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What's better than 007? Stella Rimington, of course. She's the former director general of British counter-intelligence and security agency MI5. She held the position from 1992 to 1996, making her the first woman to take the role.
Now, at 89 years young, Dame Stella Rimington is still going hard, this time as an author, with a slew of espionage spy thrillers inspired by her previous line of work.
Her latest The Hidden Hand follows a Chinese student at Oxford caught in a covert operation to steal research.
