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A Liz Carlyle Thriller (Book 9)
- Author
- Stella Rimington
- Narrator
- Amy Noble
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 14 August 2025
- Run Time
- 11 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Recovering from a gruelling terrorist investigation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5’s counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the change of scene will give her some breathing space, but they haven’t counted on Putin’s increased aggression towards the West. Soon Liz is on the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War.
Meanwhile, MI6 has hired Jasminder Kapoor, a controversial young civil rights lawyer, to explain issues of privacy and security to the public. But in this world of shadowy motives and secret identities, Jasminder must be extra-careful about whom she can trust …
THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN, the brand-new thriller from Stella Rimington, is out now.
Critics Review
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She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carré
Wall Street Journal
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A wealth of persuasive detail, obviously drawn from first-hand experience
Marie Claire
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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
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For a pacy page-turner, she's a safe bet . . . Rimington is particularly strong in her accounts of procedure, unsurprisingly, given her past role as Head of MI5
Independent
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Faster than Le Carré, she creates the same sense of real characters struggling with real problems
John Sandford
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Liz Carlyle is an MI5 agent with the traditional thriller-heroine mix of dysfunctional personal life and steely ambition
Daily Telegraph
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Just like her heroine Liz, Stella Rimington was a woman in a mainly man’s world as the head of MI5 and this lends her novel enormous credibility right through to the nail-biting final
Woman
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This spy story is as authentic as it could be … Although high drama is tightly limited, there is enough action (and sympathy for targeted agents) to make for a highly satisfying plot
Country Life
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Details
- Author
- Stella Rimington
- Narrator
- Amy Noble
- Duration
- 11 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 August 2025
- ISBN
- 9781639739424
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Espionage and spy thriller
Synopsis
‘Rimington tells her story with the crisp authority one would expect of James Bond’s M’ New York Times Book ReviewRecovering from a gruelling terrorist investigation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5’s counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the change of scene will give her some breathing space, but they haven’t counted on Putin’s increased aggression towards the West. Soon Liz is on the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War.Meanwhile, MI6 has hired Jasminder Kapoor, a controversial young civil rights lawyer, to explain issues of privacy and security to the public. But in this world of shadowy motives and secret identities, Jasminder must be extra-careful about whom she can trust …THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN, the brand-new thriller from Stella Rimington, is out now.
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