Dead Line - Softcover

Rimington, Stella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184724789X ISBN 13: 9781847247896

Publisher: Quercus, 2009

Synopsis

Top notch espionage thriller written by the Service's former Director General, Stella Rimington.

'Cracking pace . . . the details of how MI5 conducts its business are fascinating' Sunday Express

'A wealth of persuasive detail drawn from first-hand experience' Marie Claire

MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is called to an urgent meeting with her boss, head of the Service's Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source.

A Middle East peace conference is planned to take place at Gleneagles in Scotland and several heads of state are coming. The Syrians have learned that two individuals are preparing to disrupt the peace conference in a way designed to be spectacular, laying the blame at Syria's door. The source claims that Syrian Intelligence is going to kill them first.

No one knows who they are or what they are planning to do. Are they working together? Who is controlling them? Or is the whole story a carefully laid trail of misinformation?

It is Liz's job to find out. But, as she discovers, the threat is far greater than she or anyone else could have imagined.

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About this title

About the Author

Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and three Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.

From the Back Cover

A security nightmare for Liz Carlyle.
A Middle East peace conference is taking place at Gleneagles in Scotland. Attending it, amid tight security, will be some of the world's most important heads of state. Tension mounts when a highly placed source inside Syrian Intelligence claims that two individuals are planning to devastate the conference, placing the blame on Syria.
The Syrians, ignoring every known protocol, are intent upon hunting down and killing the saboteurs, on British soil if necessary, with no concern to collateral damage.
With the future of the whole of the Middle East at stake, Liz Carlyle must find her way through a web of lies and misinformation in order to prevent catastrophe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Quercus
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184724789X
• ISBN 13: 9781847247896
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384