Bloomsbury presents Breaking Cover, the ninth book in the Agent Liz Carlyle series by Stella Rimington, read by Amy Noble
'Rimington tells her story with the crisp authority one would expect of James Bond's M' New York Times Book Review
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.

Portrait

Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She wrote both the Liz Carlyle and Manon Tyler series and her autobiography. She lived in London and Norfolk.