Gerald Seymour je uznávaný britský románopisec, ktorého dielo čerpá hlboko zo svojich rozsiahlych skúseností zahraničného korešpondenta. Jeho diela sa vyznačujú zložitým dejom a bystrým pohľadom na geopolitické napätia a tajné operácie, ktoré formujú moderný svet. Seymour majstrovsky spája napätie s realistickým základom, často skúmajúc komplexné motivácie jednotlivcov uvrhnutých do krížovej paľby globálneho konfliktu. Jeho prechod od žurnalistiky k plnohodnotnému písaniu fikcie vtlačil jeho príbehom autentickú naliehavosť a nekompromisný pohľad na dôsledky moci.
"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.
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
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...
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?
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.
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.
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.
Jonas Merrick returns in another uncannily topical novel from one of the greatest thriller writers of our time.
A group of young Soviet Jews let their idealism get the better of them and they kill a policeman. One of their number is quickly captured and the others panic. They decide to hijack an airliner on an internal flight in order to escape to the West. Surely they will be welcomed ... They are not. No country in Western Europe wants to deal with this political hot-potato and the plane is forced to divert from country to country as it runs out of fuel. Finally it lands in southern England and a tense stand-off begins.
A son's race against time to rescue his father from death row in South Africa.