23 December 2010
I posted this news on my blog (bookswhatilike) a few days ago.
For a while Amazon have had a listing for an untitled Gerald Seymour novel due out next summer. Tonight I noticed that they have added a description...
C.R.O.P.: Covert Rural Observation Posts are places where men like Danny ‘Badger’ Baxter hide for endless, motionless hours, secretly recording criminal or terrorist activity.
But now Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Republicans in muddy Ulster fields or Islamic extremists on rainswept Yorkshire moors.
I.E.D.: Improvised Explosive Devices are the roadside bombs which account for 80% of British casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
MI6 have a plan to assassinate the leading maker of these weapons when he leaves his house in Iran to visit Europe. But first, they need to know when he is leaving, and where he is going.So it is that Badger finds himself on the wrong side of the Iranian border, lumbered with a partner he loathes, lying under a merciless sun in a mosquito-infested marsh, observing the house. And knowing that if they are caught, Her Majesty’s Government will deny all knowledge of them.
Welcome to A Deniable Death.
I am assuming A Deniable Death is the title. The publication date is currently 7 July 2011.
25 July 2010
I've added a page for The Dealer and the Dead with my review comments.
8 July 2010
Only ten months since the last novel was out and The Dealer and the Dead is out in hardback in the UK today. Here's a quick roundup of prices that I have seen tonight:
- Tescos £8.49 (and signed, at least in my nearest store)
- ASDA £9.50
- Sainsburys £9.99
- Amazon.co.uk £8.49
I won't know what Waterstones are charging until Saturday. I've gone for the signed Tesco copy although the page edges were not as perfect as I would have liked. The review will follow in due course.
10 June 2010
Just a quick reminder that The Collaborator is out in paperback in the UK today. The Dealer and the Dead should follow in hardback next month.
15 May 2010
Thanks to Ross for alerting me that www.amazon.co.uk have put up the cover for Gerald Seymour's new novel, The Dealer and the Dead.
The cover art matches the design of the last year's novel The Collaborator. The publication date is still set for 8 July 2010.
5 March 2010
Just spotted this on Amazon UK. Gerald Seymour's next novel, The Dealer and the Dead, has had its publication date changed to 8 July 2010.
This is only ten months since the previous book, The Collaborator, came out in hardcover so I imagine it might be a mistake.
Still, I am quite happy to be proved wrong!
5 February 2010
Amazon UK now have a short blurb for Gerald Seymout's next novel, The Dealer and the Dead...
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 welching 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 brilliant, bruising thriller, told in a unique way, about what happens when the hand of the past suddenly reaches out to the present - and is holding a gun.
Source: www.amazon.co.uk
23 January 2010
It's a long way off but Amazon UK are listing a new Gerald Seymour novel to be published toward the end of the year.
It's presently titled The Dealer and the Dead and will be published by Hodder & Stoughton on 14 Oct 2010.
No cover or plot details yet and I wouldn't be surprised if the title changes before then.
In the meantime you can find the hardback listing at www.amazon.co.uk.