Book review : Rip Tide by Stella Rimington

Title - RIP TIDE

Author - Stella Remington

Format - Hardback

About the author - Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5, returns with a tense and heart-stopping spy thriller where the stakes are high and the enemy is always just out of sight. Given her experience with MI5 you can imagine the detailing in this book. Her other novels are Secret Asset, Illegal Action, Dead Line, Present Danger, The Geneva Trap and Close Call to name a few.

Book blurb - When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence 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 on board a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with a Kalashnikov.

After an undercover operative connected to the case turns up dead in the shipping office of an NGO in Athens it looks like piracy may be the least of the Service's problems. Liz and her team must unravel the connections between Pakistan, Greece and Somalia,relying on their wits - and the judicious use of force - to get to the truth.And they don't have long, as trouble is brewing closer to home: the kind of explosive trouble that MI5 could do without ...

My View : 

"Life is about love and work. If neither is right you are in trouble. If one's right, you'll       probably be ok. But for a truly fulfilled life you need them both to be in order."

It is a well laid out thriller. Stella has created well thought of characters. I am an independent woman and I value my work a lot and hence the character of the protagonist -  Liz, was an instant draw for me. 

She is a strong woman with total focus on work. Anyone can connect to her as the story focuses on her work as well as the love and attractions that keep knocking on her doors.

The storyline of RIP TIDE is captivating and just doesn't let's you keep away the book even for once. So as it is a thriller, I won't reveal much, but will add that the characterization makes one doubt almost all the people until the truth is revealed. RIP TIDE is bound to keep you on the edge all through-out.

I will rate it a 5 on 5.

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