Stella Rimington's latest shows that she's no flash in the pan. The former head of Britain's MI5 turned to writing when she retired. Her suspenseful plots are made all the more realistic by her insider's knowledge of spycraft.
With her boss out of commission nursing his dying wife, MI5 agent Liz Carlyle is charged with the daunting task of thwarting a plot by Syrian malcontents intent on disrupting a peace conference at a Scottish golf resort. The stakes are all the higher when it is announced that both the British prime minister and the US president will attend. As if she didn't already have her hands full, a former colleague asks Liz to investigate a charming guy who is paying unusual attention to the colleague's naive and wealthy mother-in-law. This nail-biter has it all: spy vs. spy, gold-diggers preying on lonely women, and foreign agents snaring their quarry in an old fashioned "honey trap." This is Rimington's fourth spy thriller, and it's a doozy--as good, if not better, than her previous three.
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