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 ten Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.
For fans of Spooks, Homeland, McMafia and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington's gripping espionage series sees Liz Carlyle investigating a sinister Russian plot - tense, gripping and global in scope
A man lies dying in a hospital in upstate Vermont. The nurses know only that he is an academic at a nearby university but they have been instructed to call the FBI should anyone visit their patient.
News of this suspected Russian illegal soon reaches MI5 in London where Liz Carlyle has been contacted by a top secret source known as Mischa who is requesting a clandestine rendezvous in Berlin.
Meanwhile, in Brussels a Russian sleeper agent who has lived undercover for years is beginning to question his role, while suspicions have been roused about a boarding school in Suffolk that has recently changed hands in mysterious circumstances.
The latest expertly plotted thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling series, The Moscow Sleepers is a white-knuckle ride through the dark underbelly of international intelligence, simmering political animosities and global espionage.
Praise for Stella Rimington
Rimington provides lots of detail of intelligence work used to counter today's terrorists that seem real - and intriguing
This spy story is as authentic as it could be ... Highly satisfying
Damn good
Liz Carlyle remains one of the most interesting characters in the male-dominated world of the spy thriller
She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carré
This is something rare: the spy novel that prizes authenticity over fabrication, that is true to the character and spirit of intelligence work
Faster than le Carré, she creates the same sense of real characters struggling with real problems
