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'A dense, intensely satisfying thriller from one of the modern masters of the craft, Seymour's latest novel will remind the world just how phenomenally accomplished a thriller writer he is.' (Daily Mail )
'A propulsive, neatly structured thriller' (Guardian )
'The veteran writer has rarely strayed from forging complex and innovative thrillers . . . In THE COLLABORATOR, his professionalism ensures a forceful, kinetic narrative.' (Independent )
'The pace leaves you breathless and there are chapters where you can't turn the pages quick enough. Once again, Seymour has proved that he is the master of the thriller genre.' (Edinburgh Evening News )
'With THE COLLABORATOR, the author is back on top form: topical, gripping and original.' (The Economist )
'A propulsive, neatly structured thriller' (Guardian )
'The veteran writer has rarely strayed from forging complex and innovative thrillers . . . In THE COLLABORATOR, his professionalism ensures a forceful, kinetic narrative.' (Independent )
'The pace leaves you breathless and there are chapters where you can't turn the pages quick enough. Once again, Seymour has proved that he is the master of the thriller genre.' (Edinburgh Evening News )
'In a class of his own'
(The Times on THE WAITING TIME )'The finest thriller writer in the world today'
(Daily Telegraph on THE UNTOUCHABLE )'Mario Puzo, eat your heart out'
(The Times on KILLING GROUND )'A superb feat of storytelling by a master of his craft'
(Sunday Telegraph on THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER )'A genuinely exciting epic'
(Daily Telegraph on THE UNTOUCHABLE )'A writer who knows exactly what pressure to exert and when . . . you will not stop for a cup of tea or even breathe much'
(Guardian on THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER )'With THE COLLABORATOR, the author is back on top form: topical, gripping and original.' (The Economist )
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Deadlier than the Mafia, the Camorra never forget, and never forgive.
She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend Eddie teaches at a language school. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to look after her gangster brother, wanted for multiple murders back home in Naples.
For the Borelli clan are major players in the Camorra, a crime network more close-knit and ruthless than the Sicilian Mafia.
Mario Castrolami is a senior Carabinieri investigator of the Camorra, his career dedicated to destroying the corruption and violence of the clans. When Immacolata calls from London to say she is prepared to collaborate with justice - to betray her own family - he knows she is setting in motion a terrifying and unpredictable series of events.
The Borellis will not lose their criminal empire without a vicious fight. They will use anything and anyone to prevent her from giving evidence against them. Even Eddie, and Eddie's life.
She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend Eddie teaches at a language school. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to look after her gangster brother, wanted for multiple murders back home in Naples.
For the Borelli clan are major players in the Camorra, a crime network more close-knit and ruthless than the Sicilian Mafia.
Mario Castrolami is a senior Carabinieri investigator of the Camorra, his career dedicated to destroying the corruption and violence of the clans. When Immacolata calls from London to say she is prepared to collaborate with justice - to betray her own family - he knows she is setting in motion a terrifying and unpredictable series of events.
The Borellis will not lose their criminal empire without a vicious fight. They will use anything and anyone to prevent her from giving evidence against them. Even Eddie, and Eddie's life.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Too long and too complicated,
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This review is from: The Collaborator (Paperback)
As a rule, I enjoy Gerald Seymour's novels. His research is impeccable, and the stories compelling. But this one is too long and too complicated. The basic story is very promising. The daughter of Italian gangsters collaborates with the police because her family have caused the death of her best friend, thus exposing herself to considerable danger, and meanwhile, her boyfriend is captured and held hostage. This is all exciting stuff. But Seymour spins the story out beyond what's necessary for the plot, and by the end, this reader, for one, had had enough. This is a shame, because it could have made for a riveting read. My other objection, as always with Seyomour, is his habit of using a personal pronoun instead of a name, leaving the reader to guess whom he's talking about until all is revealed a page of two later.I was looking forward to reading this novel, but in the end, it was a disappointment.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Collaborator,
By rsasdr (chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Collaborator (Hardcover)
Seymour is one of my favorite authors, but I was slow to read this book. His last couple books had disapointed, and this one sounded like a re-hash of his earlier book Killing Ground. But The Collaboroator turned out to be Seymour's best book in some years. The style is very much reminiscent of his earlier books from the 1970s and '80s and is more of a tightly plotted thriller than his more recent books like Timebomb or The Walking Dead, which were tedious, slow, strangely structured, and anti-climatic. The plotting and supsense here are tight. The characters, including Italian law enforcement officers, an American hostage negoitator, the Camorra members, and the young women who will give evidence against her criminal family, are the best of Seymour's more recent books and refreshing and much more convincing than the large number of generic MI6 people and Islamic terrorists who have populated the last few books. Only problem is that the book is way too long for such a fairly simple, small scale story with a small cast of characters. Cutitng the narrative down a bit would have made a much tighter, faster story, but The Collaborator is still Seymour's best book in years and hopefully his next book will follow this style. It's rare to find an intelligent, realistic, well-written, entertaining thriller these days, so thankfully Seymour, after a couple duds, is still doing it.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I could not put this down,
This review is from: The Collaborator (Hardcover)
I am really tired right now, because I have just finished this book after not being able to put it down. Thelast hundred pages really are tense. I read a lot of thrillers and would disagree that the end is predictable. OK, you know someone is likely not to make it out alive, but who. I agree with the previous reviewer, that that this gets going a lot faster than some of the author's other books. The author has covered this subject before i.e the Italian mafia, with 'Killing ground'. I found this more enjoyable. There are a number of interesting characters. The kidnapped young man, being of the author's typical characters : very ordinary but having a stubborn resilience. Like 'Killing ground' there is a charismatic hero, who is an expert in hostage rescue. There is the usual weary but determined good policeman. There is a very bad hit man to hiss at. I should mention the main character, who turns state witness against her own Camorra family and sets off a chain of events. I have to admit finding the story more gripping when it concerned her kidnapped boyfriend.
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