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Former head of MI5 Stella Rimington brings the high-stakes world of intelligence to life in AT RISK - the first novel in her bestselling and much-loved series featuring MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle.
For MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle the nagging complications of her private life are quickly forgotten at Monday's Counter-Terrorist meeting. An invisible may have entered mainland Britain. An 'invisible' is a terrorist who is an ethnic native of the target country, who can cross its borders unchecked and move about unnoticed - the ultimate nightmare. For Liz this signals the start of an operation that will test her to the limit. Who or what is the target? Where and who is the invisible? With each passing hour the danger increases. But as she desperately sifts the incoming intelligence and analyses the reports from her agents she finally realises that it is her ability to get inside her enemy's head that is the only hope of averting disaster.Customer Reviews
Rated 5 starsWrites Well and Can Run an Intelligence Agency, Too!
Who'd have thought that the leader of one of the free world's top spy agencies could also write excellent suspense thrillers? There's not a wrong note in Stella Rimington's novels. The protagonist, agent-runner Liz Carlyle, will remind you of Helen Mirren's Jane Tennison: smart, driven, discriminated against by the "boys," and prone to dead-end relationships. But boy (or girl), you just can't put this book down. Read them...
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Rated 5 starsSmart intelligence procedural makes a good read
Thirty-four-year-old Liz Carlyle, the protagonist of Stella Rimington's debut novel, is an intelligence officer with MI5, Britain's Secret Service. At Risk finds Liz heading up an investigation into the possible infiltration of Britain by an "invisible," a terrorist who is or can pass as English and so not arouse suspicion: a nightmare, in other words. Rimington leads readers through the investigation, following Liz as she...
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Rated 5 starsthriller....page turner.....read it
I read this book, as many of the books that I read, because I "heard" that it was good. This one is. It is a "spy thriller" that keeps you guessing until the last page. The pace is fast... One thing that I enjoyed is that I did not feel like a fool for not seeing the end....o.k.....other readers might have caught on before I did, but, I felt that Ms. Remington was honest with her readers, and let us try to unravel the...
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Rated 5 starsGreat First Novel
When the ex-head of Britain's MI5 desides to write a mystery novel you's expect it to be both technically accurate and filled with examples of well constructed tradecraft. What you might not expect is that the crafting of her characters would be so well developed and the writing so well handled. The story revolves around a prospective terrorist action that is undefined but which is believed to be done by an 'invisible',...
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Rated 5 starsexciting counter-terrorist espionage thriller
At Thames House, the Joint Counter-Terrorist Group employees learn that the al-Safa organization of the Islamic Terror Syndicate is planting an "Invisible". Pakistan cooperates and the Immigration Office combs the lists for possible suspects. However, the M-15 and M-16 attendees know how difficult to uncover an Invisible is as these terrorists are a special breed being a native of the host nation. An agent just in from...
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