2003 News & Site Updates14 October 2003That was quick. I found this cover image for The Unknown Soldier at www.heffers.co.uk. You can click it for a larger image. There seems to be a Middle East theme so I'm guessing it'll be a post-9/11 thriller set in Afganistan (or Iraq) involving special forces! We'll see if I'm right in a few months... 
4 October 2003I just had a look on Amazon UK and guess what, there's a new Gerald Seymour book listed for next March! It's called The Unknown Soldier and it appears to be a nice epic at 469 pages long. Price is given as £12.99 and official publication date is 1 March 2004. Hopefully this date won't slip to the summer. Wow! Traitor's Kiss has had it's paperback edition listed for a while now. It's out on 2 February 2004 and has the same cover as the hardback version. As soon as I find out anything about The Unknown Soldier I will of course post it here. 16 March 2003I finished Traitor's Kiss yesterday and have added my comments about it. Now, is it another 18 month wait for the next book? 3 March 2003I bought the hardback version of Traitor's Kiss this afternoon in W.H. Smiths. The nice thing was they had (unadvertised as far as I could see) three pounds off so I got it for £9.99. I'll take my time reading it and then post my thoughts when I finish it. 1 March 2003My local bookshop has a copy of Traitor's Kiss in stock. I would have bought it but it's a trade paperback. The "proper" hardback only costs two pounds more so I'll wait until I see it. Anyway, just letting you know the book is OUT! 24 February 2003Well, just another week to the new Gerald Seymour novel! I've found a more detailed blurb on Amazon UK... 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 to British intelligence. For the next four years a high-ranking Russian naval officer, Viktor Archenko, passes valuable information to MI6. Suddenly he stops using the dead drop. His contacts in London know nothing about him - but they know he's under suspicion. The time has come to get him out. But a new breed plays the spy game now, men like Gabriel Locke. They have no interest in irrelevant Cold War sparring, or the risk of a spy scandal. There are deals to be done, alliances to be made. They would rather leave Archenko to fend for himself. He is, after all, a throwback and an embarrassing one at that. Only one veteran agent realizes that there is much more at stake than a man's life. Only he dares ask the question: if the war is over, who will fight the peace? I'll post an update as soon as I see the book in the shops. |