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After retiring in 1996, Rimington wrote Open Secret, a tell-little autobiography that gave her the confidence to try her hand at fiction. "I'm an addicted reader of John le Carré," she says, "so I figured, Why not?" She holed up for long stretches at her beach home in Norfolk, East Anglia, where much of At Risk is set, and leaned heavily on the assistance of novelist Luke Jennings. "I'm quite good at thinking up plots and characters, but I needed help with pacing," she explains...
...Risk is certainly not flawless. Early on, the reader is privy to more details of the terrorist plot than Liz, and things move slowly until she catches up. Liz also has a convenient habit of asking herself bushels of expository questions ("What business could Eastman have been doing with Germans and Arabs and Pakistanis? Who had been killed? And most vitally of all, was there a terror connection?"). But these are quibbles. In a thriller, plot is all and once it gets going, At Risk is never less than compelling. The book was vetted--as was Rimington's first...
...really required. It's the simple detail of Howie's day-to-day measured existence that propels this book forward. It's enough that King etches so expertly the fine filigree of the man's resignation and pain, his awareness of the "burden of my dullness"--which the reader understands is just the world's inability to find its way into his steady, lustrous stream of consciousness. At one point, trying to muster sympathy for Sylvia's addiction, he recollects his own druggy days. "For a moment, I recall those spectacular arcs of time when I was the solitary pinprick...
...Some Other Ideas A number of our readers had their own thoughts about whom they would have selected as TIME's Person of the Year. From Barcelona came this suggestion: "A better choice would have been a collage or mosaic showing the faces of the brave soldiers and innocent victims who have perished in the Iraqi conflict." A reader from the United Arab Emirates complained, "It bothers me that almost every U.S. President is named at least once as the Person of the Year. HOW ABOUT BEING MORE CREATIVE IN YOUR SELECTION?" And a Pennsylvanian asked, "How could you miss...
...Naturally, a number of TIME's readers had their own thoughts about who should be Person of the Year. The Iraq war got its share of attention with nominations for "the brave soldiers and innocent victims who have perished in the Iraqi conflict." There was a concerted letter-writing campaign for Viktor Yushchenko, who finally succeeded in winning the disputed Ukrainian presidential election. His supporters praised him as "a prime example of someone who is truly fighting for democracy." A Salt Lake City, Utah, reader had this idea: "A better choice would have been the American people. We weathered...