http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/stella+rimington/rip+tide/8130031/
Synopsis
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 onboard 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 …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.

Book details
Published
18/07/2011

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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I would like to suggest that I could obtain a copy of this book and study it in as much details as is necessary fully to understand your thesis. When I have done this, I would be grateful to you if you would allow me to telephone you at a time and place of your own choice and convenience. We could then discuss all that has contributed to the writing of the book as well as any future intentions you may have in respect of writing additional books especially about the foreign intelligence service. Having discussed with you the professionalism and the qualifications of some well-known authors who have written ‘spy’ books, fiction and non-fiction, I feel sure that we will be able to publish a website about the writing of your book which will avoid the two extremes often found in this genre of writing. I refer to the extremely negative presentation which was favored by John Le Carre as well as the absurdly melodramatic which has been a characteristic by the books and the movies about James Bond. Our recorded telephone interview would then be posted to an appropriate section of the website and the link could be circulated to the one hundred-odd people in the Email Distribution List in my computer files and then elsewhere in the bookselling / literary community.

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In addition to the following email, Mrs. Bourne said Miss Withers’ behaviour had been so rude that it had left the family dog, Bomber, ‘traumatised, depressed and anxious’. It is said that the dog spent the whole weekend in his kennel with his front paws over his eyes, so shocked was he at young Heidi’s uncouth behaviour. ‘Bomber’ may well be checking into a psychiatric hospital for several weeks in order to allow him to recover from this deeply disturbing experience.

This is the full email from Mrs Bourne (aka. ‘Momzilla’) to Miss Heidi Withers, her prospective step-daughter-in-law.

“It is high time someone explained to you about good manners. Yours are obvious by their absence and I feel sorry for you.

Unfortunately for Freddie, he has fallen in love with you and Freddie being Freddie, I gather it is not easy to reason with him or yet encourage him to consider how he might be able to help you.

It may just be possible to get through to you though. I do hope so.

Your behaviour on your visit to Devon during April was staggering in its uncouthness and lack of grace.

Unfortunately, this was not the first example of bad manners I have experienced from you.

If you want to be accepted by the wider Bourne family I suggest you take some guidance from experts with utmost haste.

There are plenty of finishing schools around. You would be an ideal candidate for the Ladette to Lady television series.

Please, for your own good, for Freddie’s sake and for your future involvement with the Bourne family, do something as soon as possible.

Here are a few examples of your lack of manners:

When you are a guest in another’s house, you do not declare what you will and will not eat – unless you are positively allergic to something.

You do not remark that you do not have enough food.

You do not start before everyone else.

You do not take additional helpings without being invited to by your host.

When a guest in another’s house, you do not lie in bed until late morning in households that rise early – you fall in line with house norms.

There are plenty of finishing schools around. You would be an ideal candidate for the Ladette to Lady television series.

You should never ever insult the family you are about to join at any time and most definitely not in public. I gather you passed this off as a joke but the reaction in the pub was one of shock, not laughter.

I have no idea whether you wrote to thank [your future sister-in-law] for the weekend but you should have hand-written a card to her.

You should have hand-written a card to me. You have never written to thank me when you have stayed at Houndspool.

[Your future sister-in-law] has quite the most exquisite manners of anyone I have ever come across. You would do well to follow her example.

You regularly draw attention to yourself. Perhaps you should ask yourself why.

It is tragic that you have diabetes. However, you aren’t the only young person in the world who is a diabetic.

I know quite a few young people who have this condition, one of whom is getting married in June. I have never heard her discuss her condition.

She quietly gets on with it. She doesn’t like being diabetic. Who would? You do not need to regale everyone with the details of your condition or use it as an excuse to draw attention to yourself. It is vulgar.

As a diabetic of long standing you must be acutely aware of the need to prepare yourself for extraordinary eventualities, the walk to Mothecombe beach being an example.

You are experienced enough to have prepared yourself appropriately.

No-one gets married in a castle unless they own it. It is brash, celebrity style behaviour.

I understand your parents are unable to contribute very much towards the cost of your wedding. (There is nothing wrong with that except that convention is such that one might presume they would have saved over the years for their daughters’ marriages.)

If this is the case, it would be most ladylike and gracious to lower your sights and have a modest wedding as befits both your incomes.

One could be accused of thinking that Heidi Withers must be patting herself on the back for having caught a most eligible young man. I pity Freddie.

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I have seen this done recently in a televised interview with John Le Carre and also in a videotaped interview with Charles Cumming which was released as a video podcast on his website. Both presentations were very effectively done. Both were about published works about the history and the work of people who are involved or who have been involved in the ‘intelligence’ community. They indicate that there does seem to be an audience, possibly a market for an author to be able to provide his reading ‘public’ with a verbal voiceover to accompany his written work. I need hardly add that Ian Fleming who I regard as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century did exactly what you and I are proposing to do. Fleming served in Naval Intelligence throughout WW2. He had a very ‘good war’ as they used to say and after the end of the War, he left the Royal Navy and decided to write a thriller. He could not repeat his wartime experiences as if they had been from his own memories of the War for security reasons. So he reinvented himself as Commander James Bond RN. in order to allow himself to be impersonated by the character of Bond. The James Bond books only attracted the almost cult following during the early nineteen-sixties when the books were made into movies and the character of James Bond was transformed into a ‘real-life’ cut-out by Sean Connery and Roger Moore. Other good actors were also involved and the character of James Bond is now part of international movie history. Who knows? Project Skylark may well become a screenplay and subsequently be made into a movie if it ever finds its way into the right hands. Ian Fleming personally approved of Sean Connery being offered the part of James Bond in the first movie to be made of one of his books. Who comes to mind as a potential ‘cut out’ for the original Skylark?

I believe that the ‘voiceover’ will make this book a really valuable piece of wartime publishing history and one which many other intelligence authors and historians will wish to emulate. The world will have the original author to thank for this development. It will have been made possible by his generous determination to contribute to the popularity of the book which had been written several years previously that it has become possible to do this now. With the help of modern communications technology and those who know how to adapt this technology to this Project, it will be possible to complete it at very little inconvenience to those involved, including to the original author and very economically indeed. We can take this Project stage-by-stage until we come to the end of the book and we can then publish the whole work on my website. Alternatively, we can publish what we are producing in sections again using the resources of my website which I am willing to make available for the purpose of this interesting exercise.