What's worse than the threat of terrorist violence on English soil?
The possibility that the brains behind the plot is a mole who's
infiltrated MI5.In the year since Liz Carlyle (At Risk, 2005)
recruited Sohail Din, aka Marzipan, the student who put off law
school for a year to work undercover in a North London bookshop has
provided her with consistently good information on the shop's
mostly Arab clientele. So she's especially uneasy when he reports
suspicious behavior that may portend a suicide bombing. Can her
secret asset's judgment be trusted? She soon learns to her sorrow
that Marzipan is more trustworthy than at least one of her
Intelligence colleagues. When two attempts to capture the three
likely conspirators both come up empty, it's obvious that they've
been tipped off. And the only people who knew of both attempts are
the Counter-Terrorist elect of MI5 and MI6. Another informant
reveals the presence of an Oxford-educated sleeper in Intelligence
recruited by a dying IRA agent 15 years ago but never activated.
Appointed to root out the sleeper before he awakens, Liz begins by
asking which of the possible turncoats attended Oxford. When that
question reduces the number of suspects to five - Home Office
liaison Patrick Dobson, head of bugging and burgling Michael
Binding, globe-trotting investigator Tom Dartmouth, retired agent
Stephen Ogasawara and Liz's old friend Judith Spratt - she tries to
find out what their former teachers can say about them and what
connection each one might have to the IRA. All too soon, though,
these background questions are upstaged by a much more urgent
riddle: Where will the mole's terrorists strike, and what can Liz
and her loyal mates do to head them off?The mixture as before: slow
to start, but with whiplash control of momentum that raises your
pulse a heartbeat at a time until the climax. (Kirkus Reviews)
The second thriller from the former head of M15, featuring M15
officer Liz Carlyle.
When M15 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle learns from one of her
agents that there have been suspicious meetings in the Islamic
bookshop where he works, she feels almost instinctively that a
terrorist cell is at work.
Liz, immediately reports her findings to Charles Wetherby, her
superior at M15, and a surveillance operation is swiftly put into
place.
So when Wetherby pulls Liz off the case and tasks her to
investigate a tip that many years ago a mole was planted in one of
the branches of British Intelligence she feels distinctly
marginalised. To Liz, the likelihood of a mole seems small, but if
Wetherby is right then the potential damage to the Service itself
could be immeasurable.
In Secret Asset, the second Liz Carlyle novel, Stella Rimington
once again brings all her experience as a former Director General
of M15 to bear in a truly compelling thriller that takes the reader
into a world where no-one can be trusted and nothing is what is
seems.
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