Stella Rimington, Author . Knopf $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4370-5
The first woman director general of Britain's MI5, Rimington speaks smartly about workplace issues while ratcheting the tension high in her authoritative debut thriller. Enter Liz Carlyle, an agent-runner with a taste for vintage clothes; her...
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Stella Rimington, Author . Knopf $24.95 (319p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4395-8
After four months’ convalescent leave, MI5 spy Liz Carlyle, returning from her debut in Rimington’s At Risk, confers with her agent Marzipan, an Islamic bookshop clerk who has discovered a probable terror plot in the making. Soon after,...
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Stella Rimington, Author . Knopf $23.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-307-26885-3
MI5 officer Liz Carlyle tries to make the best of it after she's unwillingly transferred from counterterrorism to counterespionage in Rimington's excellent third novel (after Secret Asset
). Assigned to a case involving a rich Moscow...
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Stella Rimington, Knopf, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-27254-6
In Rimington’s fine fourth spy thriller to feature MI5 officer Liz Carlyle (after Illegal Asset), the 35-year-old counterespionage agent takes the lead in unraveling disturbing intelligence received from MI6 regarding a plot to disrupt an upcoming...
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Stella Rimington. Bloomsbury, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-60819-489-6
In Rimington's thought-provoking fifth thriller featuring MI5 agent Liz Carlyle (after Dead Line), Liz, MI5's liaison with French intelligence, interviews 23-year-old Amir Khan, a British citizen from Birmingham, who was captured by a French naval...
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Stella Rimington. Bloomsbury, $24 (352p) ISBN 978-1-62040-616-8
A paucity of action mars former MI5 director Rimington’s disappointing eighth novel featuring British intelligence officer Liz Carlyle (after 2012’s The Geneva Trap). Carlyle and her MI5 colleagues closely monitor a shipment of guns and bombs from...
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Stella Rimington. Bloomsbury, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-63286-526-7
At the start of Rimington’s intermittently compelling ninth novel featuring British MI5 agent Liz Carlyle (after 2014’s Close Call), Jasminder Kapoor, a thoughtful advocate for greater transparency by security services, is mugged in London. She’s...
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Stella Rimington. Bloomsbury, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63286-797-1
The visit of a suspected Russian spy to a patient in a Vermont hospice kicks off Rimington’s fascinating 10th Liz Carlyle novel (after 2016’s Breaking Cover). Alerted by the FBI, MI5 agent Carlyle in the U.K. connects the incident to a shady private
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Stella Rimington. Bloomsbury, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-60819-872-6
Near the start of Rimington’s compelling seventh Liz Carlyle novel (after 2011’s Rip Tide), a Russian agent, Alexander Petrov, tells a British agent he approaches in a Swiss tennis club that he wants a meeting with “Lees Carlisle.” Liz, who barely...
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Stella Rimington, Author, Emma Fielding, Read by Random House Audio Assets $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-4377-7
How smart of Random House Audio to hire as a reader noted British stage and television actress Fielding, whose prowess brings to life Rimington's own stint as director of the British spy outfit called MI5. (If Remington were brought to the screen,...
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