|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
|
Product Description
Review
Undeniably pacey - Guardian. A tense terrifying read we couldn't put down - Cosmopolitan. A wealth of persuasive detail, obviously drawn from first hand experience - Marie Claire. 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. 'The details of how MI5 conducts its business are fascinating Stella establishes a cracking pace and keeps you guessing right up until the end' Sunday Express.
Book Description
MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby, head of the Service's Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source. A Middle East peace conference is planned to take place at Gleneagles in Scotland and several heads of state will attend. The Syrians have learned that two individuals are mounting an operation to disrupt the peace conference in a way designed to be spectacular, laying the blame at Syria's door. The source claims that Syrian Intelligence will act against the pair, presumably by killing them. No one knows who they are or what they are planning to do. Are they working together? Who is controlling them? Or is the whole story a carefully laid trail of misinformation? It is Liz's job to find out. But, as she discovers, the threat is far greater than she or anyone else could have imagined. The future of the whole of the Middle East is at stake and the conference deadline is drawing ever closer.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Strange Bedfellow,
By
This review is from: Dead Line (Hardcover)
In the newest entry in one of the better contemporary spy series, highlighting the activities of Liz Carlyle and her co-workers at Britain's MI5, "Dead Line" focuses on the Mideast situation. A conference is scheduled in Scotland for talks between the heads of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran and Israel. And naturally, intelligence information indicates there will be an attempt at a violent disruption of the conference, blame to be placed on Syria.And once again it is Liz to the rescue, chasing after all sorts of clues, both*- false and true, relying more on her own instinct than on real intelligence-gathering. That is not to say that a real look at the intelligence apparatus is not provided by the author, who was the first woman to serve as Director General of MI5. MI5, MI6, and the CIA are all involved, along with various security forces, including the Secret Service, and local police guarding the Scottish resort where the meeting is to be held. Written with a sure knowledge of the subject, the plot is a lot different from the standard spy story, all to the good. The characterizations are vivid, and the prose flows, and it is recommended.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dead Line,
By
This review is from: Dead Line (Hardcover)
The book was better than average for the type. As former Director General of MI5 Stella Rimington knows her subject which always makes for a better and more credible book.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta) Amazon.com:
3.6 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews) 4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
great espionage thriller,
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dead Line (Hardcover)
M16 Agent Templeton in Cyprus reports that a contact Abboud insists Syrian deputy director of dreaded Idarat al-Mukhabarat Tibshirani believes that a London based Lebanese expatriate Sami Veshara and Chris Marcham intend to devastate the upcoming Middle East peace conference being held in Scotland. Disrupting efforts is expected by most counterterrorist groups, but what makes this allegation different is that the credit (and consequently the blame) will be given to Syria. With the leaders from the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iran participating, MI5 officer Liz Carlyle is assigned to investigate the plausibility and if affirmed who they belong to.As she follows leads, Liz fears time is running out. Clues either go nowhere or lead to more questions. She begins to revise her theory from these two nonentities to hypothesize whether the original source is using a ploy to cause some other unknown havoc although why remains out of reach. Liz knows a major incident could lead to devastating chaos in the Middle East and the end of peace negotiations for years to come. This is a great espionage thriller that readers will fully appreciate. Thirtyish Liz is at her best in her latest tale (see At Risk, Illegal Action and Secret Asset) trying to connect dots that not only do not link but add more points to the increasingly convoluted equation. Readers will join Liz as she races to prevent a disaster but by whom and why remain just outside her analysis. Harriet Klausner 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Better than the last, but...,
By T. Good "daddie-O" - Published on Amazon.com
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Dead Line (Hardcover)
...still not a thrilling spy novel. Ms. Rimington is dutifully writing in a manner that may mimic real world methodology of solving international espionage, but you've gotta toss a little something in for action. This supposed to be fiction with a hard gripping edge if you want to call it a thriller. Reads more like a case study and not the most interesting case, either. It's how she wants to write her novels and that's fine. She's said before that James Bond and all the other Hollywood spy work has given everyone false expectations as to what really goes on in the spy world, but when you are writing fiction you can let your hair down a bit and give it some action.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Something evil's in the offing at Gleneagles. Can our Liz save the day?,
By Sharon Isch - Published on Amazon.com
The head of MI6 at Britain's embassy in Cyprus has just gotten a tip from one of his most trusted agents that there will be an attempt to ruin a vitally important Middle East peace conference coming up in Scotland in just a few weeks and that it will be done in such a way that blame falls on the Syrians. A secret meeting is scheduled, but the agent is killed enroute before he can reveal anything more--like who might be behind this, what exactly is it they are planning to do, and why.All MI5 knows is that whatever it is, they must stop it. Our heroine, Liz Carlyle, is no sooner put on the case than someone tries to kill her. She survives the attempt, others do not. Meanwhile Liz learns that her mom has a new beau, which she finds worrisome, but not as worrisome as her friend Sophie's discovery that her mother, visiting from Israel, has somehow attracted the interest of a much much younger man from the Israeli embassy who is clearly not who or what he seems. Sad to say, Liz's own love life has been pretty much nonexistent lately; one of her counterparts at the American embassy is showing hints of having a more than professional interest--but could he have an ulterior motive? And what's this about his CIA colleague, who's showing signs of being in kahoots with some guy from the Israeli security service, Mossad? This fourth in the Liz Carlyle series by Stella Rimington, the former real-life head of Britain's security services, is another taut, complex and riveting read and I recommend it. Here's the series list, in chronological order: 1. At Risk, 2. Secret Asset, 3. Illegal Action, 4. Dead Line, 5. Present Danger 6. Rip Tide, 7. The Geneva Trap (due out 10/2/12) |
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
