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Illegal action by Stella Rimington.
Record details
- ISBN: 0307268853 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780307268853
- Physical Description: p. cm.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Great Britain: Hutchinson, 2007. |
| Summary, etc.: | Transfered to counter-espionage operations, MI5 agent Liz Carlyle learns of a Russian government plot against Nikita Brunovsky, a Russian oligarch living in Britain and a vocal opponent of Putin, and is given the task of stopping the assassination. |
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| Subject: | Women intelligence officers > Fiction. Russians > England > London > Fiction. Spies > England > London > Fiction. London (England) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. Spy stories. |
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Author Notes
Illegal Action
Stella Rimington joined Britain's Security Service (MI5) in 1969. During her nearly 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 nonexecutive director of Marks & Spencer and published her autobiography, Open Secret, in the United Kingdom. She is also the author ofthree previous novels: At Risk, Secret Asset and Illegal Action . Rimington lives in London.
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