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Main Author: Rimington, Stella
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
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Great Britain. > MI5 > Fiction.
Women intelligence officers > Great Britain > Fiction.
Arab-Israeli conflict > Fiction.
Peace > Congresses > Fiction.
Suspense fiction. > England
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Item Description:"Originally published in Great Britain by Quercus, London, in 2008"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:341 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780307272546 (alk. paper)
0307272540 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:Stella Rimington joined Britain's Security Service (MI5) in 1969. During her nearly thirty-year career she worked in all the main fields of the Service's responsibilities--counter subversion, counter espionage and counter terrorism--and successively became Director of all three branches. Appointed Director General of MI5 in 1992, she was the first woman to hold the post and the first Director General whose name was publicly announced on appointment. Following her retirement from MI5 in 1996, she became a nonexecutive director of Marks & Spencer and published her autobiography, Open Secret, in the United Kingdom. She is also the author ofthree previous novels: At Risk, Secret Asset and Illegal Action . Rimington lives in London.

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