Rip Tide by Stella Rimington

I am enjoying this spy series starring intrepid British intelligence agent Liz Carlyle even though I'm reading the books totally out of order as I find them at the library. So in one book a main character is dead but in the next book I find that same character is alive and kicking, which is a little jarring.

Anyway, this episode starts with a ship being hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The investigation shows that this may lead back to a mosque in Birmingham, England. So Liz and her sidekick/researcher Peggy set off to unravel the clues and figure out what is coming next. Good stories, good characters.