Addressing Edinburgh the international book festival, the former MI5 chief spoke about bringing women into a genre dominated by men
In pictures: Stars on the Edinburgh international book festival 2015
The former head of MI5 Stella Rimington told the Edinburgh international book festival that after retiring from her job, she set herself a new mission – to “rescue spy stories from the blokes.”
Rimington, who joined the security service as a typist in 1968 and became its its first female director general in 1992, is following up last year’s Close Call by working on her ninth novel featuring heroine Liz Carlyle.
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