Secret Asset

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2006 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 2006.

This edition published by arrangement with Hutchinson, the Random House Group Limited.

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

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rimington, Stella.

Secret asset / Stella Rimington.

p. cm.

1. Terrorism—Prevention—Fiction. 2. Intelligence officers—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6118.I44S43 2007

823'.92—dc22

2006048798

eISBN: 978-0-307-26703-0

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