Harry's Game: The 40th Anniversary Edition
By (Author) Gerald Seymour
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
22nd October 2015
22nd October 2015
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Espionage and spy thriller
823.914
Paperback
320
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
258g
A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!
A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of 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...Absorbing from beginning to end... the sort of book that makes you lose track of time - New York Times
Evokes the atmosphere and smell of the back streets of Belfast as nothing else I have ever read - Frederick Forsyth, Sunday ExpressA though thriller, vibrant with suspense - Evening StandardDevastatingly good... you can smell the mean streets where the terrorists hide - SpectatorFirst rate... Edge-of-the-seat reading - Washington PostGerald 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.