Tag: Vagabond

Yes, it’s that time again, tomorrow is New Gerald Seymour Paperback Day and Vagabond will be out in book shops.

Actually it’s out already. By which I mean that my local Tesco had it out on the shelves when I stopped by tonight. So you’ve no excuse not to buy it for a mere £3.85.*

* Insert generic disclaimer along the lines of “other book shops are available”…

Thanks to the nice folk at Hodder for the review copy of Vagabond which arrived this weekend. So here’s a preview of what is on the shelves later in the month…

Time for a quick reminder that tomorrow, 17 July, marks the UK publication of Gerald Seymour’s 31st novel, Vagabond.

Readers in the Hampshire area have a chance to meet Gerald Seymour next Wednesday. See the details below.

Meet the Author ~ Gerald Seymour
Petersfield Library, Hampshire.
Wednesday 23 July, 7.30pm.
Tickets £5.
Call 01730 267806

We’re delighted to welcome Gerald Seymour. Harry’s Game, published in 1975 and subsequently made into a series for television, was an instant bestseller. Gerald has since published a book every year.

‘Vagabond’ marks a return to Northern Ireland, his first book to be set there since the Good Friday agreement was put in place. His novels are all originally researched with carefully constructed observation and brilliant characterisation.

Gerald was a reporter for ITN covering stories including The Troubles, Vietnam, the Great Train Robbery and The Munich Olympics Massacre. He featured in the Oscar winning documentary ‘One Day in September’.

Come and hear Gerald in conversation about his fascinating career, from reporter to novelist.

I have added my review of vagabond to the site. You can read my review at www.geraldseymour.co.uk/vagabond. The book is published on 17 July 2014. Thanks to Hodder for my review copy.

A nice surprise was waiting for me when I got home from work this evening. My proof copy of the new novel by Gerald Seymour, Vagabond, has arrived.

Thanks to the nice folk at Hodder books for the review copy. The review will be up on this site in due course.

Vagabond will be published in the UK on 17 July 2014 which suddenly is not far off at all.

A larger cover image of the new Gerald Seymour novel, Vagabond, has now appeared on Amazon UK.

Interestingly (or not) they have changed the colour of the hoodie as seen in the previous image from red to green.

Vagabond is due out in the UK on 17 July 2014.

And here’s the blurb while I’m at it.

It was a dirty job in a dirty war.

Danny Curnow, known in the army family by his call sign, Vagabond, ran agents, informers. Played God with their lives and their deaths, and was the best at his job – and he quit when the stress overwhelmed him.

Now he lives in quiet isolation and works as a guide to tourists visiting the monuments and cemeteries of an earlier, simpler, conflict on Normandy’s D-Day beaches.

Until the call comes from an old boss, Bentinick.

Violence in Northern Ireland is on the rise again. Weapons are needed for a new campaign. Gaby Davies of MI5, sparky and ambitious, runs the double agent Ralph Exton, who will be the supposed middle man in brokering an arms deal with a Russian contact, Timofey.

The covert world of deception and betrayal was close to destroying Danny across the Irish Sea. Fifteen years later the stakes are higher, the risks greater, and there is an added agenda on the table. If he wants to survive, Danny will have to prove, to himself, that he has not softened, that he is as hard and ruthless as before.

VAGABOND shows Gerald Seymour writing at the top of his powers and returning to the territory of some of his greatest bestsellers, Harry’s Game, Field of Blood and The Journeyman Tailor.

I’ve just spotted this thumbnail image depicting the cover for the new novel Vagabond over at the Curtis Brown website.

Source: http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/gerald-seymour/vagabond/

As always these things are subject to change, but I imagine this will be close to the final cover.

Thanks to Brian for the alert that the Hodder website is listing a new Gerald Seymour book titled Vagabond for publication next year. 17 July 2014 to be exact, so just eight months to go!

Source: www.hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781444758597

Also thanks to Brian for finding this blurb.

It was a dirty job in a dirty war. Danny Curnow, known in the Army family as ‘Desperate Dan’ and in the secret files by his code name ‘Vagabond’, ran agents and informers – people blackmailed into betraying their own communities – in the years of conflict in Northern Ireland.

A high-stakes game, but a long time ago – before Danny quit, before the peace process. Now he lives quietly, working as a guide to the monuments and cemeteries of another, simpler war, on the D-Day beaches of Normandy.

Until the call comes from his old boss, Bentinick.
Not everyone in Northern Ireland has given up on violence. MI5 are planning a sting to destroy a resurgent terrorist cell and only Danny can make it work.

Soon, Danny and ambitious young Gaby Davies of MI5 are heading for Prague, where freelance double-agent Ralph Exton is leading Brendan Murphy on a mission to buy arms from Ralph’s Russian contact Timofey.

The covert world of deception and betrayal nearly destroyed Danny the first time. Fifteen years later, it hasn’t got any easier.

Vagabond shows Gerald Seymour writing at the top of his powers, and returning to the territory of some of his greatest bestsellers, Harry’s Game, The Journeyman Tailor and Field of Blood.

Source: www.curtisbrown.co.uk/gerald-seymour/vagabond/

So, interesting, a fourth Northern Ireland book!

Watch this space for further developments.