21 December 2007
According to Amazon UK the next novel has the title Time Bomb. It's still listed as a June 2008 release.
30 October 2007
Did some more work on the "new look".
Wrote new content for the page on The Journeyman Tailor after reading it again.
Added a Message Board to the page.
28 September 2007
Starting to play around with a new look...
Amazon have changed the reported release date of "Untitled Gerald Seymour" to 2 June 2008, which does seem a lot more likely.
18 September 2007
Just had a nice surprise over at Amazon UK. They are listing an "Untitled Gerald Seymour" due to be published by Bantam Press on 21 April 2008. Here's the synopsis...
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. But as their shadowy journey across Europe begins, it becomes clear to a top psychiatrist at MI6, that their man may be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and the whole operation is very likely to be thrown into jeopardy ...
Source: www.amazon.co.uk
Lot's of good offers for The Walking Dead can be found in paperback. It's seent it half-price in both ASDA and Waterstones.
6 September 2007
Just three months after the hardback was out I see that The Walking Dead has made it to paperback in the UK! I spotted it for £4.00 in my local Tesco. Must be some sort of record!
24 June 2007
I finished The Walking Dead a couple of days ago and I've put my thoughs about it here
19 June 2007
I found a couple of online reviews of The Walking Dead:
In London, a jaded police marksman inherits his great-uncle's Spanish Civil War journal and is plunged into self-doubt by its simple courage and conviction. In Saudi Arabia, a young wannabe suicide bomber is picked for a mission in England because he can walk like a European. Clearly the two are destined for a showdown.
The question is whether either will still be able to do his duty in the climate of self-serving cynicism rampant on both sides in Gerald Seymour's world-weary view of the war on terror. The brutal commissars of the great-uncle's diary are mirrored today by both callous al-Qa'eda chiefs and torture-happy MI5 and CIA spooks to whom honour and principle are delusions for footsoldiers and cannon fodder. As a sprawling novel about the decline of moral courage in society, this is almost Dickensian in ambition. As a thriller, its long-delayed climax is almost perfunctory.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
There are authors you can rely on to give you a rollercoaster ride through the tough world we live in and Gerald Seymour, who honed his research and observational skills as a TV news reporter, is one of the best. When he creates an Islamist terrorist cell holed up in a rented house on a farm in middle England, you can be sure they come across as very real people. And as for the devout young Saudi who dreams of avenging his two brothers by becoming one of the "walking dead", carrying a waistcoat bomb to the heart of the enemy, he is a chilling zealot indeed. The large cast ranges from the the Scorpion who recruits the bombers and the Engineer who makes the bombs to David Banks the troubled armed protection officer, and a whole lot of extras. Will there be a monstrous atrocity on the streets of England? You have to take a ride on the rollercoaster to find out.
Source: books.guardian.co.uk
I'm now three-quarters the way through the book. When I finish it I'll add my thoughts but so far it's up the the usual high standard we have come to expect.
9 June 2007
Today's Times newspaper has an article about Gerald Seymour and his new novel. You can read it online at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
It includes the following hint about his next novel:
"For his next book he has been tramping around the site of Sobibor, in Poland, the scene of the only mass revolt in a Nazi concentration camp. “I think the Second World War is still hugely important,” he says, going on to make a psychological link between the hard-line attitudes of Israel to that moment when Jews decided that they would no longer accept being victims. It is what he means about the importance of history to understanding anything in the modern world."
7 June 2007
Keep your eyes open for offers on The Walking Dead. Tescos is selling it for 9 pounds (give or take) and Waterstones will be selling it half-price until 17 June!
30 May 2007
I've just seen a copy of The Walking Dead in my local branch of Easons, in trade paperback format. I'll just have to wait to read it because I'm getting a hardback copy from Amazon!
20 April 2007
Just a quick update about the Daily Mail DVDs. Last Monday (16 April) the DVD was A Line in the Sand. If I understand things correctly tomorrow's (21 April) DVD should be The Glory Boys and on Thursday of next week (26 April) the DVD should be Red Fox.
14 April 2007
Amazon UK has FINALLY put up a cover image for the next book, The Walking Dead!
The Daily Mail newspaper is giving away action thriller DVDs over the next two weeks. Three of them will be Red Fox, The Glory Boys and A Line in the Sand. I don't know what days each of those are being given away so keep checking every day. From Monday the DVDs can be picked up at WH Smiths or Easons, or tokens can be collected for mail order.
I'm very interested in getting my hands on Red Fox because I haven't seen it since 1991. I remember it being quite good and the cast includes John Hurt, Brian Cox and Jane Birkin.