Stella Rimington. (2007). Secret Asset: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Stella Rimington. 2007. Secret Asset: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Stella Rimington, Secret Asset: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.

Stella Rimington. Secret Asset: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.

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   • bioText: Stella Rimington joined MI5 in 1965 and during her thirty-year career she worked in all the main fields of the Service's responsibilities—counter-subversion, counter-espionage, and counter-terrorism—and successively became Director of all three branches. Appointed Director-General of MI5 in 1992, she was the first woman to hold the post and the first Director-General whose name was publicly announced on appointment. Following her retirement from MI5 in 1996, she became a Non-Executive Director of Marks and Spencer and published her autobiography, Open Secret, in the UK.
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Liz Carlyle, the quick, passionate intelligence officer of Britain's MI5, returns to defuse a terrorist plot in this high-stakes, high-tension tale of international espionage. When it appears a “secret asset”—a sleeper spy—has infiltrated British Intelligence, the Director of Counter-Terrorism assigns Liz Carlyle to dig up the mole. The spy, possibly a former IRA operative now working with British-born Al Qaeda sympathizers, has one thing on his (or her?) mind: total devastation. With a major attack looming, Liz must trust her instincts and move fast. But this assignment is deadly, and suddenly she feels like she has wandered into a wilderness of mirrors, where nothing is what is seems and no-one can be trusted.

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     "Stella Rimington bids to join the ranks of such secret agent-authors as W. Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, [and] John le Carré."--The Wall Street Journal"Welcome a new queen of the genre. . . . Stella Rimington, who was the first female director of MI-5, knows of what she writes."--The Washington Times "Intelligent, vivid . . . [with] rich insider detail." --The Plain Dealer "Brisk pacing and intelligent attention to detail make this thriller one of the better spy stories of recent times."

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     June 4, 2007
     How smart of Random House Audio to hire as a reader noted British stage and television actress Fielding, whose prowess brings to life Rimington's own stint as director of the British spy outfit called MI5. (If Remington were brought to the screen, Judi Dench would play her as she plays M in the recent James Bond movies.) With perfect British reserve, Fielding catches the hard-driving Liz Carlyle-Rimington's alter ego-without sacrificing any of Carlyle's energy or excitement. Fielding does the same cool job on all the other characters, from an Islamic bookseller nicknamed Marzipan (no jokes about him being a sweet guy: he's not) to Liz's young assistant, Peggy Kinsolving. This well-edited abridgment cleverly removes some of the book's talkier sections. The result is a perfect choice for listeners who love political thrillers but have only a limited time to enjoy them. A simultaneous release with the Knopf hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 30).

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     May 1, 2007
     Via her bright, lonely, and diligent protagonist, the author makes effective use of her professional knowledge as the former director general of Britain's security service (MI5) in this complex search for a mole. Counterintelligence usually requires investigators to trudge through acres of dossiers, and the resultant near weariness from examining potentially relevant detail may challenge some readers of Rimington's second Liz Carlyle spy novel (after "At Risk"). Something of a triple helix, the ingenious no-sex plot entwines strands of Irish Republican Army leftovers, disaffected spies, and Islamic terrorists. The combination of the false leads, side trips, and many characters, each described in some detail, all serve to confuse Liz, MI5, and possibly the nonattentive reader. Rimington's sense of place is strong and her denouement literally and figuratively accidental. Her writing style is competent, replete with sartorial descriptions, very British notation of social class differences, and mention of the vanity and supercilious attitudes of male colleagues, all of which could be pertinent in an investigation. Recommended for all public libraries. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 2/1/07.]Jonathan Pearce, California State Univ., Stanislaus

     Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     April 30, 2007
     After four months’ convalescent leave, MI5 spy Liz Carlyle, returning from her debut in Rimington’s At Risk, confers with her agent Marzipan, an Islamic bookshop clerk who has discovered a probable terror plot in the making. Soon after, Liz is charged with finding an IRA mole within the ranks of MI5. With the aid of fresh-faced co-worker Peggy Kinsolving, Liz goes about the task of ferreting out the mole, despite disappointment at being taken off the terror case, which she can’t quite let go—with, it turns out, good reason. Much is made of the authenticity of Rimington’s tradecraft (she was the first female head of MI5 in real life), and rightly so. But lots of writers get the details right, and for many readers, Rimington’s ratio of action to personal detail will seem skewed: every character, no matter how minor, gets heavily profiled, and it slows things down. Still, those interested in old school British intelligence thrillers will find much to like in the smart, enterprising Carlyle.

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