Secret Asset

Liz Carlyle, the quick, passionate intelligence officer of Britain's MI5, returns to defuse a terrorist plot in this high-stakes, high-tension tale of international espionage. When it appears a "secret asset"--a sleeper spy--has infiltrated British Intelligence, the Director of Counter-Terrorism assigns Liz Carlyle to dig up the mole. The spy, possibly a former IRA operative now working with British-born Al Qaeda sympathizers, has one thing on his (or her?) mind: total devastation. With a major attack looming, Liz must trust her instincts and move fast. But this assignment is deadly, and suddenly she feels like she has wandered into a wilderness of mirrors, where nothing is what is seems and no-one can be trusted.

Author: Stella Rimington
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 05/06/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781400079827
ISBN10: 1400079829
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Espionage
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | International Crime & Mystery
- Fiction | Action & Adventure

About the Author
Stella Rimington joined MI5 in 1965 and during her thirty-year career she worked in all the main fields of the Service's responsibilities--counter-subversion, counter-espionage, and counter-terrorism--and successively became Director of all three branches. Appointed Director-General of MI5 in 1992, she was the first woman to hold the post and the first Director-General whose name was publicly announced on appointment. Following her retirement from MI5 in 1996, she became a Non-Executive Director of Marks and Spencer and published her autobiography, Open Secret, in the UK.