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Oct 4, 2024 1:20 AM

Author:Stella Rimington

At Risk

Former head of MI5 Stella Rimington brings the high-stakes world of intelligence to life in AT RISK – the first novel in her bestselling and much-loved series featuring MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle.

For MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle the nagging complications of her private life are quickly forgotten at Monday’s Counter-Terrorist meeting. An invisible may have entered mainland Britain.

An ‘invisible’ is a terrorist who is an ethnic native of the target country, who can cross its borders unchecked and move about unnoticed – the ultimate nightmare.

For Liz this signals the start of an operation that will test her to the limit. Who or what is the target? Where and who is the invisible? With each passing hour the danger increases. But as she desperately sifts the incoming intelligence and analyses the reports from her agents she finally realises that it is her ability to get inside her enemy’s head that is the only hope of averting disaster.

Reviews

A cracking good thriller

—— The Observer

Intelligent... Undeniably pacy

—— The Guardian

This is something rare: the spy novel that prizes authenticity over fabrication

—— Mail on Sunday

Rimington makes adroit use of her expertise as former MI5 chief

—— The Sunday Times

Tense and terrifying

—— Cosmopolitan

The Secret Service background is exceedingly convincing

—— Evening Standard

First class

—— Douglas Hurd , New Statesman

Brilliantly inventive... A disturbing and highly original novel

—— Stephen Glover , Daily Mail

At its heart, this is a novel about the tabloid press in modern Britain. The scenes involving The Legion, its monstrous proprietor Lennox Mark and its variously brutal, corrupt of self-loathing journalists, are where Wilson's imagination has really been unleashed... Terrifyingly funny

—— Independent

Its combination of Grand Guignol and place setting does command attention

—— Metro London

Original, moving and entertaining for adults as well as for older children

—— Julia Donaldson , Daily Express

A deservedly acclaimed read.

—— Time Out London
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