Blurb........... A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of a national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in Belfast, and they must resort to more unorthodox methods to unearth him. Ill prepared and poorly briefed, undercover agent Harry Brown is sent into the heart of enemy territory to infiltrate the terrorists..
But when it is a race against the clock, mistakes
are made and corners cut. For Harry Brown, alone in a city of strangers, where
an intruder is the subject of immediate gossip and rumour, one false move is
enough to leave him fatally isolated....
I have recently expanded my scope of fiction
reading to encompass the “thriller” and as Gerald Seymour has on occasion been
touted as the best thriller writer working today in the UK, why not give him a
go?
Harry’s Game was his debut novel, first published
in the mid-70’s and probably never out of print since.
Whilst the politics in Northern Ireland have moved
on in the last thirty years, the novel stands the test of time. Seymour offers
the reader a perspective from both the Nationalist viewpoint and those involved
on the British side, both on the ground locally and those, slightly more remote
in government in London.
I enjoyed this first venture into Seymour country.
He manages to convincingly drive the story forward, conveying a sense of
realism and fear for Harry as the other side close in to try to shut him down.
Just as well really because I recently bought a 20 strong
Seymour book bundle second hand on E-Bay!
4 out of 5.
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