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A master of his craft. --The Sunday Telegraph
A brilliant storyteller. --The Sunday Express --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
A brilliant storyteller. --The Sunday Express --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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The new stunning, contemporary thriller from a master of the genre.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is not Seymour`s best book but I feel that it is good enough to award it five stars. Most of this author`s books follow a similar pattern. There are disparate situations and areas and every ten pages or so we move to a different scene until a climax is reached. You either love this approach or you will dislike it and clearly, some of the reviewers were in the latter category. All of the themes of his books are frightenly topical and this is no exception. An entertaining and thought-provoking novel.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Gerald Seymour's rich vein of form continues with his latest novel.Set in the present day it is a thriller about the supply and purchase of a former soviet dirty bomb and British Intellegence efforts to prevent a disaster from happening. This novel does begin slowly, partly because Seymour has assembled a vast cast of characters in this book and it takes the first 100 hundred pages or so for the strands to pull together.Every so often Seymour writes a novel that I just can't get into ('Traitors Kiss' being the last) and I feared that this might be such a book.
Seymour uses a writing style that it weighty narative and little dialogue, the characters are as ever deeply layered and complex.The plotting is tight and has a stronger grip on the reader as the pace and tension increases and all within his standard 20 chapters.
His lead Character Carrick is simular to other Seymour characters so far as that he is a troubled loner sent into a dangerous situation undercover, a ploy that Seymour used in his first novel 'Harry's Game ' and continued with books such as 'The Jouneyman Tailor' 'Killing Ground' and 'The Untouchable'.
This is Seymour's 25th novel in 33 years. Few writers, if any have kept up such a high standard of work for so long. He is in my opinion the best spy thriller writer at this time.
Seymour uses a writing style that it weighty narative and little dialogue, the characters are as ever deeply layered and complex.The plotting is tight and has a stronger grip on the reader as the pace and tension increases and all within his standard 20 chapters.
His lead Character Carrick is simular to other Seymour characters so far as that he is a troubled loner sent into a dangerous situation undercover, a ploy that Seymour used in his first novel 'Harry's Game ' and continued with books such as 'The Jouneyman Tailor' 'Killing Ground' and 'The Untouchable'.
This is Seymour's 25th novel in 33 years. Few writers, if any have kept up such a high standard of work for so long. He is in my opinion the best spy thriller writer at this time.
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SAFE READING - NO SPOILERS
I was reading this on holiday but was mugged in Naples and the book was stolen. (I would have loaned it to him if he had asked!)
I had to buy another when I returned as I was only half way through. Not Seymour at his best but still a very enjoyable, fast-paced and (as usual) well-researched book.
Recommended
I was reading this on holiday but was mugged in Naples and the book was stolen. (I would have loaned it to him if he had asked!)
I had to buy another when I returned as I was only half way through. Not Seymour at his best but still a very enjoyable, fast-paced and (as usual) well-researched book.
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Timebomb By Gerald Seymour
well werth a read i have all his other books i have just got his new one waiting for to arive its just a pitty his other books arnt on kindle as i would read them all again would... Read more
Published 9 months ago by walker
Unfortunate
Unfortunate describes this book. A pretty poor book from a great author. Seymour has written some fantastic books and really, it is a shame that this one gives such a poor... Read more
Published 18 months ago by G. Heywood
Making money out of the dead
It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to have the Shoah as the backdrop to your novel. It takes even more chutzpah to fail to double-and triple-check every last Jewish reference... Read more
Published on 20 May 2010 by NotALamedVovnik
Good build, but average finish
A story tracking several characters as they journey to Sobibor in Poland to trade a nuclear weapon. A Jewish money launderer travels from London accompanied by `Johnny' an... Read more
Published on 13 April 2010 by Clive
Damp squib
Haven't read a Seymour novel for some time and Timebomb reminded me why. What a load of pants. Predictable plot and a story that could have been finished in 200 pages let alone... Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2009 by Santiago Steve
Return to Sobibor
"He is obstinate, aloof, dismissive, cruel, and he is the most effective intelligence officer in that wretched building ... Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2009 by Joseph Haschka
Terrible, incredibly hard to follow
I managed to get through 50 pages of this book, I gave up because it is just too difficult to read and follow the plot.
Published on 10 May 2009 by Richard Kong
Worst book I have ever read
I totally agree with Purrdey's description. I found the narrative confusing and not very well written. Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2009 by Mr. Frank Sanders
Slow drizzle
This is the first Gerald Seymour novel that I have read and it will probably be the last. It was very hard to read with the main plot interspersed with so many sub plots that I... Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2009 by Michael R. Farley
Rubbish is probably a good description
I mostly agree with the reviews that have 'rubbish' in their title. As for the review that says 'grips like a vice', then 'grips like an infectious disease' is more like it, in... Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2008 by purrdey
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