Sentences with phrase «british secret service»

Though not much is known about the new book yet, Viking describes it as «a fast - moving story that reveals the battles of the British Secret Service in addition to the brutal maneuvering of the international criminal world.»

«British Secret Service agent Peter Guillam has been summoned out of his quiet retirement in Breton to come to London and explain his involvement in a clandestine operation, code - named Windfall, to a bunch of people too young or too inexperienced to understand its ramifications.

We've been anticipating Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth for a few months now, so it was a relief to dive in recently and find a delightful adventure tale told by a protagonist readers will identify with right away: Bibliophile and Cambridge grad Serena, who is recruited for the British secret service.

Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service.

Atkinson (Life After Life) explores the aftermath of war through the story of a former British Secret Service worker who joins the BBC, but soon she must face the consequences of idealism.

Set in 1972, the book stars an intelligent bibliophile and Cambridge grad, Serena, who is recruited for the British secret service.

[The novel follows] the life of a poor seamstress from Madrid who, after being abandoned in Algiers by her lover, becomes the most sought - after couturiere in North Africa, but is embroiled in a world of spies that pass information on to the British Secret Service through a code stitched into her dress designs.

She then assumes a new identity and becomes a couturiere for the wives of Nazi officers... and then becomes an undercover spy for the British Secret Service during World War II.

Philby was a British Secret Service agent spying for the Soviets during the Cold War.

Our Kind of Traitor Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris star as a couple who find themselves as pawns in a game between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service in this gripping spy thriller based on the novel by bestselling author John Le Carré («Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy»).

She is not the respectable Sally Gilmartin, but in fact Eva Delectorskaya, a spy for the British Secret Service who has been on the run for thirty years.

«John Le Carre's internationally famous hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, has a world - class problem.

After Daniel Craig's first and highly successful step into the Bond character in Casino Royale, it was just a given that the actor would return to play the masterful British secret service operative.

An opportunity for such a life presents itself when Wormold is recruited for the British Secret Service by a gentleman named Hawthorne (played by the great Noel Coward), who feels being a ho - hum vacuum cleaner salesman is the perfect front for Wormold to be their Havana agent.

Two exceptional lawyers with a romantic history step into a dangerous web of secrets and lies, and when evidence points to a possible British Secret Service cover up, it's not just their reputations, but their lives that are at stake.

As the film begins, Control (John Hurt), the head of M16 (the British secret service, known colloquially as «the Circus»), sends a field spy (Mark Strong) into Budapest to talk a Hungarian general into defecting.

When they have to separate, it is discovered that James works for the British Secret Service.

John LeCarre» actually worked for the British Secret Service prior to becoming an author (also wrote The Constant Gardener and The Russia House).

The success of «Modesty Blaise,» in which Vitti's title character is a world - class thief hired by the British Secret Service for a top secret mission, spurred several female - centric spy films.

A British Secret Service agent finds himself on a questionable, albeit dangerous assignment: stopping the men (man?)

Oldman's towering, transformative turn in «Darkest Hour» is miles apart from his other Oscar - nominated performance, delicately playing George Smiley, the impassive, inscrutable British secret service agent in 2011's «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.»

I wrote a feature review of Sony's DVD release of Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana, starring Alec Guinness as a meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana who concocts fictional intelligence reports for the British Secret Service, for Turner Classic Movies.

Tinker Tailor opens with Control (John Hurt, for once not playing a loon), head of the British secret service MI6 — referred to as the «Circus» — sending his agent Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into the field to flush out a mole within the Circus.

Control believes there's a breach in the highest levels of «the Circus,» the code name for the British secret service, and he uses his influence to set Smiley after the mole, who is sneaking secrets to the Soviets and is most likely one of four powerful agents (Toby Jones, Colin Firth, Ciaran Hinds, David Dencik).

The research found that participants with anxious attachment style not only believed in general notions of conspiracy but also specific established conspiracy theories, such as that Princess Diana was assassinated by the British Secret Service.

He took her into a little office and told her they knew she was a spy, an agent of the British secret service.

Back in 2010, Jonathan Sumption QC was acting on behalf of David Miliband, then foreign secretary, in a case on British secret service collusion in the torture of Binyam Mohamed in Guantanamo Bay.

It is a beautiful piece of verse, cunningly placed during an action sequence, which is to the British secret service what the Olympic Opening Ceremony was to British self - identity.

According to foreign secretary David Miliband, the UK government does not «cooperate, authorise or condone» torture, but Mr Mohamed claims questions US agents asked him while in detention in Morocco about his life in London could only have come from information supplied by the British secret services.

Lord Goldsmith is understood to have been warned that the flow of vital intelligence from the Saudi Government to the British secret services could be impaired following a break between the two governments over the contracts, thereby endangering national security, particularly during the war on terrorism.

When Dima asks them to help him deliver classified information to the British Secret Services, the couple is thrown on a perilous journey through the realms of espionage and dirty politics.

It says a great deal for the skill of the British secret services (not a phrase one gets to use too often) that the very existence of one of the most important operations of the Second World War managed to be kept from the general public until the best part of 40 years after the conflict ended.

When Dima asks for their help to deliver classified information to the British Secret Services, Perry and Gail get caught in a dangerous world of international espionage and dirty politics.

People should bear in mind that the British secret services have been recruiting from Oxford and Cambridge Universities for many years and putting their people in the media.

Not exact matches

What pretty much no one knows — until now — is that the famous author of the Chronicles of Narnia was a secret government agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service — the for - reasecret government agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service — the for - reaSecret Intelligence Service — the for - real MI6.

The information behind such portrayals doesn't come from the files of secret British and US intelligence services that we're never allowed to see, but from the horrifying testimony of survivors, or those still trapped in areas of ISIS control.

The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers (William Collins # 30) explores the evolving relationship between successive British Prime Ministers and agencies, from Asquith's Secret Service Bureau to Cameron's National Security Council.

This year, two British intelligence institutions celebrate their centenaries: the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).

Babak Najafi directs the action sequel, which sends Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) and President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) to London for the funeral of the British prime minister.

London Has Fallen (Blu - ray + DVD + Ultraviolet) Details: 2016, Universal Studios Home Entertainment Rated: R, graphic violence, language The lowdown: Gerard Butler returns as Secret Service agent Mike Banning who, in this sequel, must protect President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) from a terrorist group that already has killed several world leaders who were in London for the funeral of the British prime minister.

With its dapper suits, barroom brawls, and Colin Firth, Kingsman: The Secret Service was a very British action movie.

Watch Kingsman: The Secret Service star Taron Egerton play the legendary British underdog in the first trailer for Dexter Fletcher's biopic

Directed by Babak Najafi, the follow - up to the brutal and bonkers actioner Olympus Has Fallen finds Butler «s Secret Service head accompanying the President to the London funeral of the British Prime Minister, which becomes a target for a terrorist organization looking to wipe out the world's most powerful leaders.

Directed by Babak Najafi, the follow - up to the surprisingly successful gritty actioner Olympus Has Fallen finds Gerard Butler «s Secret Service head accompanying the President of the United States (Aaron Eckhart) to the London funeral of the British Prime Minister, which just so happens to have been a set up to assassinate the U.S. President.

He is approached by British intelligence service MI5 and tasked with a secret mission to obtain information about a British government minister (Roache) and his wife (Hawes), whom he has recently befriended.

This time, in the script most recently drafted by Christian Gedegast, «a U.S. Secret Service agent (Butler), the U.S. president (Eckhart) and the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (Freeman) are attending the funeral of the British prime minister when all hell breaks loose (again).»

Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) has already been cast in the lead as the famous thief from Nottingham, and the filmmakers have set about finding their leading lady and have shortlisted British actress Gugu -LSB-...]

Secret Service Agent Mike Banning played by Gerard Butler is loose on the streets of the British capital running from terrorists with Aaron Eckhart as the President.

He will star in Kingsman: The Secret Service as Gary «Eggsy» Unwin in February 2015 and will be a part of the upcoming British drama film Testament of Youth as Edward Brittain.

London Has Fallen (R for graphic violence and pervasive profanity) Adrenaline - fueled sequel, set in England, finds Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) joining forces with an MI6 Agent (Charlotte Riley) to foil a plot to assassinate the the President of the U.S. (Aaron Eckhart) and other leaders of the Free World attending the funeral of the British Prime Minister.