About the book: year / Liz Carlisle looked at her watch. The French interior minister was in full swing, waxing lyrical about the new security threats facing Europe. From where Liz sat, in the back row of seats arranged in the library of the Institute for Strategic Studies in Whitehall, she could survey the entire room. On the front line, French and English officials, senior police and military officers sat next to journalists who scribbled eagerly in their notebooks. In the depths, away from the television cameras, various French and British spies were grouped. This Friday morning saw a press conference concluding the Anglo-French ministerial security summit that had taken place the previous day..