Peut-on cesser d'être agent secret et refaire sa vie ? Tel était le plan de Robert Cope Harland quand il a quitté le service du MI 6 pour œuvrer au sein des Nations-Unies. Jusqu'au jour où, seul survivant d'un crash aérien, il est amené à chercher l'explication de cet attentat. Lui faut-il enquêter du côté des criminels de guerre responsables d'atrocités en Bosnie et du Tribunal international de La Haye pour lequel travaillait l'un de ses infortunés voisins dans l'avion ? Ou dans son passé, au sein des services secrets anglais qui semblent désormais le traquer comme un ennemi ? Sans oublier son fils, dont il ignorait jusqu'alors l'existence, celui qu'il aurait eu avec Irina, une très belle Tchèque au rôle trouble... Un récit haletant digne des meilleurs John Le Carré : Henry Porter renoue ainsi avec la plus pure tradition du roman d'espionnage qu'il fait entrer par la grande porte dans le nouveau millénaire. Vendu à plusieurs centaines de milliers d'exemplaires en Grande-Bretagne, en Italie et aux États-Unis, Une vie d'espion est l'objet d'un projet d'adaptation au cinéma par l'acteur anglais Michael Caine.
Robert HarlandSeries
This series plunges into the intricate world of espionage, where former agents seek a new life only to be pulled back into a dangerous past. The protagonist finds himself entangled in an international conspiracy, forced to unravel the truth behind a deadly attack he survived. He confronts war criminals, treacherous intelligence agencies, and unexpected personal connections that blur the lines of trust. These gripping narratives deliver high-stakes action, suspenseful twists, and profound explorations of loyalty and identity.





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Robert Cope Harland ended his career as a British spy in an Austrian hospital, after being tortured and beaten by Czech security agents in the last days of the communist regime. He was young enough then to find a new life with the Red Cross and then with the UN. Twelve years later his UN plane crashes in mysterious circumstances at La Guardia airport, New York and Harland is the only survivor. Was it sabotage, and if so, was Harland the target? It is soon clear to Harland that the answers are to be found in his past, a past which, along with its secrets and tradecraft, he has desperately tried to forget. And now the crash has thrown him back into a world of relentless intrigue and mistrust, to his youth, and a life-changing love affair... 'A taut new thriller about international espionage... Deftly orchestrating a byzantine plot and a multinational cast of characters, Porter creates a chilling global masquerade in which no one is who he (or she) pretends to be' --Vanity Fair
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Empire State
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in a spectacular set piece killing at Heathrow ...An airport employee and his family are found murdered in their council house in Uxbridge ...In New York, a fashionable Upper East Side osteopath receives two postcards showing the Empire State Building ...A group of migrant workers are brutally gunned down in Macedonia ... The quest to find the link between these apparently random events is pursued by Robert Harland - drawn back to a world he thought he'd left behind with a dual role for the UN and MI6.
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Brandebourg
- 565 pages
- 20 hours of reading
Il n'y a pas d'alternative, et peut-être même pas d'issue. Si je veux extraire mon frère Konrad des griffes de la Stasi, il me faut accepter un jeu dangereux : reprendre du service comme espion allemand tout en pactisant avec les services secrets britanniques et le KGB. Ruser constamment, tromper les plus habiles des manipulateurs. C'est ma seule chance de survie dans cette RDA asphyxiée de 1989.
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The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations inthe world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers, the torture chambers in the Stasi jail, the hundreds of thousands of informers could do nothing to prevent the rebellion that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.It is in the context of these last few paranoid weeks of the Communistworld, when a population that had been oppressed for nearly sixty yearsfound the will to rise up, that this outstanding thriller is set. Its hero is DrRudolf Rosenharte, an academic from Dresden and agent for MI6; hiscontroller is Robert Harland, from A SPY'S LIFE and EMPIRE STATE.When Rosenharte's security is compromised he is faced with a starkchoice: to defect to the West, leaving his beloved family to the mercies ofthe Stasi, or return to East Germany to carry out a dangerous assignmentunder the Stasi's suspicious eye...