Gerald Seymour - the art of danger (2004 updates)

There's a page about A Line in the Sand in the new Radio Times magazine. You can see it here. Warning: 250 Kb!

26 May 2004

Just tonight I saw a trailer on ITV for the long overdue A Line in the Sand featuring Ross Kemp. "Coming Soon" it said. I understand it will be June 6 and 7 on ITV. According to Yahoo it was delayed because of September 11: uk.tv.yahoo.com

14 March 2004

I finished reading The Unknown Soldier today. I've written a review and you can find it here.

1 March 2004

Just a quick word to say that I picked up a copy of The Unknown Soldier this evening in Waterstones. A review will be posted eventually!

4 February 2004

"Just wanted to let you know that I bought Traitor's Kiss at Gatwick on Sunday night. Was rather disappointed to discover that pages 33-64 have been replaced by a much-needed second set of pages 0-32...."

So if you're buying this paperback you should have a good flick through it first!

30 January 2004

The official release date for the paperback of Traitor's Kiss is Monday 2 February 2004 but I thought it worth mentioning that I saw some copies in my local bookshop today! There was no blurb for The Unknown Soldier inside.

22 January 2004

What a difference a day makes! I just found this blurb for The Unknown Soldier on Amazon...

Hidden in the empty vastness of the world’s greatest desert – the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia – a tiny caravan of fugitives and camels moves painfully slowly towards its goal.

In extreme heat and exposed to cruelly vicious storms, it is a place where only the strongest and most determined men will survive. Deep in the sands, lost from sight, are the leadership of Al Qaeda, hunted, pursued and regrouping to strike again.

Among the bedouin and Arabs of the caravan one man stands out. His strength, self-imposed discipline and leadership mark him. He is an Outsider. To look into his face and memorise it is to court death. His identify is masked, his past is blanked from his memory. To him, the leadership is his only family, and his loyalty to the family is total.

Searching for him in the limitless sands and dunes are American and British experts in counter-terrorism with a full range of sophisticated electronics at hand. Above him, quartering the desert, is the unmanned Predator aircraft that is invisible in the cloudless skies and that carries the Hellfire missiles.

But he is no easy prey. If they fail to find and kill him, if he reaches his family and receives his orders, the Outsider will disappear again, before re-emerging in a teeming western city with a suitcase that will create havoc, murder when it is detonated…

Sounds pretty damn good to me. And the release date is still listed as 1 March 2004.

21 January 2004

Still no blurb for the new novel on Amazon and there's less than six weeks to the publication date. This makes me doubt the date given. I did a search and found this very cryptic information on his agent's site (www.pfd.co.uk)...

THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER TRANSWORLD (7 Jun 04)

He has walked through fire, the ordeal has hardened his hatred, but the newer enemy has no face and no name. As the clock ticks who will recognise him?

I am none the wiser... Note the different release date of June. This may or may not be correct...

News & Site Updates for 2004

23 July 2004