Liz Carlyle (Character)

A British author, the writer Stella Rimington is known for her highly detailed novels based on the intelligence services, created finely crafted and well researched spy and espionage novels. Largely thanks to her time spent as Director-General of the MI5, she has been able to provide her work with a level of detail and knowledge unlike any other. Providing her plots and characters with a highly realistic foundation, her many readers have come to appreciate her uncompromising and in-depth portrayal of the field of espionage. One series that she is particularly well known for is her Liz Carlyle, which features the eponymous MI5 agent of the series title. Following her throughout, it charts her progress over the course of the franchise and her career in the Joint Counter-Terrorist Group as an MI5 agent there. Taking place in London England as well, it really is a case of Rimington writing about what she knows, and it clearly shows in the well plotted and executed narratives and characterizations.