When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do
Rip Tide
β Scribed by Stella Rimington
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2011;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 181 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Whenpirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found tobe a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's ThamesHouse. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how andwhy a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family inBirmingham and end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with aKalashnikov.After an undercover operativeconnected to the case turns up dead in the shipping office of an NGO in Athens itlooks like piracy may be the least of the Service's problems. Liz and herteam must unravel the connections between Pakistan, Greece and Somalia,relying on their wits - and the judicious use of force - to get to the truth.And they don't have long, as trouble is brewing closer to home: the kind ofexplosive trouble that MI5 could do without ...StellaRimington, former Director General of MI5, returns with a tense andheart-stopping spy thriller where the secrets are deep, the stakes are...
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