Just a quick note to say that the 42nd (!) novel by Gerald Seymour, and the sixth to feature Jonas Merrick, titled The Irregular, is now out in the UK in hardback.
My copy arrived in the post this morning courtesy of the kind folk at Hodder, plus I spotted a copy in my local Waterstones.
My review to follow once I find the time to read the book. (A good problem to have.)
Information has appeared online about the next Gerald Seymour novel, titled The Irregular. By my count it will be the sixth Jonas Merrick book and the 42nd novel overall.
Here’s the blurb…
The Metropolitan Police have an unsolvable problem: ‘Lachy’ Wilson is a ruthless and obscenely rich British drugs lord who has bought off dozens of their officers. Thanks to these informants, no one can lay a glove on Wilson and he is considered ‘untouchable’.
Wilson is dreaming of one last, game-changing shipment of heroin into the UK. The Met turn to the outside for help. Jonas Merrick is an MI5 officer, unspectacular in his own right but spectacular in the success he’s had in dangerous counter terrorist operations. Can he thwart the drugs plot?
Jonas has an ace in the hole: Kenny ‘Chopper’ Harris is an ex-paratrooper and soon to be ex-member of the Flying Squad, looking for a new home, new loyalties. Jonas recruits him to get close to Wilson’s Achilles’s heel: Julie Wilson is the heir apparent to the family drugs empire and Lachy’s go-between. Julie, like Chopper, is a lost soul – she dreams of life outside her father’s brutal orbit. Her fate is about to change at their first meeting. A bond is formed, a resolution is made: Chopper will get her free of her family, if she’ll betray her mission.
Soon their desperate game of deception begins – a game which will inevitably end in a bloody denouement.
And here’s the cover image.
The Irregular will be published on 15 January 2026.
I just spotted a publication date of 3 July for the paperback of A Duty of Care. Which means it’s apparently out now, only three months since the hardback was published. I’ll keep an eye out for it in the wild.
The cover image for the next Jonas Merrick novel, A Duty of Care, has been revealed.
The publication date is still set for 1 April 2025.
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.
Just a quick reminder that today, 19th January 2023, is the publication day of In At The Kill, the third Jonas Merrick novel. You can read my review here.
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.
The cover for the next novel, In At The Kill, has appeared on Amazon UK
In At The Kill, the third Jonas Merrick novel, is set for release on 19 January 2023.
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.
Just a quick reminder that the latest Gerald Seymour novel The Foot Soldiers was published in hardback today in the UK.