The Old Enemy

De: Henry Porter

Narrado por: Matt Addis

Paul Samson is living in London and picking up some extra work for a private security company when he is almost killed by a thuggish assassin while tailing a mysterious and gifted young employee of a powerful environmental NGO. The murder of legendary spy Robert Harland, the poisoning of billionaire philanthropist Denis Hisami with a neurotoxin in the United States House of Representatives, and a second attempt on Samson's own life send him on the run to Estonia to figure out who is trying to kill him, and why.

Anastasia leaves her comatose husband, Denis, in the US to join Samson in Estonia and help him get to the bottom of things. Soon it becomes clear that Denis and Harland were running an investigation into a spectral former Stasi agent and her sprawling network of assets across industry and government in the US and the UK when they were attacked. Samson and Anastasia must tap into their research and expose the spymaster before any more people are killed or agencies compromised.

An astonishing and timely thriller examining the penetration of Russian assets into all levels of western life, The Old Enemy is a complex, breathtaking race against time from "one of our most accomplished thriller writers," (Financial Times).

©2021 Henry Porter (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Great Yarn

The Paul Samson character is a wonderful creation. Hopefully we’ll meet him again after these first three books. I don’t usually get hooked with series, but this is an exceptional protagonist in the hands of a very good story teller and writer.

careless coaching of readers

in all of these expensive audio books great attention is paid to technical sound, but always little attention to content. this one is no exception. the names of the principal characters should be pronounced AnasTASia not AnastasIA and the male French name Denis is DAYni, not phony French DeNIS. 30 seconds on Google would tell you this. readers are rarely sophisticated enough to pronounce many basic words correctly and nobody producing seems any better. chapter headings seem done by AI in all. they are either lazily labeled tracks, so the chapter numbers are always off, or in this case nobody listened to the word Epilogue and it became chapter 38. untouched by human hands.