Saturday, December 8, 2018

The Moscow Sleepers

In Stella Rimington's The Moscow Sleepers, the 10th installment in the Liz Carlyle espionage thriller series, this novel follows a riveting tale that could take place in our own country. For Liz Carlyle, an agent with MI5, it all started when a mysterious Swiss man visited a Russian man in an American hospice before he died. That started the investigation on who the man was and what he was after, when the FBI had contacted London. With a thorough background search, they followed the leads to a mysterious school called the Bartholomew Manor in Southwold. For Liz and her partner Peggy Kinsolving, they dig a little bit deeper into what made that school so unsavory and what purpose did they have to teach refugee students computer skills. Before it unraveled faster than a ball of yarn, one of their own agents, Bruno MacKay, did his own investigation in Russia and discovered the truth between two Russian brothers while in Germany, Dieter Nimitz thought he had knew his wife Irma. But she had her own secrets of her own to share and she's connected to the English school. When the secretary wound up dead and a brave student escaped the school, things heated up and took a dangerous turn for Mi5 and in Germany, when they managed to tie up loose ends and extract Bruno out safely before his cover would be blown.

This was a compelling and intriguing spy thriller from Dame Stella Rimington, who worked in Mi5 many years ago. I did care for Liz and how she managed to piece together the clues into this case even if she did reunite with Richard Pearson, a former flame, and a chief constable who worked the same case. I did like how she helped Peggy land the promotion and how she managed to get out of the creepy school carefully. I thought Peggy was gripping and an interesting person. I loved the vast variety of locations from Vermont, London, Berlin and Moscow--each had a stellar and mesmerizing scenic settings for each point of the story. This would keep you hooked into every page with non-stop action, high-stakes drama, intense suspense and a lot of mystery going on.

Will you be there to stop the Moscow Sleepers today?



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