Category: Gerald Seymour

New novel details- The Best Revenge

Gerald Seymour

Details of the next Gerald Seymour novel have appeared online. Titled The Best Revenge, it is the fourth Jonas Merrick novel and is to be published on 2 January 2024.

Here’s the blurb…

On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People’s Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield.

In Bath a young Chinese woman has secured the affections of a young brainiac working on that very problem.

In Leamington Spa a deep cover operative has given himself away.

And in London Jonas Merrick watches all, assessing, planning. A moment, perhaps, for him to strike a blow to China’s espionage network in the UK.

One thing he does not see, however, is in Moscow. An order given: ‘bring me his head’.

Tautly plotted and frighteningly authentic Best Served Cold cements Jonas Merrick as one of the great figures of modern spy fiction.

New novel – In At The Kill

Gerald Seymour

I just spotted a listing for the third Jonas Merrick novel on Amazon:

Liverpool: a suburban crime family grips a whole city with fear.

And their ambition reaches further still.

Galicia: an entire community waits on the windswept edge of Europe for the delivery of four tonnes of cocaine, brought across the ocean in an almost unbelievable craft.

London: Jonas Merrick, grey and quiet, alone in a small office, seems an unlikely character to be tasked with bringing down an international drug network.

But while Jonas’s colleagues regard him as scratchy, fastidious, old, he is also ruthless, cunning and brutally pragmatic. And he has a man on the inside: a would-be money-launderer on that wild Spanish coast. A man who has been undercover for so long, he has almost forgotten who he really is.

And he is due to come home. Has to. For he will be given no mercy if he is caught.

But Jonas needs him to stay.

The superb Jonas Merrick is fast becoming one of the great figures of British spy fiction. In At The Kill may be his most compelling story yet.

In At The Kill is published in hardback on 19 January 2023.

An evening with Gerald Seymour – Cardiff

Gerald Seymour

Susanna got in touch to let me know about an upcoming public appearance by Gerald Seymour in Cardiff.

An invitation to enjoy an evening in the company of Gerald Seymour as he talks about his life and work. There will also be an opportunity to purchase a personally signed copy of his latest book the Foot Soldiers and/or paperbacks of his other titles.

An evening with Gerald Seymour
Date: Wednesday, 6th April 2022
Time: 7.00pm doors open for refreshments.
7.30pm Gerald talks about his work.
8.40pm Gerald selling and signing books
Venue: Park End Church. Cardiff. CF23 6EG

To book a free place please email hello@forl.wales

I’ve been fortunate to have already read an advance copy of The Foot Soldiers and it is one of Gerald Seymour’s best books in years. Set partly in Russia its a bit topical right now. In particular one senior GRU officer is working on an escape plan for the inevitable day when Putin’s regime crumbles.

Review to follow.

The Foot Soldiers blurb and publication date

Gerald Seymour

I have found a blurb for a new novel called the Foot Soldiers, due for publication on 31 March 2022.

Defectors are not always welcome. Is the information they bring worth the cost of protecting them for the rest of their lives? Is it even genuine? Might they be double agents?

These are some of the questions facing MI6 when a Russian agent hands himself in to them in Denmark.

As a team begins to assess his value, his former employers in the Kremlin develop a brutal plan to show that no defector will ever be safe.

And they know where to find him. Which means there must be a mole in MI6.

So it is that the cavaliers of Six find themselves being interrogated by nondescript Jonas Merrick of Five – the man called back from retirement and his beloved caravan, the man the young guns call the Eternal Flame because ‘he never goes out.’

But while he may be grey, Jonas is also ruthless. As he quietly works through the suspects in London, and violent mayhem breaks out in Denmark, Jonas plans not just to unmask a traitor, but to hit back at the Russians with deadly force.

First encountered in The Crocodile Hunter, Jonas Merrick is set to become one of the great figures of modern spy fiction.

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