Stella Rimington

In 2012, in a Middle Eastern souk, CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked....

In this terrifying and tautly drawn debut thriller, Stella Rimington takes us to the heart of the intelligence world. It is a place she is uniquely qualified to describe....

Liz has been transferred to counter-espionage - the hub of MI5 operations during the Cold War, which has been scaled back as anti-terrorism has gained priority. But there's plenty for her to do....

Liz Carlyle is a smart MI5 intelligence officer. When one of her agents reports suspicious meetings taking place at an Islamic bookshop, she trusts her instinct that a terrorist cell is at work....

When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani....

Liz Carlyle, a smart, impassioned MI5 intelligence officer, has always been skilled at "assessing people", and she trusts her instinct that a terrorist cell is at work at an Islamic bookshop....

An announcement is made at a meeting of the British Intelligence Joint Counter-Terrorist group: "The opposition may be about to deploy an invisible....

Following a gruelling operation in Paris, Liz Carlyle’s bosses post her to MI5’s counter-espionage desk, but they haven’t counted on the fallout from Putin’s incursions into the Ukraine....

When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American Defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle....

Liz Carlyle has been transferred to Counter-Espionage, along with her research sidekick Peggy Kingsolving. She's been assigned to stop a Russian assassination plot....

The future of the whole of the Middle East is at stake and the deadline for action is drawing ever closer....

A man lies dying in a hospital in upstate Vermont. The nurses know only that he is an academic at a nearby university, but they have been instructed to call the FBI should anyone visit their patient....

MI5 officer Liz Carlyle is posted to Northern Ireland. From the moment she lands in Belfast, danger follows. She soon discovers that the peace process in the province is precarious....

MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle learns from one of her agents that suspicious meetings have been taking place at an Islamic bookshop....

In 1988, Harry made one mistake: he took a bribe, letting a man he knew as Igor into Britain - and he’s regretted it ever since. So when he recognises Igor many years later as his newly elected MP, he knows he has to come clean....

MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle has received alarming intelligence from a source in Syria....