Illegal Action

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2007 by Stella Rimington

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Originally published in Great Britain by Hutchinson, an imprint of the Random House Group Limited, London, in 2007.

This edition published by arrangement with Hutchinson, an imprint of the Random House Group Ltd.

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rimington, Stella.

Illegal action/by Stella Rimington.—1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

“This is a Borzoi Book.”

Originally published: Great Britain: Hutchinson, 2007.

1. Women intelligence officers—Fiction. 2. Russians—England—London—Fiction. 3. Spies—England—London—Fiction. 4. London (England)—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6118.144145 2008

823’.92—dc22 2008004148

eISBN: 978-0-307-26952-2

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