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.

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.
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.
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.
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.