At Risk: An unmissable, action-packed spy thriller that will keep you hooked until the very end! (Liz Carlyle 1)

· Liz Carlyle Book 1 · Random House
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Former head of MI5 Stella Rimington brings the high-stakes world of intelligence to life in AT RISK – the first novel in her bestselling and much-loved series featuring MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle.

'A cracking good thriller' The Observer
'Intelligent [and] undeniably pacy' Guardian

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For MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle the nagging complications of her private life are quickly forgotten at Monday’s Counter-Terrorist meeting. An invisible may have entered mainland Britain.

An ‘invisible’ is a terrorist who is an ethnic native of the target country, who can cross its borders unchecked and move about unnoticed – the ultimate nightmare.

For Liz this signals the start of an operation that will test her to the limit. Who or what is the target? Where and who is the invisible? With each passing hour the danger increases.

But as she desperately sifts the incoming intelligence and analyses the reports from her agents she finally realises that it is her ability to get inside her enemy’s head that is the only hope of averting disaster.

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Former head of MI5 Stella Rimington brings the high-stakes world of intelligence to life in AT RISK – the first novel in her bestselling and much-loved series featuring MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle. 'A cracking good thriller' The Observer 'Intelligent [and] undeniably pacy' Guardian -----...

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11 reviews
Caleb
October 29, 2025
Sollid and feels plausible. very easy to visualise the people, places and things, and the sense of two women bonded at some kind of wound is almost ethereal, befitting the haunting landscape of saturation. intelligence over brawn. liz is a good character, easy to sense as a future companion in another reading adventure. "They create a wilderness and call it peace" is as contemporary a quote as history can give us.
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Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1965 and during her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service's responsibilities - counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism - and became successively Director of all three branches. She was appointed Director-General of MI5 in 1992. She was the first woman to hold the post and the first Director-General whose name was publicly announced on appointment. Her autobiography, Open Secret, was published by Hutchinson in 2001.
Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1965 and during her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service's responsibilities - counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism - and became successively Director of all three branches. She was appointed Director-G...

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