· Henry Porter is frequently described as the heir to John le Carré and is a massive bestseller in the UK. After Porter's nearly decade-long hiatus from fiction writing, Grove published his 2018 novel, Firefly , his 2019 novel, White Hot Silence , which was deemed "thriller writing at its best," ( Financial Times ), and his 2021 novel The Old Enemy . · Empire State is one of three Porter backlist titles recently acquired by Grove, and the second that we will be reissuing. · Porter's novels have a political timeliness and sophistication that speak to his long career as a political columnist/writer, for the Observer and Vanity Fair /the Hive , but they still manage to be high stakes and suspenseful in their plotting. · A bestselling author in the UK, 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 and White Hot Silence on the Mysterious Press list, and The Old Enemy, The Bell Ringers and Brandenburg Gate on the Atlantic Monthly crime list. Empire State will join Henry Porter's backlist on the Atlantic Monthly Press list.