Dead Line

Zusatztext "Several former spies have tried their hand at espionage fiction with great success! but Dame Stella trumps all." -- Baltimore Sun “Fast moving! engrossing! and well constructed . . . absolutely sweat-inducing.”— Booklist   “Packed with the sort of detail that only an insider could bring.”— Irish Independent   “The impressively Ludlumesque plot will keep readers blissfully turning the pages until the end.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Stella Rimington Klappentext MI5 Officer Liz Carlyle returns in a powerfully suspenseful, psychologically riveting thriller to diffuse a terrorist plot. As plans get under way for a Middle East peace conference at the Gleneagles resort in Scotland, MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss, who has just received an alarming tip: two individuals are mounting an operation to violently disrupt the conference and lay the blame on Syria, and Liz must stop them. No one knows who they are or exactly what they're planning, but given the stature of the conference attendees no chances can be taken. As the conference deadline draws closer, Liz keeps running into one dead end after another, and she begins to understand that the threat is far greater than she could have imagined. 1 In his flat near the British embassy in Nicosia, Peter Templeton woke early. For a few minutes he lay staring at the ladder pattern on the wall of his bedroom made by the sun shining through the venetian blinds. Then, with an anticipatory jolt, he remembered the message he’d received yesterday: the code word from Jaghir that called him to an urgent meeting. Templeton was MI6’s head of station in Cyprus, and Jaghir was one of his most important agents. There was little traf?c in Nicosia this early, so when Templeton’s black saloon pulled out of the car park beneath his block of ?ats it had the street to itself. But within thirty seconds a small, battered hatch-back swung round a corner and began to follow closely behind the saloon. The two cars went south through the old walled city, a cautious convoy, avoiding the UN Green Line and the Turkish sector in the north. They took the narrow side streets, past old stone houses with ornate balconies, their tall wooden shutters still ?rmly closed, and shops that were not yet open for business. Driving through an opening in the old Venetian wall, former boundary of a once much smaller city, they crossed the Pedieos River. The two cars proceeded carefully, their drivers alert and tense; another vehicle could have followed their labyrinthine progress, but not without being detected. As they emerged from the outskirts of the city, a hinterland of white concrete apartment blocks, the cars accelerated and drove on towards the Troodos mountains. Slowly the road began to climb, and at the base of the range it split, its main artery moving north around the mountain, a smaller track heading in a tortuous zigzag up the mountain itself. In the crook of the junction sat a small café, just half a dozen tables in a dusty courtyard under an overhanging tourathes rigged to block the sun. Templeton lifted his hand briefl y from the wheel in a quick salute to his colleague, and drove on up the track. The hatchback pulled into the café’s small parking lot and the driver got out to sit at a table, ordering a coffee when the proprietor emerged blinking in the bright light. But the driver’s eyes watched the road he’d come along. It was barely seven o’clock and cooler here than in Nicosia, but already the temperature was nearly 90 degrees. As Templeton made his way up the treacherous track that cut through the large stands of umbrella pines lining the mountainside, he kept an eye on his rear-view mirror, but all he could see was the cloud of dust his car was stirring up. It was just th...

Product details

• Authors: Stella Rimington
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2011
• EAN: 9780307473615
• ISBN: 978-0-307-47361-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 188 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Agent Liz Carlyle Series; Agent Liz Carlyle Series; Agent Liz Carlyle
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense