Illegal Action (25 page)

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stella Rimington joined Britain’s Security Service (MI5) in 1969. During her nearly thirty-year career she worked in all the main fields of the Service’s responsibilities—counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism—and successively became Director of all three branches. 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. Following her retirement from MI5 in 1996, she became a nonexecutive director of Marks & Spencer and published her autobiography,
Open Secret
, in the United Kingdom. She is also the author of the novels
At Risk
and
Secret Asset
.

ALSO BY STELLA RIMINGTON

FICTION

Secret Asset

At Risk

NONFICTION

Open Secret

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2007 by Stella Rimington

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Originally published in Great Britain by Hutchinson, an imprint of the Random House Group Limited, London, in 2007.

This edition published by arrangement with Hutchinson, an imprint of the Random House Group Ltd.

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rimington, Stella.
Illegal action/by Stella Rimington.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
“This is a Borzoi Book.”
Originally published: Great Britain: Hutchinson, 2007.
1. Women intelligence officers—Fiction. 2. Russians—England—London—Fiction. 3. Spies—England—London—Fiction. 4. London (England)—Fiction. I. Title.
PR
6118.144145 2008
823'.92—dc22                                                                                          2008004148

eISBN: 978-0-307-26952-2

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