From the former head of MI5, comes this gripping series starring Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle on the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into a new Cold War
'Rimington tells her story with the crisp authority one would expect of James Bond's M' New York Times Book ReviewRecovering from a gruelling terrorist investigation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5's counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the change of scene will give her some breathing space, but they haven't counted on Putin's increased aggression towards the West. Soon Liz is on the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War. Meanwhile, MI6 has hired Jasminder Kapoor, a controversial young civil rights lawyer, to explain issues of privacy and security to the public. But in this world of shadowy motives and secret identities, Jasminder must be extra-careful about whom she can trust .THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN, the brand-new thriller from Stella Rimington, is out now.
She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carré Wall Street Journal
Rimington, StellaDame 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 six Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.
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'Rimington tells her story with the crisp authority one would expect of James Bond's M' New York Times Book ReviewrnrnRecovering from a gruelling terrorist investigation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5's counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the change of scene will give her some breathing space, but they haven't counted on Putin's increased aggression towards the West. Soon Liz is on the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War.rn rnMeanwhile, MI6 has hired Jasminder Kapoor, a controversial young civil rights lawyer, to explain issues of privacy and security to the public. But in this world of shadowy motives and secret identities, Jasminder must be extra-careful about whom she can trust .rnrnTHE DEVIL'S BARGAIN, the brand-new thriller from Stella Rimington, is out now.
Set against the backdrop of the Russia's war in the Ukraine and the post Wikileaks climate of anti-secrecy, this is an urgent, gripping and utterly contemporary espionage thriller.
