Close Call: A Liz Carlyle Novel

Състояние: Добро
Забележка: Използвана, здрави корици, захабен външен вид.
Издателство: Bloomsbury Publishing
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 200
Дебелина (мм): 22
Корици: Меки

Liz Carlyle and MJ5 have been charged w ith the task of watching the international under-the-counter arms trade - a trade that has been booming in the wake of the Arab Spring. When a CIA agent is attacked in a Middle Eastern souk and MI 5 learns of an arms deal scheduled to take place in Western Europe, Liz’s team find themselves on a mission to intercept illegal weapons before they get into the wrong hands.

As the clock counts down, Liz must set out on a manhunt that leads her to Paris, to Berlin, and into her ow n long-forgotten past. A past buried so deep that she never thought it would resurface...

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‘She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carré’
Wall Street Journal

‘Liz Carlyle remains one of the most interesting characters in the male-dominated world of the spy thriller’
Daily Express

‘This is something rare: the spy novel that prizes authenticity over fabrication, that is true to the character and spirit of intelligence work’
Mail on Sunday

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A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

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 has written her autobiography and eight Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.