Rip Tide, Paperback/Stella Rimmington

MI5 officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family in Birmingham and end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with a Kalashnikov. Stella Rimington's latest novel is a tense and heart-stopping spy thriller where the secrets are deep, the stakes are high and the enemy is always just out of sight. 'She uses her knowledge of covert spy operations to create powerful story lines that are exciting yet plausible' }Daily Express{