Stella Rimington

Illegal Action

(Liz Carlyle 3)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle learns of a Russian government plot to kill super-rich Nikita Brunovsky - a man who openly criticises the Putin regime from his London base - it's a race against time to track down the killer. How the man is to be silenced is unclear, and Liz must work fast to protect him.

Produktdetails

• Liz Carlyle
• Verlag: Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 591566
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 111mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9780099502135
• ISBN-10: 0099502135
• Artikelnr.: 24426462

Autorenporträt

Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1965 and was appointed Director-General 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. At Risk and Secret Asset, the first two Liz Carlyle novels, are available in Arrow.

Rezensionen

Rimington's plot, as one should expect from a former head of MI5, bristles with subterfuge and splices in allusions to Litvinenko's poisoning to give Illegal Action a contemporary feel . . . Gripping . . . Carlyle, in her third outing, has depth and tenacity Financial Times