Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher. For letting me review this book.
This book sheds light on the immigrant crisis .
It is a fast paced thriller

The best aspect of Firefly by Porter is the harrowing description of refugees escaping from the. Middle East and their experiences as migrants attempting to enter Europe. That said, as a 13 year old, Firefly’s intelligence and resourcefulness is incredible and that is one of the flaws in the book. It is simply not to be believed, unless one can imagine him as a superhero from Marvel. In addition, Samson, the MI6 contractor hired to find him to retrieve information that Firefly has recorded on his cell phone concerning terror activities has a pretty flat character as a gambler on horse racing. The book is too long and the too numerous misses where Samson just fails to encounter Firefly are exasperating to the reader. I received this book from Netgalley.

I'm a fan of Henry Porter and this book looks like it might have been a great one, but I was forced to give up halfway through. The .pdf provided by the publisher through NetGalley was such a mess and reading it became such an unpleasant experience that I simple refused to go on. Random line breaks, paragraphing frequently missing altogether, time breaks running together, and other grotesque formatting errors made the narrative all but incomprehensible. Circulating such a carelessly generated ARC is a gesture of disrespect by the publisher to both readers and the author. This publisher should be ashamed of how little effort it put out to support this writer, but sadly it probably doesn't much care. There's always another writer and another book, isn't there?

I found the novel to be incredibly boring. I liked the author's previous novel, but this one was just not interesting.

Heartbreaking, thrilling, maddening, exciting. Firefly gave me so much emotion and held my attention with every page. It's very rare these days that I finish a book in one sitting but I couldn't put this book down. There were a few pacing issues in my opinion, but not too often.

An action story that moves at a good pace. Good story line that flows. And keeps you interested. If you like this genre you will like this book.

Porter has constructed an imaginative and entertaining thriller in the genre of LeCarre. Well constructed and worth the read.

Shedding some light on the immigration crisis from the middle East, this story centers around a young boy with ISIS secrets and the secret agent tasked with finding him before the bad guys do. There wasn't much to the writing on an emotional level but my interest was maintained without it.

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