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With her debut novel, At Risk, Stella Rimington established herself as a top-notch thriller writer, and introduced us to Liz Carlyle—a smart, impassioned MI5 intelligence officer whose talents and ambitions are counterbalanced by an abiding awareness of her job’s moral complexities. In Secret Asset, we are plunged back into her high-stakes, high-tension world.
Liz has always been particularly skilled at “assessing people,” and when one of her agents reports suspicious meetings taking place at an Islamic bookshop, she trusts her instinct that a terrorist cell is at work. Her boss, Charles Wetherby, Director of Counter-Terrorism, knows to trust Liz’s instincts as well: he immediately puts a surveillance operation into place.
So Liz is surprised when Wetherby suddenly takes her off the case. And she’s shocked to hear why: Wetherby has received a tip-off that a mole—a “secret asset”—has been planted in one of the branches of British Intelligence. If this is true, the potential damage to the Service is immeasurable. As her colleagues work to avert an impending terrorist strike, Liz is charged with the momentous task of uncovering and exposing the mole before it’s too late.
As she did in At Risk, Stella Rimington once again brings all her experience as the first woman Director General of MI5 to bear in a heart-stopping thriller that takes us deep into a “wilderness of mirrors” where nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted.
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Praise for "At Risk": " This is something very rare: the spy novel that prizes authenticity over fabrication." - "Mail on Sunday" " Tense and terrifying." - "Cosmopolitan" " A cracking good thriller" - Lynn Barber, "Observer" " Intelligent -- Undeniably pacy" - "Guardian" " Rimington makes adroit use of her expertise as former MI5 chief" - "Sunday Times" " The Secret Service background is exceedingly convincing" - "Evening Standard" " First class" - Douglas Hurd," New Statesman" Praise for Stella Rimington' s autobiography "Open Secret": " The story of MI5' s transformation is fascinating. So too is Rimington' s account of her rise in what was very definitely a man' s world." -- "Guardian" " She writes in a refreshingly self-deprecating style of juggling the roles of single parent and chief ' spook' ." -- "Independent on Sunday" " Open Secret is a fascinating account not only of Stella Rimington' s various roles in the evolving Security Services, but also of the strains on a single mother as she struggles to compartmentalize a life that is necessarily unpredictable, stressful and shrouded in secrecy." -- "Time Out"
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The second thriller from the former head of MI5, featuring MI5 officer Liz Carlyle
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1400043956
- ISBN 13 9781400043958
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages319
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