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!
Just a quick note that the third Jonas Merrick book In At the Kill is now out in paperback in the UK
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 quick note that the most recent Gerald Seymour novel, The Crocodile Hunter, gets its UK paperback release tomorrow, 18th November 2021.
This is the first Jonas Merrick novel and it gets a sequel next year with the publication of the followup titled The Foot Soldiers.
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.
Just a quick reminder that Gerald Seymour’s latest novel titled Battle Sight Zero is officially published in hardback and paperback today in the UK.
My review can be found on the Battle Sight Zero page.
My review page for the new novel A Damned Serious Business Has now been added to the site.
The book is published in hardcover on 4 January 2018.
Thanks as always to Hodder books for the advance review copy.
I’ve added my review page for Jericho’s War to the site.
Many thanks to Hodder books for the review copy.
Jericho’s War is officially published in hardback on 5 January 2017.
I’ve just spotted the cover image and blurb for Jericho’s War, the next Gerald Seymour novel, on Amazon UK.
First the cover image…
And now the blurb…
In a moment of nerve shredding suspense that will affect many thousands of lives, a handful of men and women will converge on a barren stretch of Yemeni desert. Each of them will need spirit, courage and immense luck to survive the next forty-eight hours.
Corrie Rankin is already a legend at MI6 when he is called back with little regard for the horrors of his recent past. Corrie is sent to take advantage of a chance to take down a high value player in the war against Al Qaeda – and, a chance for the Brits to succeed without begging help from the Americans.
The sniper and his spotter who will go with Corrie are less than top team, but the best that can be found if the mission is to stay ‘deniable’.
And once the three misfits are in-country, they must rely on intelligence brought to them by a young British Jihadi – on the ground and close to the target – and now turned. And, close to him, is an archaeologist digging in the ruins of the Queen of Sheba’ civilisation who will be their cut-out contact point.
The mission is the brain-child of an apparently old, fat fool in a striped cricket blazer, a sweating figure of fun among the ex-pat community across the border in Muscat. This is Jericho … not as old or fat or foolish as he appears, nor as harmless.
This is Jericho’s War. The weapons it deploys, the brutal aims it pursues, are state of the art. The fear it breeds and the raw bravery it demands are as timeless as the desert itself.
That description certainly calls to mind some previous Seymour books such as At Close Quarters, Holding the Zero and A Deniable Death.
Jericho’s War is out in the UK on 5 January 2017
Today I stumbled upon a transcript of a talk that Gerald Seymour did with the late Terry Pratchett back in November 2001. I thought it might make interesting reading as we await the next novel.
You can find the transcript at theguardian.com.
Just a spot of context. 9/11 had just happened and the most recent Gerald Seymour book published was his 20th, The Untouchable, in August that year (if I recall correctly).
It is interesting to see Gerald Seymour say he had no idea where things were going after 9/11. Pratchett also mentions Gerald’s previous novel Holding the Zero and makes reference to a movie about a sniper called Enemy at the Gates which was out that year.
I’m just stunned that 2001 was 14 years ago! How on earth did that happen?