A Duty of Care – blurb appears

And we have a blurb for next year’s novel, A Duty of Care…
Jonas Merrick – a legendary intelligence analyst for MI5 – has been banished to the Post Room of Thames House. There, he is expected to pass his remaining days before inevitable retirement. In a Russian gulag, an MI6 agent has developed an unlikely passion for a prisoner and has come up with an ingenious plan to free her. The key: a ruthless Albanian gang laundering the dirty money of the Russian elite. Merrick, the only agent with the experience to help, is brought back once again to intercept the Albanian courier until an exchange is organised by the Russians. But when it transpires that the courier is the heir of the criminal gang’s leader, the danger mounts, and Merrick once again finds himself in a situation spiralling towards a bloody confrontation. Frighteningly topical and intensely plotted, Jonas Merrick – one of the great figures of modern spy fiction – returns.
A Duty of Care is published on 1 April 2025.

The Best Revenge – out now

The new Gerald Seymour novel, The Best Revenge, is officially published on 2nd January 2024. But if you’re lucky you might find a copy now. I managed to get a copy of the hardback today in a branch of Waterstones.

Its a significant book as it marks the 40th thriller by Gerald Seymour. It’s also the 4th book in the Jonas Merrick series.

I didn’t recieve a review copy this year so I’ve not had a chance to read it yet. My review will come along eventually.

Happy hunting!

In at the Kill review

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Publication of the third Jonas Merrick novel In at the Kill is later this month so I have added my review of the book to its own dedicated page.

Many thanks to the kind folk at Hodder books for sending me an advance reading copy.

In At The Kill is scheduled for release on 19 January 2023.

A Line in the Sand is 20 years old

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It’s hard to believe but it’s now twenty years since A Line in the Sand was published in hardback. I remember it coming out in January and a check of Amazon UK confirms it was published on 2 January 1999.

It was Gerald Seymour’s eighteenth novel so it’s sits halfway between Harry’s Game and the latest book Battle Sight Zero.

A Line In the Sand was the story of a man who had given information to the intelligence services which lead to the deaths of people working on Iranian weapons programs. He’s given a new identity back in England. However the Iranians find out where he is an send an assassin to take revenge.

It was later adapted as a TV drama with Ross Kemp.

On a personal note this was one of the few Gerald Seymour novels I didn’t have a hardback copy of as I had bought the book as a trade paperback. Recently I got a hardback copy (via a popular internet auction site). Only then I realised I was buying my copy exactly twenty years late.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get around to revisiting the book with my nice “new” hardback sometime this year.

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