When a rogue Russian spy warns her of a plot to hack into the West's military satellite systems, MI5's Liz Carlyle finds her past catching up with her...

Geneva, 2012. A Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American Defence programme, but refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle.

At a tracking station in Nevada, US Navy officers watch in horror as one of their unmanned drones plummets out of the sky, and panic spreads through the British and American Intelligence services. Is this a Russian plot to disable the West's defences? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere?

As Liz and her team hunt for a mole inside the MOD, the trail leads them from Geneva, to Marseilles and into a labyrinth of international intrigue, in a race against time to stop the Cold War heating up once again...

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July 19, 2012
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Stella Rimington

Stella Rimington was educated at Nottingham Girls' High School and Edinburgh University where she took an MA in English Language and Literature. She went on to gain a Postgraduate Diploma in the Administration of Archives and The Study of Records at Liverpool University. She worked as an archivist in the Worcestershire County Archives and the India Office Library in London and in 1965 accompanied her husband on a diplomatic posting to the British High Commission in New Delhi. There, she was recruited as a part-time clerk typist by the MI5 office in the High Commission. Returning to the UK in 1969, she joined MI5 full-time, beginning a career…