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Description
The Arab Spring has swept through the Middle East and Liz Carlyle and her compatriots in the Thames House's counter-espionage division are racing to investigate arms deals in Yemen. There's a UN embargo forbidding any member country from supplying arms to either side in the uprisings, but Andy Bokus, head of the CIA's London Station, has evidence that the weapons being smuggled into Yemen are not only being sold to both sides, but are coming from a connection in the UK-a highly embarrassing black mark on the government and, if true, full of disastrous consequences.
British-American cooperation widens as Liz teams up with her old rival Bruno McKay, MI6's Head of Station in Paris, and Isobel Florian of the French domestic service, the DCRI, to trail and trap the elusive weapons dealer. The evidence points to a former French intelligence officer, Antoine Milraud, who leads them all on a mad chase across Europe until investigators witness him passing something to an elegantly dressed, very mysterious man.
When Milraud is caught and informs on his fellow conspirators, Liz finds herself embroiled in a larger, potentially explosive situation that twists all the way back to what she feared most-that the arms are being sold through the UK, and the mysterious man is closer and more capable of brutal violence than she ever could have imagined.
Product details
| Published | Aug 12 2014 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781620406175 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Series | A Liz Carlyle Thriller |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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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
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A wealth of persuasive detail, obviously drawn from first-hand experience
Marie Claire
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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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For a pacy page-turner, she's a safe bet . . . Rimington is particularly strong in her accounts of procedure, unsurprisingly, given her past role as Head of MI5
Independent
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Faster than Le Carré, she creates the same sense of real characters struggling with real problems
John Sandford
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Rimington's best work demonstrates a flair for narrative, with a sense of authenticity and an insider's grasp on the pressing issues of the day
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