Gerald Seymour

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Title: The Waiting Time: Description:
The ultimate post-cold war thriller from the bestselling author of Killing Ground.

Title: The Journeyman Tailor: Description:
The "journeyman tailor" of the title is a figure of myth who betrayed the legendary Shane Bearnagh Donnelly to the English dragoons, and is the ghostly presence in this thriller. Set in Ireland, this is the story of an informer in an IRA cell and his handlers in British Intelligence.

Title: The Unknown Soldier: Description:
Alarmingly prescient and utterly chilling... Exquisitely paced and written, this is one of the best thrillers of the year. ----- Irish Independent. A writer who knows exactly what pressure to exert and when. Once into the final 150 pages, you will not stop for a cup of tea or even breathe much. ---Guardian

Title: The Contract: Description:
Political Thriller

Title: Killing Ground: Description:
Corgi, 1998.the best mafia thriller since mario puzo' the godfarther.

Title: Home Run: Description:
A thriller involving intelligence agents in Iran during the time of the Shah's rule and the regime of Ayatollah Khomeini. Matthew Furniss is ordered to the Middle East to fortify his remaining agents and stimulate a much needed flow of information, a journey which proves to be dangerous.

Title: In Honour Bound: Description:
A thriller from the author of AT CLOSE QUARTERS and KINGFISHER. An SAS Captain is sent to the Afghanistan border to organise a search and destroy mission. From the Publisher A thrilling classic from a master of the genre. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. About the Author Once a reporter for Independent Television News, Gerald Seymour has lived in the West Country for several years. His bestselling novels include Harry’s Game, The Glory Boys, Field of Blood, Killing Ground, A Line in the Sand, Holding the Zero, The Untouchable, Traitor’s Kiss, The Unknown Soldier, and Rat Run. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: Harry's Game: Description:
A British cabinet minister is gunned down by an IRA assassin The police trail goes cold, and undercover agent Harry Brown is sent to infiltrate the terrorist organization and get the killer.

Title: The Heart Of Danger: Description:
In a wrecked Croat village, a mass grave is uncovered and the mutilated body of a young English woman is exhumed. Dorrie's mother becomes obsessed with the need to find out about her death and turns to Bill Penn, a private investigator. His search becomes an epic journey into a merciless war where the odds are stacked high against him.

Title: The Journeyman Tailor: Description:
The "journeyman tailor" of the title is a figure of myth who betrayed the legendary Shane Bearnagh Donnelly to the English dragoons, and is the ghostly presence in this thriller. Set in Ireland, this is the story of an informer in an IRA cell and his handlers in British Intelligence.

Title: The Glory Boys: Description:
When Abdel-El-Famy, a Palestinian zealot and would be terrorist is sent with two others to assassinate a leading Israeli nuclear scientist giving a lecture in London, he knows that there is little prospect of a safe return. Yet he feels no fear. Famy is prepared to sacrifice himself for his cause, for if he succeeds he knows that the reverberations will be felt throughout the Western World.

Title: A Line In The Sand: Description:
Frank used to spy on Iranian chemical and biological weapons installations, sometimes damaging the weapons. Iran has been patiently waiting to exact revenge. Frank is now under government protection in a Suffolk village. The Iranians see their chance and have dispatched their deadliest assassin to seek and kill. From the author of HARRY'S GAME.

Title: The Walking Dead: Description:
A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. He believes it will end with his death in faraway England. For honour, for glory, for victory. If his mission succeeds, he will go to his god a martyr - and many innocents will die with him. For David Banks, an armed protection officer charged with neutralising the growing menace to London's safety, his role is not as clear-cut as it once was. The certainties which ruled his thinking are no longer black and white. Banks has begun to realise that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Never have those distinctions been more dangerous to a police officer with his finger on the trigger - and to those who depend upon him. On a bright spring morning the two men's paths will cross. Before then, their commitment will be shaken by the journeys which take them there. The suicide bomber and the policeman will have equal cause to question the roads they've chosen. Win or lose, neither will be the same again..."The Walking Dead" is a breathtakingly suspenseful thriller about the world in which we live, with all its dangers and complexities.With intelligence and deep understanding, Seymour shows us the choices we are forced to make, and their consequences. It is one of the most excitingly contemporary and relevant novels you will ever read. From the Inside Flap A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. He believes it will end with his death in faraway England. For honour, for glory, for victory. If his mission succeeds, he will go to his god a martyr – and many innocents will die with him. For David Banks, an armed protection officer charged with neutralzing the growing menace to London’s safety, his role is not as clear-cut as it once was. The certainties that ruled his thinking are no longer black and white. Banks has begun to realize that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Never have those distinctions been more dangerous to a police officer with his finger on the trigger – and to those who depend upon him. On a bright spring morning the two men’s paths will cross. Before then, their commitment will be shaken by the journeys that take them there. The suicide bomber and the policeman will have equal cause to question the roads they’ve chosen. Win or lose, neither will be the same again … Closure is a breathtakingly suspenseful thriller about the world in which we live, with all its dangers and complexities. With intelligence and deep understanding, Seymour shows us the choices we are forced to make, and their consequences. It is one of the most excitingly contemporary and relevant novels you will ever read. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Author Gerald Seymour was one of the UK's premier television news reporters. He was an eyewitness, up close and on the ground, to some of the epoch changing events of the last decades. Among them, he was on the streets of Londonderry on Bloody Sunday when paratroops clashed with Irish demonstrators. He was at the Munich Olympics and saw the agony of Israeli athletes held hostage by Palestinian gunmen and then the catastrophic failure of the German police to save them. He was in Rome in the cruel days when the Red Brigade captured Aldo Moro, a veteran politician, then savagely murdered him. His first novel, Harry's Game, was an instant bestseller and immediately established Seymour as one of the most cutting-edge and incisive thriller writers in the UK and around the world. Since then, his extraordinary blend of breathtaking storytelling and current events prescience have held his many readers in his spell.

Title: A Line In The Sand: Description:
Frank used to spy on Iranian chemical and biological weapons installations, sometimes damaging the weapons. Iran has been patiently waiting to exact revenge. Frank is now under government protection in a Suffolk village. The Iranians see their chance and have dispatched their deadliest assassin to seek and kill. From the author of HARRY'S GAME. From the Publisher The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of The Waiting Time. From the Back Cover In a village on the Suffolk coast, Frank Perry waits for his past to arrive. A decade before he spied for the Government on the Iranian chemical and biological weapon installations. His information damaged their killing capacity for years. Now, Iran will have its revenge and has despatched their most deadly assassin to fulfil the task. Codenamed the Anvil, he will move with stealth towards his chosen objective unless Perry's protectors can reach him first. As he draws nearer, the ring of steel around Perry grows tighter. But against a faceless adversary, and with the job fatally compromised by the stifling political bureaucracy surrounding it, there seems little chance that the past will not have its day once more... About the Author Once a reporter for Independent Television News, Gerald Seymour has lived in the West Country for several years. His bestselling novels include Harry’s Game, The Glory Boys, Field of Blood, Killing Ground, A Line in the Sand, Holding the Zero, The Untouchable, Traitor’s Kiss, The Unknown Soldier, and Rat Run.

Title: Condition Black: Description:
Just prior to the invasion of Kuwait, Bill Erlich, a young FBI operative, is hard on the heels of a terrorist. As he blunders in to the lines by which the Iraqi puppet-masters control their undercover agents in England, Bill realises he has gone beyond the point of recall. He is engaged in Condition Black - lethal assault in progress. From the Publisher A thrilling classic from a master of the genre. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. From the Back Cover It is only months before Saddam Hussein instructs his troops to invade Kuwait, and the Iraqis will stop at nothing to achieve nuclear capability. They are actively targeting scientists from the West who can help them acquire the intelligence they need. When Bill Erlich, a young FBI agent, learns that one of his closest friends has been murdered in Athens, he vows that he will find the killer, even if it means breaking the rules. The man he suspects is a British mercenary known as Colt, who has been working for the Iraqi government, and is as elusive as he is dangerous. Erlich follows Colt to England, where he has been dispatched to recruit a disaffected nuclear scientist. Determined to bring Colt to justice at whatever cost, Erlich crosses an invisible line beyond which there is no return... --This text refers to the Paperback edition. About the Author Once a reporter for Independent Television News, Gerald Seymour has lived in the West Country for several years. His bestselling novels include Harry’s Game, The Glory Boys, Field of Blood, Killing Ground, A Line in the Sand, Holding the Zero, The Untouchable, Traitor’s Kiss, The Unknown Soldier, and Rat Run. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: Home Run: Description:
Matthew Furniss is ordered to the Middle East by British Intelligence to fortify his remaining agents and stimulate a flow of information when the British spy network has been decimated by Ayatollah Khomeini's Revolution. Gerald Seymour has also written "At Close Quarters". From the Publisher A thrilling classic from a master of the genre. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. From the Back Cover It is an unwritten rule in the Intelligence Services that Desk Heads never travel. But when Mattie Furniss is ordered to improve the quality of information coming out of Iran by travelling to the region, it is easy to see that desperation is in the air. In such circumstances, risks are taken and corners cut. And it isn't long before Iran's spymasters are all too aware of his purpose... Unknown to him, Mattie's mission is also about to be blown wide open by other political pressures. When a leading politician's daughter dies of a heroin overdose, the British establishment demands a crackdown on the Iranian traffickers. And with one of his own agents pursuing an unsanctioned war of vengeance in Iran. Mattie is soon alone in the spider's web. In a hostile environment where his every move is tracked, he becomes quickly and painfully aware that the fate of the few will always be sacrificed to the greater good... --This text refers to the Paperback edition. About the Author Once a reporter for Independent Television News, Gerald Seymour has lived in the West Country for several years. His bestselling novels include Harry’s Game, The Glory Boys, Field of Blood, Killing Ground, A Line in the Sand, Holding the Zero, The Untouchable, Traitor’s Kiss, The Unknown Soldier, and Rat Run. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: Field Of Blood: Description:
A paperback edition of a thriller last published by Collins/Fontana. Two men, one an ex IRA man and the other a reluctant British Lieutenant, become pawns in a deadly political game of cat and mouse. By the author of THE JOURNEYMAN TAILOR, THE HEART OFDANGER and KILLING GROUND.

Title: At Close Quarters: Description:
A thriller from the author of IN HONOUR BOUND and KINGFISHER. A diplomat and a master sniper venture underground into the Beqa'a valley, on a dangerous near-suicide mission to find one man. Amongst some of the most revolutionary Palestinian guerilla groups, their cover is blown.

Title: Rat Run: Description:
In the military family there is no worse crime than cowardice. Malachy Kitchen, Intelligence officer, posted to Iraq, appears guilty of it while on patrol with an infantry platoon ambushed by insurgents. When word spreads that he was 'yellow' under hostile fire, his life starts to disintegrate. Kicked out of the army, he becomes an isolated recluse in a drugs infested London estate. But the mugging of his neighbour, an elderly widow, by addicts lights the flame that draws him to regain his lost pride, to take the fight to the narcotics network he sees around him. But it is not so simple - because the drugs routes have been colonised by other factions who want to deliver equally dangerous packages around the world. And if Malachy is to complete his quest, he must first enter one of the darker alleyways of life... From the Publisher The breathtaking new thriller from bestselling author Gerald Seymour. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. From the Inside Flap All traces of self-esteem have been brutally stripped from Malachy Kitchen, an Intelligence officer posted to Iraq. He is accused of cowardice while on patrol with an infantry platoon ambushed by insurgents. Word spreads that he ran under hostile fire. In the military family there is no worse crime. Humiliated and broken, kicked out of the army, Malachy sinks into despair. He becomes an isolated recluse in a drug-infested London estate. But the mugging of an elderly widow by addicts lights a flame that draws him to fight to regain his lost pride. His target is the network of narcotics traders. Pushers, dealers, suppliers are that network, and at their head is Ricky Capel, a crime baron importing heroin into the UK. Untouchable up to now, Capel will have to confront an enemy more driven than any of the policemen he has so far successfully outwitted. Capel is fighting a war on only one front, but when his Albanian associates demand that he uses his drug route to ferry an Islamic fanatic to Britain, suddenly he is vulnerable from other directions … From the Back Cover The Unknown Soldier: ‘A superb feat of storytelling from a master of his craft.’Sunday TelegraphThe Untouchable: ‘A clever, informed and worldly cynical story about arrogance, obsession and tragedy.’The Times Holding the Zero: ‘Refreshingly original … Another gem from the master of the modern adventure story.’The Times A Line in the Sand: ‘Brilliantly written and deserving of the Booker Prize, if only it wasn't so populist.’Mail on Sunday About the Author Gerald Seymour:Once a reporter for Independent Television News, Gerald Seymour has lived in the West Country for several years. His bestselling novels include, among others, Harry's Game, The Glory Boys, Red Fox, Field of Blood, The Heart of Danger, Killing Ground, The Waiting Time, A Line in the Sand, Holding the Zero, The Untouchable and most recently, Traitor's Kiss.

Title: At Close Quarters: Description:
A diplomat and an Israeli master-sniper plan to walk by night into the Beqa'a valley in east Lebanon, home of Palestinian revolutionary groups, in search of one man. They are far into the Beqa'a, out of reach, when their cover is blown and Syrian Intelligence alerted to their approach. From the Publisher A thrilling classic from a master of the genre. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. From the Back Cover Peter Holt, a young diplomat, witnesses the horrific murder of his fiance and the British Ambassador within days of a new posting to the Soviet Union. The report of the murder lands on the desk of a British Intelligence officer who suspects Palestinian involvement, although the Russians insist that it was not a terrorist attack. The British government are determined to extract revenge and Holt is the only man able to identify the assassin. He is sent to the Lebanon and the perilous Beqa'a Valley, which serves as a stronghold for the most extreme guerilla groups. Unauthorised access to the valley is virtually impossible, and capture by the Syrian Army would result in torture and death. His only company is Noah Crane, an Israeli expert sniper, who acts as his mentor and guide. But when Syrian Intelligence learn of their presence, their cover is blown. And now it is too late to turn back. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. About the Author Once a reporter for Independent Television News, Gerald Seymour has lived in the West Country for several years. His bestselling novels include Harry’s Game, The Glory Boys, Field of Blood, Killing Ground, A Line in the Sand, Holding the Zero, The Untouchable, Traitor’s Kiss, The Unknown Soldier, and Rat Run. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Title: The Waiting Time: Description:
On a winter's night at the height of the Cold War, in a small town on the Baltic coast of East Germany, a young man is dragged from the sea and killed by the regime's secret police . The witnesses are terrorized into silence. But a British woman is present and hears the shot which ended her lover's life. " A decade later , times have changed ; the Wall dividing two great ideologies has crumbled , and old enemies have become new friends . An ex-captain in the Stasi's counter-espionage section, Dieter Krause is a feted guest at the headquarters of British military intelligence. He is a prized asset, able to give a detailed profile of a rising star in the Russian Ministry of Defence. He is confident that the skeletons in his past are hidden until...

Title: Traitor's Kiss: Description:
The english trawler strays into Russian waters. When it returns, the captain has a package to deliver to British intelligence. For the next four years a high ranked Russian naval office, Viktor Archenko, passes valuable infomation to MI6. Suddenly the flow of information stops. His contacts in London know nothing about him - but they know that he's under suspicion. The time has come to get him out.

Title: Condition Black: Description:
Bill Elrich, a young FBI agent vows to find his friends murderer even if it means breaking the rules. The suspect Colt works for Iraqi goverment and is as elusive as he is dangerous

Title: Rat Run: Description:
In the military family there is no worse crime than cowardice. Malachy Kitchen, Intelligence officer, posted to Iraq, appears guilty of it while on patrol with an infantry platoon ambushed by insurgents. When word spreads that he was ‘yellow’ under hostile fire, his life starts to disintegrate.Kicked out of the army, he becomes an isolated recluse in a drugs infested London estate. But the mugging of his neighbour of an elderly widow by addicts lights the flame that draws him to regain his lost pride and to take the fight to the narcotics network he sees around him. But it is not so simple –because the drugs routes have been colonized by other factions who want to deliver equally dangerous packages around the world. And if Malachy is to complete his quest, he must first enter one of the darker alleyways of life . . .From the Hardcover edition.

Title: A Line In The Sand :: Description:
A Line In The Sand

Title: Timebomb: Description:
In 1992, after being fired from a top secret nuclear facility, a top KGB man buried a nuclear suitcase. Sixteen years later he has found a buyer for it.An exchange point in Eastern Europe is agreed upon. Travelling with the buyer is an undercover policeman, working for M16. But as their shadowy journey across Europe begins, it becomes clear to a top psychiatrist at M16, that their man may be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and the whole operation is very likely to be thrown into jeopardy.

Title: The Untouchable: Description:
Europe spanning crime thriller

Title: In Honour Bound: Description:
Barney Crispin, SAS Captain, is sent urgently to the Afghanistan border on the direct order of the Foreign Secretary. His mission is to organize the destruction of one of the new Soviet helicopters and to bring its secret parts back to Britain.