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    Audiobook11 hours

    Dead Line

    Written by Stella Rimington

    Narrated by Maggie Mash

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby, head of the Service's Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source. The future of the whole of the Middle East is at stake and the deadline for action is drawing ever closer...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 2009
    ISBN9781407450681
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    Dead Line
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    Stella Rimington

    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 six Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.

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    • 4/5
      #4 in the series and this time Liz is trying to prevent a Middle East peace conference to be held at Gleneagles from being derailed. Lots of double dealing involving Mossad, Syria, the CIA etc and it all got a bit convoluted. The conversation at the end between Liz and her CIA counterpart, where they methodically explain the loose ends to each other was a bit clunky, but perhaps necessary. The Gleneagles setting was well described.The "love triangle" between Charles, Joanne and Liz seems finally to be reaching some sort of resolution, which pleases me as only Joanne comes out of it with any credit as far as I am concerned. It puzzles me why Liz is so irresistible to the men who have authority over her at work and why she seems to be seeking a father figure. It's distracting and makes me like her less.
    • 4/5
      'Dead Line', the 4th in Stella Rimington's Liz Carlyle series, is a tricky one. The British secret service is made aware of the potential for the disruption of an international conference in Scotland, and from there it becomes a sometimes tedious search for the who, what, when, where, and why. As with her prior novels, Ms. Rimington provides great descriptions of tradecraft and the inner workings of both the security services and the political atmosphere surrounding them. What I most enjoy about the series, though, is the lead character. Liz isn't a killing machine or a bloodless analytical robot, but is rather a hyper-competent agent with a conscience and other very human qualities and needs. The author has done fine work in developing this character and, with the announcement at the very end of the book, we can look forward to what I can assume to be new entanglements on her social side.The writing is crisp but the book doesn't move as quickly as I expected. That's probably on me- security investigations mixed with diplomacy and international competition between services don't move fast, and Ms. Rimington obviously knows what's involved there. Two problems I had with 'Dead Line': the dialogue of one of the American CIA officers didn't ring very true. He was an ex-Ivy league Anglophile who spoke as if he were British. The other issue was with the conclusion- at the risk of being a spoiler, I didn't think the level of cunning and precision of the perpetrator would have resulted in the dependence on the final group of involved characters and the complicated type of attack that was carried out.So, this was definitely a worthwhile read by an author who has spun a fine series out of her experience as the head of Britain's MI5.
    • 3/5
      a bit contrived
    • 4/5
      Matter-of-fact and unexpected.
    • 2/5
      This is the third (and worst) Liz Carlyle novel I've read. As such, I was expecting the cardboard characters and the author's close identification with her protagonist. Liz Carlyle is clearly perfect - or perhaps she is how the author would see herself in an ideal world, complete with a hero (heroine?) worshipping acolyte, an idealised boss and a load of untrustworthy and self-seeking colleagues.I was, however, taken aback this time by the apology for a plot and the complete lack of consistency and motivation with extraneous and contradictory plot lines and loose ends never tied up. The following questions might constitute spoilers, so stop here if that worries you:1. Having met the villain, why does Liz not recognise him in the garden?2. Why on earth does he try to run her over with a car?3. How can he be sitting next to himself at the cricket?4. Why does he disappear at the airport when there is no need to and it jeopardises his entire plan?By the way, the plot is so convoluted and obscure that I could have got the wrong end of the stick regarding any or all of the above and my wife threw the book away in disgust so that I can't check unless I waste money on a new copy.Perhaps the most worrying aspect of this whole book is the fact that it purports to have been written by the ex head of MI5. If this is the intellectual level of the secret service, no wonder they seem to stumble from catastrophe to disaster. We should be afraid for the future of civilisation. Very afraid.
    • 4/5
      This fourth novel in the author's series of intelligence-themed thrillers featuring MI5 officer Liz Carlyle features a threat to a Middle East peace conference in Gleneagles in Scotland, from a source with their own particular motives. The number of agents running other agents in double or triple bluffs confused me a bit, but as ever Liz is a sympathetic figure and her colleagues are becoming clearer and more well-rounded ongoing characters, some of them rather likeable like her boss Charles Wetherby and her her assistant Peggy Kinsolving. I am enjoying this series more now and, as always any scepticism about the apparent implausibility of some of the plot twists, is offset by the fact of the author's former position as MI5 Director General.
    • 2/5
      I was drawn to this book by the blurb, it sounded like the basis for an exciting spy thriller. Sadly, whilst this book has the elements of an exciting spy thriller, it is far from such.

      The narrative it at times rather dry and the plot isn't unique in terms of the method of getting to the climax, it's merely a rehash of the methods of a hundred other spy movies & books implemented in a way that makes you feel drowsy.

      It's set in Britain so predictably there is no gun play, but there's also not much in the way of actual spying either just some dull scenes of meeting on a cliff top, a car toppling over a cliff and a bland description of someone being hit by a car. Clichéd British phrases such as 'jolly dangerous time' also didn't aid the narrative.

      If I were to describe this book in two words: resoundingly average, in one word: dull.

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