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    Breaking Cover
    Breaking Cover
    Breaking Cover
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    Breaking Cover

    By Stella Rimington

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    '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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJun 30, 2016
    ISBN9781408859728
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    Stella Rimington

    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 six Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.

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    • 4/5
      This was an enjoyable read if you can accept that Jasminder, a university lecturer, civil liberties lawyer, immigration adviser, and speaker on government surveillance would be a good choice for or even consider applying for the role of press liaison for MI6. Then you have to believe in her rapid transformation into a morally dubious and compromised girlfriend, who made one stupid decision after another.On the plus side, I found the plot coherent and the other characters fortunately competent and honourable (apart from their rather unlikely overwhelming sympathy for "poor" Jasminder).On to instalment #10.
    • 4/5
      As always the inner workings of the security services have an authentic feel to them and help to compensate for some of the holes in the plot. The plot in general is very current being about Russian attempts to destabilise the west and attacks on ex-pat dissidents living there, but the two core characters at the heart of the plot seem unlikely to have fallen for the stories they were peddled.
    • 3/5
      I think Stella Rimington has reached the point where she's cranking them out too quickly. I began reading her in the middle of the Liz Carlyle series, went back to the beginning for the next 3 or 4, then grabbed her last one (9th?) when it became available at our library. Since the beginning, her novels have become progressively worse, which is a relative term since they're all at least pretty good. The writing is a bit less polished in each, the dialogue a little more stilted, the characters less colorful, and the plots more banal. Breaking Cover has some good points (typically good descriptions of tradecraft, for example, although even this is becoming less common). However, unless you've read all the preceding books in the series you'd be unaware of the personalities and capabilities of the major characters. The major problem I had with Breaking Cover was with the plot. In general, a thriller about a couple Russian 'illegal' agents loose in London and being chased by a group of crackerjack Brit intelligence specialists ought to be a winner, In this case, though, if you haven't figured it all out before mid-book and you haven't wondered why the author would portray her key players acting so stupidly/naively (or wondering how she could think her readers wouldn't notice it), I don't know what to say. Breaking Cover is readable but certainly not up to the standards of the early novels in this series. If you really want to get a feel for the characters and enjoy plots that are well-developed, begin at the beginning.
    • 5/5
      A great spy story, with a sad ending.
    • 3/5
      Few people have a stronger claim to know the ins and outs of counter terrorism and counter espionage work than Dame Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5, and she has applied that insight in eight previous novels featuring her engaging heroine Liz Carlyle. She understands the international context and the political intriguing between the different intelligence agencies at home and the constant jockeying for preferential position between the allies.This latest novel opens just after the appointment of a new ‘C” (head of MI6) who is keen to improve the public image of the organisation at a time when people are protesting against its perceived powers to snoop on just about anyone. As part of this process he decides to appoint a new Director of Communications to oversee the agency’s relationship with the media. This move is not welcomed by some of the more traditional senior staff, and they are upset further when the appointment is given to Jasminder Kapoor, a prominent human rights lawyer who has frequently striven to hold the service to account over perceived infractions of citizen’s rights to privacy. Ms Kapoor is herself criticised by many of her erstwhile adherents, who fear that she may have ‘sold out’ to the establishment. Against this background of organisational upheaval, Liz Carlyle and her colleagues receive information from a source in Tallinn about a Russian operation against Britain, seeking to infiltrate MI6. Investigations begin.The operational scenes appear very plausible (as far as I can tell), and Liz Carlyle and her deputy, Peggy Kingsolving, are as engaging and credible as ever. The plot does, however, seem rather weak, revolving as it does on one character’s immense naiveté that stretched my credibility just that little bit too far.

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