White Hot Silence

- Henry Porter is frequently described as the heir to John le Carré and is a bestseller in the UK. After Porter's nearly decade-long hiatus from fiction writing, the Mysterious Press published his 2018 novel, Firefly, which was praised as Porter's "best book yet" (The Times, UK).

- White Hot Silence is the hotly anticipated sequel to Firefly, and it once again features the charismatic Paul Samson, a former MI6 agent with a particular genius at tracking missing persons.

- Porter's novels have a political timeliness and sophistication that speak to his long career as a political columnist/writer, previously for the Observer and now for the Hive, but they still manage to be high stakes and suspenseful in their plotting.

- Like Firefly, White Hot Silence engages poignantly with the refugee crisis in Europe. It captures the experience of Anastasia, a Greek aid worker who has been abducted due to information that her husband, a former Kurdish soldier, holds. Anastasia's husband is unable to come to her aid because he has been detained by US authorities in the wake of increased surveillance on Muslims entering and exiting the country. - Porter won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Brandenburg Gate, which was also named an Economist best book of the year, and was again a finalist for the Steel Dagger for The Bell Ringers and Empire State. - Grove Atlantic has previously published Porter's Firefly on the Mysterious Press list and The Bell Ringers and Brandenburg Gate on the Atlantic Monthly crime list.