Gerald Seymour Books

Jonas Merrick returns in another uncannily topical novel from one of the greatest thriller writers of our time.

Barney Crispin, a Captain in the SAS, is as tough as they come. He is sent on an urgent mission to the Afghanistan border: to destroy one of the Soviet Mi-24 helicopters, a highly sophisticated and virtually invulnerable piece of military equipment, and retrieve the hardware. In order to do so, he needs the help of the Mujahidin resistance and must first train them in the ways of stealth and sabotage. But the guerillas he trains are ill-equipped and disorganised. Their attempt fails and several of them are killed in the process. Against orders and with only eight missiles and a local boy as his guide, Barney decides to undertake the mission alone, his own solitary battle for vengeance...

The first-ever returning central character in Seymour's storied career - Jonas Merrick, MI5's grumpy old man from The Crocodile Hunter, must find a mole in MI6 and thwart a Russian assassination.

'I consider this author to be in a class of his own ... His writing is superb, his plots tight and his research authentic. He is just the best we have in this area.' Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller, 2008

A thrilling tale of a three man assassination squad whose target is Israel's leading nuclear scientist while he's on a visit to London.

Repaying old debts can have deadly consequences.

Set against a backdrop of the treacherous East/West German border, this tells of the journey into redemption for a disgraced British army officer who requires the defection of a top flight Soviet scientist.

The brand new novel from 'Britain's finest thriller novelist' (i Paper on A Damned Serious Business)

"For the Minister the street exploded in noise. He felt the iron-hammer blow of the 7.62 mm shell crashing into his chest, tearing through the soft fleshand shattering his backbone." Intelligence Officer Harry Brown arrives in Belfast to try and find the minister's killer. He is immediately involved in the 'game of urban terrorism' - a game where there can only be losers.

Two men, one a diplomat, the other a master sniper, venture undercover into the Beqa'a Valley, home to some of the most revolutionary Palestinian guerilla groups. The two men are on a dangerous near-suicide mission to find one man.

Doing a small job for British Intelligence turns into a major nightmare for a young man when he is arrested by the Soviet Secret Police and is sentenced to fifteen years in a bleak labour camp. A reissue from the author of A LINE IN THE SAND and A SONG IN THE MORNING.

'Seymour produces the most intelligent writing in the thriller genre' Financial Times *** He had been to the limit. Then they sent him further. Gary - 'Gaz' - Baldwin is a watcher,not a killer. Operating with a special forces unit deep in Syria,he is to sit in a hide,observe a village, report back and leave. But the appalling atrocity he witnesses will change his life forever. Before long,he is living as a handyman on the Orkney islands,far from Syria,far from the army, not far enough from the memories that have all but destroyed him. 'Knacker' is one of the last old-school operators at the modern MI6 fortress on the Thames. He presides over the Round Table,a little group who meet in a pub and yearn for simpler, less bureaucratic times. When news reaches Knacker that the Russian officer responsible for the Syrian incident may be in Murmansk,northern Russia,he sets in motion a plan to kill him. It will involve a sleeper cell,a marksman and other resources - all unlikely to be sanctioned by the MI6 top brass, so it must be done off the books. But first,he will need a sure identification. And for that, he needs a watcher... Full of surprise,suspense and betrayal,Beyond Recall is a searching novel of moral complexity and a story of desperate survival.

Jonas Merrick returns, this time to frustrate the efforts of the Chinese espionage network in the UK. Unbeknownst to him however, his previous activities are catching up to him as a Russian hit is put out against him.

Two young men - Jago and Marcantonio - both studying business and finance: Jago is a kid from a rough part of London who has worked hard to get a job in a bank and is now on a fast-track secondment to the Berlin office. Marcantonio is one of the new generation in the 'Ndrangheta crime families from Calabria, Southern Italy. He is in Germany to learn how to channel their illicit millions towards legitimate businesses all over Europe. When Jago witnesses Marcantonio commit a vicious assault and the police seem uninterested, the Englishman refuses to let the matter drop. But by pursuing the gangster to his grandfather's mountain lair, Jago is stepping into the middle of a delicate surveillance operation, which sets alarm bells ringing in Rome, London and Berlin. It also leads him to Consolata, a young woman who sees in Jago the chance to turn her non-violent protest campaign against the crime families into something altogether more lethal... NO MORTAL THING is novel of relentless power and mounting suspense, a brilliant portrayal of organised crime in Europe and the under-resourced men and women who fight it.

Two men, one an ex-IRA man and the other a reluctant British Lieutenant, become pawns in a deadly political game of cat-and-mouse.

In a village on the Suffolk coast Frank Perry waits for his past to arrive. A decade before, he spied for the government on the Iranian chemical and biological weapons installations. The information he provided damaged the Iranians killing capacity for y

A suicide bomber and policeman questioning his commitment to fighting terrorists meet in London.

Britain's finest thriller novelist is still the veteran Gerald Seymour, whose touch remains sure i Paper

In the villages and on the mountains of County Tyrone, in the heartland of the Provisional IRA's most active Brigade, the golden rule is 'Hear nothing, see nothing, know nothing'. To collaborate with British Intelligence is to invite an inescapable death sentence. But there is word on the mountain that inside the Brigade there is a 'tout', an informer. He will be identified, interrogated, tortured, then hooded and shot. Gary Brennard, the MI5 field agent, and Parker, who runs the informer, have to protect their man at all costs: he is the critical asset to hold on to until the stakes are high enough... and if the innocent step into the crossfire, that's just bad luck.

It is an unwritten rule in the Intelligence Services that desk heads never travel. But when Mattie Furniss is ordered to improve the quality of information coming out of Iran by travelling to the region, the risk must be taken.

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.

This is the moment that mi6 has been working an iranian soldier has been caught in a dubai honey trap and flown to a safe house for interrogation. He may only be a corporal in the revolutionary guard, but as chauffeur to a top general, he knows the location of secret nuclear and military sites and often overhears unguarded conversations in the car. It's a coup to put the brits one up on the americans and israelis. But the corporal won't talk unless they bring his wife out of iran too.the sas is asked to find the woman and smuggle her out of tehran - but they turn it down as an impossible risk... Which is how three former soldiers hired from a london agency and zach bennett, a university drop-out recruited for his persian language skills, find themselves about to cross the world's most dangerous frontier on a mission that will mean certain death if they are caught. And the corporal's wife is not the kind of person they expected to find. In fact, the fiery, independent, beautiful fa

Winnie Monks has never forgotten - or forgiven - the death of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army Major turned gangster. Now, years later, she hears the Major is travelling to a villa on the Costa del Sol and she asks permission to send in a surveillance unit. They find an empty property near the Major's. The Villa Paraiso. It's perfect to spy from - and as a base for Winnie's darker, less official, plans. But it turns out that the property isn't deserted. The owners have invited a young British couple to 'house sit' while they are away. For Jonno and Posie, just embarking on a relationship, this is supposed to be a carefree break in the sun. But when the Secret Service team arrives in paradise, everything changes.

Seymour's latest topical thriller proves that a good writer can find believable material in what most of us look on as CNN horror footage. Seymour has written fine thrillers set in such troubled terrains as Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Afghanistan. This time the killing ground is Croatia, where the body of a young Englishwoman is found in a mass grave. Her mother hires David Penn, an ex-serviceman and failed intelligence agent, to find out why she died.

Albert William Packer is the supreme baron of London crime. He rules his manor with a cruel, ruthless fist. To those around him, on whatever side of the law, he is the Untouchable. When another criminal case against him collapses, Packer turns his attention to expanding his heroin empire abroad. Where better to cut out the middle man than at the historic smuggling crossroads of Europe, the Balkans? New men and women are drafted into the Customs & Excise unit dedicated to convicting Packer. Only one from the old team survives: the most junior, Joey Cann retained solely for his obsessional knowledge of the man who calls himself 'Mister'. When Packer leaves for Sarajevo, it is inevitable that Cann be sent after him for 'intrusive surveillance'. The brief: to bring back the evidence that will nail Packer to the wall, whatever it takes. In London, it would have been no contest. But here on the war-torn streets of a city where justice is enforced by gangster warlords, Packer is far from home and from what he knows. Here, who will be the Untouchable, who will walk away?

Danny 'Badger' Baxter has a talent for surveillance. But now Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Republicans in muddy Ulster fields, or Islamic extremists on rainswept Yorkshire moors. MI6 have a plan to assassinate the Engineer - a brilliant maker of Improvised Explosive Devices, the roadside bombs which account for 80% of British casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. The spooks know he is planning to leave his home in Iran. They just need to find out when and where he is travelling. So Badger finds himself on the wrong side of the Iranian border...

In Rome one morning a British businessman is kidnapped for ransom, and Italy's most wanted woman terrorist is captured. When one of Franca Tantardini's young associates gains control of Geoffrey Harrison the price of his life becomes Tantardini's release, and principle rather than money becomes the issue. The police must deal with an emotionally unstable teenager, and death for Harrison is only a dawn away.

Charley Parsons is invited to resume her job as a nanny to the children of a Sicilian family. But this time the job is different - she is the central figure in a plot by the US Drug Enforcement Agency to trap Mario Ruggiero, head of the Sicilian Mafia. Charley is about to enter the killing ground.

Officially the Cold War is over. Between former enemies, the hand of friendship is exchanged in public. In private, though, the intelligence war goes on.An English trawler strays into Russian waters. When it returns, the captain has a package to deliver

Jericho's War is a relentlessly powerful novel of our times from 'the best thriller writer in the world' (Daily Telegraph)

Just prior to the invasion of Kuwait, Bill Erlich, a young FBI operative, is hard on the heels of a terrorist. As he blunders in to the lines by which the Iraqi puppet-masters control their undercover agents in England, Bill realises he has gone beyond the point of recall. He is engaged in Condition Black - lethal assault in progress.

An ex-SAS man and loner is recruited by a rag tag band of men to lead them to freedom from a brutal military dictatorship in Guatemala.

Hidden in the vastness of the world's greatest desert- the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia- a tiny caravan of fugitives and camels moves slowly towards its goal. Deep in the sands are the men they seek, the leaders of Al Qaeda, hunted, pursued and regrouping to strike again. One man in the caravan stands out. His strength and self- imposed discipline mark him. What drives him on is his obsessive quest to rejoin his family- the leadership of Al Qaeda- for whom he will kill without mercy or conscience. Searching for him in the limitless sands are American and British experts in counter- terrorism with a full range of sophisticated electronics. But he is no easy prey. If they fail to find and kill him the Outsider will disappear again, before re- emerging in a teeming Western city with a suitcase that will create havoc and death when it is detonateda

On a winter's night at the height of the Cold War, in a small town on the Baltic coast off East Germany, a young man is dragged from the sea and killed by the regime's secret police. The witnesses are terrorized into silence. A decade later the man's lover sets out to attain justice.

In 1992, after being fired from a top secret nuclear facility, a top KGB man buried a nuclear suitcase. Sixteen years later he has found a buyer for it. An exchange point in Eastern Europe is agreed upon. Travelling with the buyer is an undercover policeman, working for MI6

In The Military Family There Is No Worse Crime Than Cowardice. Malachy Kitchen, Intelligence Officer, Posted To Iraq, Appears Guilty Of It While On Patrol With An Infantry Platoon Ambushed By Insurgents. When Word Spreads That He Was Yellow Under Hostile Fire, His Life Starts To Disintegrate.Kicked Out Of The Army, He Becomes An Isolated Recluse In A Drugs Infested London Estate. But The Mugging Of His Neighbour, An Elderly Widow, By Addicts Lights The Flame That Draws Him To Regain His Lost Pride, To Take The Fight To The Narcotics Network He Sees Around Him.But It Is Not So Simple - Because The Drugs Routes Have Been Colonised By Other Factions Who Want To Deliver Equally Dangerous Packages Around The World. And If Malachy Is To Complete His Quest, He Must First Enter One Of The Darker Alleyways Of Life...

Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croatian villagers discover the identity of the Englishman who they believe betrayed them by reneging on a deal to supply arms. With revenge in sight at last, they hire a professional killer from London to track him down... but is the story as simple as they think?

A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. He believes it will end with his death in faraway England. For honour, for glory, for victory. If his mission succeeds, he will go to his god a martyr - and many innocents will die with him.

Die junge englische Lehrerin Charlotte wird als "Maulwurf" vom amerikanischen Geheimdienst in die sizilianische Mafiafamilie Ruggerio eingeschleust. Von ihr erhoffen sich die Rauschgiftfahnder den entscheidenden Tip, um Mario Ruggerio hinter Schloß und Riegel zu bringen. Doch so einfach tappt der Pate nicht in die Falle...

In opdracht van de Amerikaanse narcoticabrigade wordt een lerares kinderjuffrouw bij een Siciliaanse maffiafamilie om de verblijfplaats van de pater familias te achterhalen.

›Vagabond‹ ist der Deckname eines britischen Geheimagenten, der in Nordirland brutale Operationen gegen die IRA durchgeführt hat. Ausgebrannt zieht er sich für lange Jahre in die Normandie zurück und verdient seinen Lebensunterhalt als Touristenführer an den Invasionsstränden. Aber seine ehemaligen Vorgesetzten wollen ihn nicht ganz vom Haken lassen und zwingen ihn in eine MI-5-Aktion zurück: Er soll den Aufpasser für einen vom Geheimdienst erpressten Waffenhändler spielen, damit Waffenlieferungen aus Russland an die letzten, vom Friedensschluss frustrierten IRASplittergruppen unterbunden werden. Das erzählt man Vagabond zumindest, der gute Miene zum fiesen Spiel machen muss. Zudem droht seine Vergangenheit ihn einzuholen. Aber nicht nur sein Schicksal steht auf der Kippe in einer Welt, in der das Gestern keine Ruhe gibt und die Gegenwart extrem gefährlich ist. Realpolitik nimmt wenig Rücksicht auf Menschen, das ist klar wie Salzsäure.

Um den Paten der sizilianischen Mafia zu überführen, schleust der US-Geheimdienst eine junge Engländerin als Kindermädchen in den Haushalt seines Sohnes ein. Trotz ständiger tödlicher Bedrohung ist sie entschlossen, ihren Auftrag zu erfüllen

Fliegenpilz - bk1223; Bastei Lübbe; Gerald Seymour; pocket_book; 1980

Im Auftrag der IRA erschießt Billy Downs einen englischen Minister. Auf offener Straße und vor den Augen der Familie. Der Premier beauftragt Harry Brown, einen ausgekochten Profi, mit der Untersuchung des feigen, politisch hochbrisanten Mordes. Harry brown soll in Irland die Spur des Killers aufnehmen. Wer bringt wen zuerst zur Strecke?

Een Brit van Russische afkomst, veroordeeld tot vijftien jaar dwangarbeid in de Sovjet-Unie, rebelleert in gevangenschap met succes tegen de kampleiding.

Een jonge geheim agent werkt met een ervaren agente in Noord-Ierland samen om nauwe contacten te onderhouden met verklikkers uit IRA-gelederen.

Dankzij een gestolen identiteit komt een mysterieuze terrorist vrij uit het interneringskamp Guantanamo en wordt achtervolgd door de barre woestijn van Saudi Arabië.

Nový akční román autora bestsellerů jako Zóna smrti, Čas čekání a Hranice v písku. Odehrává se uprostřed války zuřící mezi kurdskými gerilami a vojenskou mocí Saddáma Husajna. Do vzdálených pustin severního Iráku se kvůli starému rodinnému přátelství dostává Gus Peake, odstřelovač lidí na velkou vzdálenost. Není však jediným profesionálem v této oblasti - také Bagdád vysílá svého Karima Azize. A duel, z něhož může vyjít živý jen jeden, se pro oba muže stává posedlostí...