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Thursday, 25 October 2012

Stella Rimington - Bloomsbury Book Club

Intelligence Squared Bloomsbury Book Club with Stella Rimington
Thursday 8th November
6pm for 6.30pm
At 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP
Tickets £25 including the book

www.bloomsburyinstitute.com

Stella Rimington, our most high profile spy fiction writer, attends the November Book Club.
As the former Director General of the MI5, Rimington is no stranger to the underground world of spying. Her wealth of experience as the first female spy to rise to the top of the famously male-dominated organisation feeds magnificently into her novels, providing an authentic insight into the often over-glamourised and sensationalised world of the Secret Service. Which is not to say that her book lacks any of the traditional thrills and spills of traditional spy fiction; The Geneva Trap is a masterful blend of ambition and personal relationships.

When a Russian spy approaches MI6 with vital information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American Defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle of MI5. But who is he, and what is his connection to the British intelligence officer?

At a US Air Force base in Nevada, 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...

‘Liz Carlyle is an MI5 agent with the traditional thriller-heroine mix of dysfunctional personal life and steely ambition’ Daily Telegraph

Ticket Details

Tickets for the Intelligence Squared Bloomsbury Book Club cost £25 for individual events and include a copy of the hardback book posted to your home. For details of season membership please contact Claire Daly at
bloomsburyinstitute@bloomsbury.com
mailto:bloomsburyinstitute@bloomsbury.com
or call 0207 631 5717.
Date: Thursday 8th November
Time: Drinks 6pm, Talk 6.30pm
Place: Bloomsbury Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP
Cost: £25 (including the book)

The Intelligence Squared Bloomsbury Book Club is sponsored by Moët Hennessy

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