Gerald Seymour, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (358p) ISBN 978-0-06-100968-6
Seymour (The Running Target), who can stand comparison to Graham Greene, returns with another spirited, resonant thriller, this one focusing on Bosnia. The story is told mostly in flashback, as, in 1995, a British official reviews a file on a series
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Gerald Seymour. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-07565-9
British author Seymour returns, with mixed results, to the conflict between the Irish Republican Army and Great Britain that catalyzed his first novel, Harry’s Game (1975). In the present day, tensions in Northern Ireland are on the rise. Two...
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Gerald Seymour. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-05885-0
MI5’s Winnie Monks, the protagonist of this joyless, repetitive thriller from Seymour (The Dealer and the Dead), reassembles her scattered Graveyard Team of organized crime investigators to avenge the murder of young agent Damian Fenby five years...
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Gerald Seymour. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-01878-6
A war crime propels this stellar thriller from Edgar-finalist Seymour (Harry’s Game). One night during the Balkan conflict of the early 1990s, four Croat fighters crouch in a cornfield outside the town of Vukovar in eastern Slavonia as they wait for
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Gerald Seymour. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-01880-9
Veteran thriller writer Seymour’s outstanding 26th novel chronicles a British “interdiction” mission in contemporary Iraq and Iran. MI6 agent Len Gibbons assembles a team charged with the “deniable” assassination of “the Engineer,” an Iranian bomb...
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Gerald Seymour. Overlook, $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-59020-699-7
In the prologue to this dense spy novel from Seymour (The Collaborator), a disgruntled KGB agent who’s recently lost his job, Maj. Oleg Yashkin, secretly buries a suitcase-sized nuclear device in a remote patch of what until recently used to be the...
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Gerald Seymour, Overlook, $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-59020-446-7
An underdeveloped romance undermines the hard-edged realism of this contemporary thriller from British author Seymour (Timebomb). When 25-year-old Immacolata Borelli rushes to Naples from London on learning that her closest friend, Marianna Rossetti,
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Gerald Seymour, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-684-85476-2
Seymour, whose tales of international intrigue cover much the same ground as John le Carr 's (Red Fox, Harry's Game), but are grittier and less polished, has come up with a particularly strong entry this time out. Tracy Barnes is a corporal in...
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Gerald Seymour, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-101195-5
Seymour's popularity with critics and readers doesn't depend on his ability as a stylist; he writes serviceably, but usually not with elegance. It's tremendous narrative drive that has made most of his previous thrillers (The Heart of Danger) so...
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Gerald Seymour, Author . Overlook $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-58567-634-7
The plot of Seymour's skilled thriller could be a contemporary headline—"Al Qaeda Terrorist Escapes; Allies Pursue Through Desert"—but it wouldn't communicate the depth and density of the novel, which gets so deep under...
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Gerald Seymour, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-05201-0
Ordered to ``shape up'' his field agents, Mattie Furniss takes a perilous trip to the Middle East as this outstanding thriller begins. Mattie heads up the Iran Desk of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), and only Charlie Eshraq has been...
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Gerald Seymour, Author Avon Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70780-5
When the British ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and his secretary are murdered in Yalta by a Palestinian terrorist, Peter Holt witnesses the crime and is soon on the killer's trail. ``Seymour's 10th novel displays the literary excellence and informed...
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Gerald Seymour, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-688-07914-7
Seymour's 10th novel displays the literary excellence and informed perceptions that mark his earlier books, from Harry's Game through A Song in the Morning. This story starts in Yalta with the murders of the British ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and...
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Gerald Seymour, Author W. W. Norton & Company $16.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-393-02409-8
The author tops Harry's Game and seven later successes with this new novel, the plot of which ramifies into extraordinary dimensions, affecting many people. The catalyst is the arrest of a British agent, James Curwen (aka Jeez Carew), in...
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Gerald Seymour, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-684-85477-9
Cleverly observed smalltown social dynamics, brilliantly paced suspense and a plot driven as much by character as action prove again why English thriller writer Seymour (Dead Ground; The Journeyman Taylor) is a master of the form. Five years ago,...
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Gerald Seymour, Author . Overlook $24.95 (413p) ISBN 978-1-59020-005-6
This chillingly believable thriller from British author Seymour (Rat Run
) charts the course of a shy young terrorist from Saudi Arabia, Ibrahim Hussein (known as a “walking dead†for the explosive vest he wears), as Hussein works his way closer
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Gerald Seymour, Author . Overlook $24.95 (412p) ISBN 978-1-58567-894-5
Anglophiles with a taste for the dark side will enjoy the latest thriller from British author Seymour (The Unknown Soldier
), despite an overly complicated plot involving drug trafficking and Mideast terrorism. Malachy Kitchen loses his job with...
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Gerald Srymour, Author, Gerald Seymour, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (336p) ISBN 978-0-688-10631-7
Seymour ( Running Target ) utilizes a solid knowledge of Middle East politics, diplomatic protocol and the international intelligence community to weave a plausible scenario of prewar Iraqi skulduggery. An unlikely eyewitness to the murder of a CIA...
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Gerald Seymour. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-12369-5
Bernardo Cancello, the 74-year-old mob boss at the center of this labyrinthine thriller from Edgar-finalist Seymour (Vagabond), rules a clan that’s part of the ’Ndrangheta crime association in Calabria. Bernardo is worth more than €400 million, but...
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