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The Geneva Trap

por Stella Rimington

Series: Liz Carlyle (7)

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Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. HTML:At a tracking station in Virginia, U.S. Navy officers watch in horror as one of their communications satellites plummets into the Indian Ocean and panic spreads through the British and American intelligence services. When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the cyber sabotage, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. But who is he, and how is he connected to Liz? Is this a Russian plot to disable the West's defenses? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere? As Liz and her team search for a mole inside the Ministry of Defense, the trail takes them from Geneva, to Marseilles, and to Korea in a race against time to stop the Cold War from heating up.… (más)

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Update 2020: The Booker fuss where Rimington was chair and it all went terribly badly because she wanted readability, entirely escaped me.

But I note this. Sam Jordison who runs bookclub for the Guardian and therefore gets to go to the prizegiving could scarcely have been more disparaging of Rimington. He said:

'And then?

It took me quite a while to figure out what was happening. Was Stella Rimington joking when she compared the publishing world with the KGB at its height, thanks to its use of "black propaganda, destabilisation operations, plots and double agents"? Ah no, she wasn't joking. At least I don't think so – and not if Howard Jacobson's face was anything to go by when the camera fortunately zeroed in on him. As he ages, his physiognomy is becoming almost as eloquent as his writing. Last night it said: "What the hell?"' 20 October 2011 The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/oct/19/stella-rimington-booker-...

To which I juxtapose Guardian feature writer (and therefore I assume quite the superior of Sam) Stuart Jeffries 12 days earlier: 8 October 2011

'The former MI5 chief turned spy-thriller writer and Man Booker prize jury chairman who, for the last hour, has been a study in question-deflating diplomacy, is angry. "As somebody interested in literary criticism [her degree from Edinburgh was in English literature], it's pathetic that so-called literary critics are abusing my judges and me. They live in such an insular world they can't stand their domain being intruded upon."

It's hard to understand why she's so cross – surely hissed denunciations, counter-denunciations and deals done behind closed doors during her 40-year career as a spy were ideal training for judging Britain's leading literary prize. And surely the media flaying of Booker judges' credentials is such an annual ritual that no one with a thick skin would be troubled by it.' https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/oct/07/stella-rimington-man-booker-...

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This is so badly written, I'm astonished to find it is a late number in a series. People tried one and came back for more.

On the back cover the Wall Street Journal is quoted as saying the author makes a bid for the ranks of Le Carre, Greene etc. That's like saying McDonalds is making a bid for a Michelin star.

Read twenty pages, each more excruciating than the one before.

Clearly the woman doesn't know Geneva. She has the dude who kicks the book off wondering whether to stay home to have defrosted pizza for dinner or go out to a local cafe for something more interesting. Everybody knows there is nothing more interesting to eat in Geneva than defrosted pizza.

bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |

'And then?

It took me quite a while to figure out what was happening. Was Stella Rimington joking when she compared the publishing world with the KGB at its height, thanks to its use of "black propaganda, destabilisation operations, plots and double agents"? Ah no, she wasn't joking. At least I don't think so – and not if Howard Jacobson's face was anything to go by when the camera fortunately zeroed in on him. As he ages, his physiognomy is becoming almost as eloquent as his writing. Last night it said: "What the hell?"' 20 October 2011 The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/oct/19/stella-rimington-booker-...

To which I juxtapose Guardian feature writer (and therefore I assume quite the superior of Sam) Stuart Jeffries 12 days earlier: 8 October 2011

'The former MI5 chief turned spy-thriller writer and Man Booker prize jury chairman who, for the last hour, has been a study in question-deflating diplomacy, is angry. "As somebody interested in literary criticism [her degree from Edinburgh was in English literature], it's pathetic that so-called literary critics are abusing my judges and me. They live in such an insular world they can't stand their domain being intruded upon."

It's hard to understand why she's so cross – surely hissed denunciations, counter-denunciations and deals done behind closed doors during her 40-year career as a spy were ideal training for judging Britain's leading literary prize. And surely the media flaying of Booker judges' credentials is such an annual ritual that no one with a thick skin would be troubled by it.' https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/oct/07/stella-rimington-man-booker-...

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This is so badly written, I'm astonished to find it is a late number in a series. People tried one and came back for more.

On the back cover the Wall Street Journal is quoted as saying the author makes a bid for the ranks of Le Carre, Greene etc. That's like saying McDonalds is making a bid for a Michelin star.

Read twenty pages, each more excruciating than the one before.

Clearly the woman doesn't know Geneva. She has the dude who kicks the book off wondering whether to stay home to have defrosted pizza for dinner or go out to a local cafe for something more interesting. Everybody knows there is nothing more interesting to eat in Geneva than defrosted pizza.

bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |

'And then?

It took me quite a while to figure out what was happening. Was Stella Rimington joking when she compared the publishing world with the KGB at its height, thanks to its use of "black propaganda, destabilisation operations, plots and double agents"? Ah no, she wasn't joking. At least I don't think so – and not if Howard Jacobson's face was anything to go by when the camera fortunately zeroed in on him. As he ages, his physiognomy is becoming almost as eloquent as his writing. Last night it said: "What the hell?"' 20 October 2011 The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/oct/19/stella-rimington-booker-...

To which I juxtapose Guardian feature writer (and therefore I assume quite the superior of Sam) Stuart Jeffries 12 days earlier: 8 October 2011

'The former MI5 chief turned spy-thriller writer and Man Booker prize jury chairman who, for the last hour, has been a study in question-deflating diplomacy, is angry. "As somebody interested in literary criticism [her degree from Edinburgh was in English literature], it's pathetic that so-called literary critics are abusing my judges and me. They live in such an insular world they can't stand their domain being intruded upon."

It's hard to understand why she's so cross – surely hissed denunciations, counter-denunciations and deals done behind closed doors during her 40-year career as a spy were ideal training for judging Britain's leading literary prize. And surely the media flaying of Booker judges' credentials is such an annual ritual that no one with a thick skin would be troubled by it.' https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/oct/07/stella-rimington-man-booker-...

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This is so badly written, I'm astonished to find it is a late number in a series. People tried one and came back for more.

On the back cover the Wall Street Journal is quoted as saying the author makes a bid for the ranks of Le Carre, Greene etc. That's like saying McDonalds is making a bid for a Michelin star.

Read twenty pages, each more excruciating than the one before.

Clearly the woman doesn't know Geneva. She has the dude who kicks the book off wondering whether to stay home to have defrosted pizza for dinner or go out to a local cafe for something more interesting. Everybody knows there is nothing more interesting to eat in Geneva than defrosted pizza.

bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |

A riveting spy story that kept me guessing. Former MI5 head Stella Rimington weaves a wonderful web of intrigue with sub-plots that she brings together in a climax I didn't see coming. (

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Neil_333 | Mar 6, 2020 |

This is a book about international espionage. It shows how the process is a truly international phenomenon. Time and again, in the story, the question is not about individuals and their motives but about countries and their overlapping agendas. Sometimes the national spies almost literally trip over each other in their attempts to get information. The events, in general, are very believable and the characters, though thin, are drawn with a certain amount of realism and sympathy. The cracks show a little when Rimington deals with technology but she glosses enough to get away with it and her real strength is people. A good Sunday afternoon read. (

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Jawin | Dec 29, 2017 |

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Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. HTML:At a tracking station in Virginia, U.S. Navy officers watch in horror as one of their communications satellites plummets into the Indian Ocean and panic spreads through the British and American intelligence services.
When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the cyber sabotage, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. But who is he, and how is he connected to Liz?
Is this a Russian plot to disable the West's defenses? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere? As Liz and her team search for a mole inside the Ministry of Defense, the trail takes them from Geneva, to Marseilles, and to Korea in a race against time to stop the Cold War from heating up.

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