Jonas Merrick returns in another uncannily topical novel from one of the greatest thriller writers of our time.
Gerald Seymour Livres
25 novembre 1941
Gerald Seymour est un célèbre romancier britannique dont l'œuvre puise profondément dans sa vaste expérience de correspondant à l'étranger. Ses récits se caractérisent par une intrigue complexe et un œil avisé sur les tensions géopolitiques et les opérations clandestines qui façonnent le monde moderne. Seymour mêle magistralement suspense et réalisme ancré, explorant souvent les motivations complexes des individus pris dans le feu croisé des conflits mondiaux. Sa transition du journalisme à l'écriture de fiction à temps plein a conféré à ses histoires une urgence authentique et un regard sans concession sur les conséquences du pouvoir.
A group of young Soviet Jews let their idealism get the better of them and they kill a policeman. One of their number is quickly captured and the others panic. They decide to hijack an airliner on an internal flight in order to escape to the West. Surely they will be welcomed ... They are not. No country in Western Europe wants to deal with this political hot-potato and the plane is forced to divert from country to country as it runs out of fuel. Finally it lands in southern England and a tense stand-off begins.
A Song in the Morning
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
A son's race against time to rescue his father from death row in South Africa.
Barney Crispin, a Captain in the SAS, is a tough as they come. He is sent on an urgent mission to the Afghanistan border: to destroy one of the Soviet Mi-24 helicopters, a highly sophisticated and virtually invulnerable piece of military equipment, and retrieve the hardware. In order to do so, he needs the help of the Mujahidin resistance and must first train them in the ways of stealth and sabotage. But the guerillas he trains are ill-equipped and disorganised. Their attempt fails and several of them are killed in the process. Against orders and with only eight missiles and a local boy as his guide, Barney decides to undertake the mission alone, his own solitary battle for vengeance...
The first-ever returning central character in Seymour's storied career - Jonas Merrick, MI5's grumpy old man from The Crocodile Hunter, must find a mole in MI6 and thwart a Russian assassination.
A classic thriller from a master of the genre.
Holding the zero
- 524pages
- 19 heures de lecture
Gus Peake should have kept his job and stayed at home, but an old family debt of friendship draws him to the remote wastes of Northern Iraq and to a savage forgotten war between Kurdish guerrillas and Saddam Hussein’s military strength.To the brutal, no-quarter combat, Peake can bring the skills he has learned as a marksman. But there is no room for mistakes on the field of battle and he must quickly learn to deal out random death at long distance and help the guerrillas to reach their goal, the city of Kirkuk, the old capital of the Kurdish people.From Baghdad, Iraq sends Major Karim Azia, the most dedicated and professional sniper in Saddam’s army. For both men their duel, from which only one can walk away, becomes an obsession. And it will only take one shot, echoing in the mountains and valleys, to settle the score.
The Contract
- 431pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Set against a backdrop of the treacherous East/West German border, this tells of the journey into redemption for a disgraced British army officer who requires the defection of a top flight Soviet scientist.
Battle Sight Zero
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
The brand new novel from 'Britain's finest thriller novelist' (i Paper on A Damned Serious Business)
"For the Minister the street exploded in noise. He felt the iron-hammer blow of the 7.62 mm shell crashing into his chest, tearing through the soft fleshand shattering his backbone." Intelligence Officer Harry Brown arrives in Belfast to try and find the minister's killer. He is immediately involved in the 'game of urban terrorism' - a game where there can only be losers.
