Breaking Cover
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Remove from wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Adding to library failed
Please try again
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 30 days of Standard free
£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Breaking Cover
Narrated by:
Amy Noble
Buy Now for £15.30
-
Narrated by:
-
Amy Noble
-
By:
-
Stella Rimington
Recovering from a gruelling terrorist investigation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5’s counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the change of scene will give her some breathing space, but they haven’t counted on Putin’s increased aggression towards the West. Soon Liz is on the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War.
Meanwhile, MI6 has hired Jasminder Kapoor, a controversial young civil rights lawyer, to explain issues of privacy and security to the public. But in this world of shadowy motives and secret identities, Jasminder must be extra-careful about whom she can trust …
THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN, the brand-new thriller from Stella Rimington, is out now.©2016 Stella Rimington (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_c
Continue the series
Critic reviews
She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carré
A wealth of persuasive detail, obviously drawn from first-hand experience
This is something rare: the spy novel that prizes authenticity over fabrication that is true to the character and spirit of intelligence work
For a pacy page-turner, she's a safe bet . . . Rimington is particularly strong in her accounts of procedure, unsurprisingly, given her past role as Head of MI5
Faster than Le Carré, she creates the same sense of real characters struggling with real problems
Liz Carlyle is an MI5 agent with the traditional thriller-heroine mix of dysfunctional personal life and steely ambition
Just like her heroine Liz, Stella Rimington was a woman in a mainly man’s world as the head of MI5 and this lends her novel enormous credibility right through to the nail-biting final (Joanna Czechowska on Close Call )
This spy story is as authentic as it could be … Although high drama is tightly limited, there is enough action (and sympathy for targeted agents) to make for a highly satisfying plot
No reviews yet