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    Audiobook11 hours

    Present Danger

    Written by Stella Rimington

    Narrated by Maggie Mash

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has just been despatched to Northern Ireland. In Belfast, Liz and her team are monitoring the brutal breakaway Republican groups who never accepted the peace process and want to continue their 'war'. Intelligence is focused on the shady Fraternity, with links to drug-running, arms-dealing and organised crime. It is a perilous group to become involved with. Especially if your informant turns tail...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateDec 1, 2010
    ISBN9781407465227
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    Present Danger
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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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    • 3/5
      I expected more. Whilst I didn’t expect the author to share state secrets I was hoping for more insightful descriptions of an intelligence officers work. Instead there were times when the characters behaved like fools.
    • 2/5
      #5 in the series and my new least favourite (by a wide margin). Liz is posted to the Northern Ireland office (despite having almost no relevant experience) as the HR department is concerned about her "relationship" with Charles, whose wife has now died. Set very specifically soon after the Good Friday Agreement brought (mostly) peace to Northern Ireland, this novel has aged badly - it felt dated, rather than historical.Once again Liz muses about making a move on the oh-so-recently widowed Charles (in such poor taste and showing such poor judgment), while proving irresistible to a male counterpart in French intelligence.The plotting of this novel was very poor; SPOILERS: Judith fails to vet the cleaning lady/babysitter she shares with Liz and she turns out to be the widow of an IRA martyr with a grudge against the British government; Dave (in a way that is so totally out of character for him that I couldn't really suspend my disbelief) goes off on a massively ill-advised solo mission; Liz fails to turn her phone on for 48 hours while flirting in Paris; Liz summons Peggy to NI for her "invaluable assistance" and Peggy does what I thought Judith was supposed to be doing; Dave is kidnapped by two men after a misunderstanding on the part of a Spanish gunman with poor English; and despite the fact that one of these men is determined to kill an MI5 officer, instead they keep Dave alive and take him on a cruise to France via Portugal before storing him in a wine cellar and plan to trade him to a terrorist organization. The whole thing was ridiculous.
    • 3/5
      I can't compare this to any of the rest of Rimington's oeuvre; this is the first I've read, but it's a pretty solid representation of the genre, and I would definitely read more.The plot is credible, the goodies sympathetic, the baddies the opposite; the action is compelling enough and the climax satisfying. Characterisation is sketchy but not entirely absent.The big minus is that while the Belfast setting lends realism, it is distinctly unglamorous; the big plus that Stella Rimington's name and CV lends the stamp of authority: one feels, rightly or wrongly, that this is, or at least approximates as closely as possible within the rules of readable fiction to what it was (is?) really like - and not just the techniques and processes, but, more importantly, the relationships among and between MI5 officers and their colleagues nationally and internationally.This is worth a great deal in the mind of the reader, and is the reason why I think this series of novels stand a chance of a slightly longer afterlife than many like it.
    • 2/5
      Very entertaining, though rather lightweight, and somewhat predictable.