The plot is well engineered, the insider detail precise, the tension ratcheted up turn by turn * Financial Times * 'A novel displaying all the author's many strengths, from his John le Carre-like ability to portray the intelligence world from top to bottom, to its line up of memorable supporting characters' * The Sunday Times * Highly enjoyable * Guardian * The always classy Seymour expertly stacks up the elements of his story to create another intricate, absorbing thriller * The Observer * Depicts the desperate world of an agent adrift behind enemy lines as few others can * The Times * Biografía del autor Gerald Seymour exploded onto the literary scene in 1975 with the massive bestseller HARRY'S GAME. The first major thriller to tackle the modern troubles in Northern Ireland, it was described by Frederick Forsyth as 'like nothing else I have ever read' and it changed the landscape of the British thriller forever. Gerald Seymour was a reporter at ITN for fifteen years. He covered events in Vietnam, Borneo, Aden, the Munich Olympics, Israel and Northern Ireland. He has been a full-time writer since 1978.