Present Danger - Hardcover

Rimington, Stella

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847249949 ISBN 13: 9781847249944

Publisher: Quercus Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has just been despatched to Northern Ireland. It's a promotion, and she'll be running agents - her favourite activity - but it also means being separated from Charles Wetherby, her old boss, recently widowed and a very close friend. Attachments in the Intelligence Services are not encouraged: it seems her superiors know more about Liz's life than she thinks. In Belfast, Liz and her team are monitoring the brutal breakaway Republican groups who never accepted the peace process and want to continue their 'war'. Intelligence is focused on the shady Fraternity, with links to drug-running, arms-dealing and organised crime. With some help from Special Branch and a volunteer informant who seems to be legit, the Fraternity's leader is identified as a cold, calculating and ruthless American, hijacking the Cause for his own financial ends. It is a perilous group to become involved with. Especially if your informant turns tail...

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 Inside Flap

When MI5 officer Liz Carlyle is posted to Northern Ireland, her heart sinks at the thought of working in a backwater. From the moment she arrives in Belfast danger follows and she soon discovers that the peace process in the province is precarious.
Then a source reports strange activity at a house on the Irish Sea owned by The Fraternity, an organisation Liz suspects of being a front for renegade former IRA men. Its head is Seamus Piggott, an Irish-American with a gun-running past. Then another informant reports that a plot is being hatched against the security forces. Liz and her colleague Dave Armstrong suspect Piggott is involved, along with a former French Intelligence officer.
Travelling to Paris, Liz pursues this connection with her counterpart in French Intelligence. While she is away, Dave Armstrong decides to take matter into his own hands. When Dave goes missing, Liz fears the worst, especially when she discovers that the obvious suspects have all also disappeared.
The latest in Stella Rimington's series of spy novels, Present Danger is a compulsive thriller filled with action and suspense.

Edition details

• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847249949
• ISBN 13: 9781847249944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384