The Moscow Sleepers
The Moscow Sleepers
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The Moscow Sleepers by Dame Stella Rimington
For fans of Spooks, Homeland, McMafia and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington’s bestselling 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. THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN, the brand-new thriller from Stella Rimington, is out now.
Damn good … I’d certainly take any sequel she writes * Daily Telegraph *
Liz Carlyle remains one of the most interesting characters in the male-dominated world of the spy thriller * Daily Express *
Rimington provides lots of detail of intelligence work used to counter today’s terrorists that seem real – and intriguing * Financial Times *
She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carré * Wall Street Journal *
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 *
Faster than le Carré, she creates the same sense of real characters struggling with real problems * John Sandford *
Liz Carlyle remains one of the most interesting characters in the male-dominated world of the spy thriller * Daily Express *
Rimington provides lots of detail of intelligence work used to counter today’s terrorists that seem real – and intriguing * Financial Times *
She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carré * Wall Street Journal *
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 *
Faster than le Carré, she creates the same sense of real characters struggling with real problems * John Sandford *
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 nine Liz Carlyle novels, most recently, Breaking Cover. She lives in London and Norfolk.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781408859742 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408859742 |
| Title | The Moscow Sleepers |
| Author | Stella Rimington |
| Series | A Liz Carlyle Thriller |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2018-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |