Breaking Cover: A Liz Carlyle Novel - Hardcover

"Rimington tells her story with the crisp authority one would expect of James Bond’s M . . . The story careens along energetically, giving us lots of juicy insider-seeming details along the way." - New York Times Book Review

"Now that Vladimir Putin is flexing his muscles in the international arena, Rimington, who always has a sharp eye for contemporary headlines, provides another dose of Cold War tension for MI5 and MI6 . . . [Breaking Cover is] perhaps the most vividly plotted of Rimington's recent spy thrillers." - Kirkus

"Compelling . . . Rimington, who spent decades at MI5, does a fine job of depicting the up-to-the-minute tradecraft." - Publishers Weekly

"She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carré" - The Wall Street Journal

"For a pacy page-turner, she's a safe bet . . . Rimington is particularly strong in her accounts of procedure, unsurprisingly, given her past role as Head of MI5" - The Independent

"A wealth of persuasive detail, obviously drawn from first-hand experience" - Marie Claire

"This is something rare: the spy novel that prizes authenticity over fabrication that is true to the character and spirit of intelligence work" - Mail on Sunday

"Faster than Le Carré, she creates the same sense of real characters struggling with real problems" - John Sandford

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