I have added a page for The Foot Soldiers with my review of he book. Personally I think its one of Gerald Seymour’s best books in years. It deals with Russia and Putin’s regime so feels especially topical now with the invasion of Ukraine. Highly recommended.
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An evening with Gerald Seymour – Cardiff
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 Crocodile Hunter paperback release
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.
The Foot Soldiers cover image
A cover image for The Foot Soldiers, the next novel by Gerard Seymour, has appeared online.
The publication date is currently 31 March 2022, pretty much exactly six months away.
The Foot Soldiers blurb and publication date
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.
The Crocodile Hunter review added
We are (hopefully) heading toward publication of The Crocodile Hunter in two weeks so I have gone ahead and 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.
The Crocodile Hunter is currently scheduled for release on 15 April 2021.
The Crocodile Hunter Publication Date Change
Just a quick note that the publication date of The Crocodile Hunter has been put back a couple of months from February to 15 April 2021.
This is due to the ongoing pandemic where bookshops are closed under lockdown restrictions.
The Crocodile Hunter – Cover Image, Blurb and Release Date
Here is the cover image, blurb and release date for the new Gerald Seymour novel, The Crocodile Hunter.
A thrilling story of the secret services, their enemies and the society they operate in, building with unrelenting suspense to a superb climax, The Crocodile Hunter is Gerald Seymour writing at the top of his powers.
In the office at MI5 where he works, they call Jonas Merrick ‘the eternal flame’. It isn’t a compliment. It’s because he never goes out. He never goes undercover, never does surveillance, never goes with the teams that kick down the doors or seize the suspects off the street. He commutes into work and sits at his desk and then he goes home.
But Jonas has qualities the hot-shots fail to notice: a steely concentration, a ruthless ability to focus and find the enemy hiding in plain sight.
Hearing of a British Jihadi returning from Syria with murderous plans, Jonas sends out for a telling photograph: a crocodile, almost submerged, just its eyes above water as it waits for unsuspecting prey to drink at the riverbank.
Coming ashore near Dover, Cameron Jilkes is a young man from a broken home and a failed education, trained in the harshest theatre of war, driven to rage by loss and pain.
And this time, ‘the eternal flame’ must go out – to hunt the crocodile himself.
The Crocodile Hunter is published in hardback and ebook in the UK on 18 February 2021.
Beyond Recall paperback
Just a quick update to say that the most recent Gerald Seymour novel is out in paperback from tomorrow. The official publication date for Beyond Recall is 12 November 2020.
Kindle edition
Paperback
Next book is titled Crocodile Hunter
It seems we have the title of next year’s book. According to both amazon.co.uk and fantasticfiction the next book is called Crocodile Hunter.
Based on comments Gerald Seymour made on his Facebook page, crocodiles refer to ISIS sleeper cells in Europe.
Thanks to Ross for the alert.