Stella Rimington

Stella Rimington is a British author of spy thriller novels. She writes the Liz Carlyle series. Rimington was the first female Director-General of MI5, which was a post she held for four years from 1992 until 1996. Prior to that, she had been working in the Security Service since 1965. During that time, she worked in all of the various fields covered by the agency, including counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism.