Man Book Club Man Book Club Man Book Club December 2011
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To chill out this summer we recommend Dame Stella Rimington’s intense spy tale Rip Tide. Directly inspired by her career of 27 years in MI5 and influenced by current threats to National Security, Stella Rimington has devised a plot that is fast paced and gripping. About the Novel When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family in Birmingham and end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with a Kalashnikov. After an undercover operative connected to the case turns up dead in the shipping office of an NGO in Athens it looks like piracy may be the least of the Service's problems. Liz and her team must unravel the connections between Pakistan, Greece and Somalia, relying on their wits - and the judicious use of force - to get to the truth. And they don't have long, as trouble is brewing closer to home: the kind of explosive trouble that MI5 could do without ... About the Author 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 five Liz Carlyle novels. Stella Rimington was the Chair of the Man Booker Prize 2011 judging panel and former MI5 director general. She made headlines when announcing that the Judges would be looking for ‘Readability’ amongst their Man Booker prize shortlisted books. Read more about this fascinating author here. Courtesy of Bloomsbury Publishing Watch Stella Rimington discuss the Rip Tide here.
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The days are longer and the nights are balmy - it’s a great time of year to pack a picnic blanket, venture outdoors and indulge in some thrilling reads.
