A network of unknownsoldiers. An enemy with nothing tolose. The War on Terror iscoming home.
Als ein Frachtschiff vor der somalischen Küste von Piraten überfallen wird, wird einer der Angreifer, als ein in Großbritannien geborener Pakistani identifiziert. In London klingeln die Alarmglocken. Wie und warum konnte ein junger, britischer Muslime aus einer wohlhabenden Familie, mit einer Kalaschnikow bewaffnet auf einem Piratenschiff im indischen Ozean enden? Nachdem ein, mit dem Fall betrauter, verdeckter Ermittler tot in Athen aufgefunden wird, sieht es so aus, als sei die Piraterie noch das geringste Problem des Secret Service. Liz und ihr Team müssen die Verbindung zwischen Pakistan, Griechenland und Somalia entschlüsseln und sich ganz auf ihren Verstand, und den gezielte Einsatz von Gewalt, verlassen, um die Wahrheit aufzudecken.
To catch an enemy with nothing to lose, MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle must venture into dangerous waters.When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family in Birmingham and end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with a Kalashnikov.After an undercover operative connected to the case turns up dead in the shipping office of an NGO in Athens it looks like piracy may be the least of the Service's problems. Liz and her team must unravel the connections between Pakistan, Greece and Somalia, relying on their wits - and the judicious use of force - to get to the truth. And they don't have long, as trouble is brewing closer to home: the kind of explosive trouble that MI5 could do without ...
In this tense and heart-stopping spy thriller, the secrets are deep, the stakes are high and the enemy is always just out of sight...THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN, the brand-new thriller from Stella Rimington, is out now.
She provides lots of detail of intelligence work used to counter today's terrorists that seems real - and intriguing Financial Times
Dame 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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To catch an enemy with nothing to lose, MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle must venture into dangerous waters.
When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family in Birmingham and end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with a Kalashnikov.
After an undercover operative connected to the case turns up dead in the shipping office of an NGO in Athens it looks like piracy may be the least of the Service's problems. Liz and her team must unravel the connections between Pakistan, Greece and Somalia, relying on their wits - and the judicious use of force - to get to the truth. And they don't have long, as trouble is brewing closer to home: the kind of explosive trouble that MI5 could do without ...
In this tense and heart-stopping spy thriller, the secrets are deep, the stakes are high and the enemy is always just out of sight...
THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN, the brand-new thriller from Stella Rimington, is out now.
Written by the former head of MI5, Rip Tide stars Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle
A British born Muslim has been implicated in an attack on a cargo ship off the coast of Somalia. Can Liz Carlyle uncover how and why this wealthy young man could end up orchestrating such an attack?
