At Risk (Audio)
ISBN:
9780739318423 (073931842X)
Publish date: January 11th 2005
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
Series: Liz Carlyle (#1)
"At Risk" is the debut thriller by Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5. I didn't have high hopes of "At Risk" but I picked it up because I was curious to see how a woman with twenty-six years in the service would portray the counter-intelligence world of MI5. I've just bought the next t...
A solid spy thriller. It lacks the psychological depth of a Le Carré novel, but does a great job of moving the plot forward at a brisk pace.
The first novel from former MI5 boss, Stella Rimington, is, as one might expect, a thriller about a terrorist bomb-plot. Tightly plotted with a complex jigsaw puzzle of intersecting events and characters, it is packed with cliff-hangers. Liz Carlyle, a female MI5 operative struggles to track down th...