Condition Black
By (Author) Gerald Seymour
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
10th September 2013
1st August 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
384
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 26mm
300g
When Bill Erlich, a young FBI agent, learns that one of his closest friends has been murdered in Athens, he vows that he will find the killer, even if it means breaking the rules. The man he suspects is a British mercenary known as Colt, who has been working for the Iraqi government, and is as elusive as he is dangerous.
Erlich follows Colt to England, where he has been dispatched to recruit a disaffected scientist. Determined to bring Colt to justice at whatever cost, Erlich crosses an invisible line beyond which there is no return...Gripping, informative and well-paced - Independent
I would class this book with the first-rate achievements of Graham Greene, Charles McCarry and Le Carre - Chicago TribuneCombines the landscapes and rugged manhunts of Geoffrey Household with the dispassionate sniper's eye of Eric Ambler - The TimesGives the many-sided suspense story such a wealth of factual detail, it is in the same class as Frederick Forsyth's best - Daily MailGerald Seymour exploded onto the literary scene in 1978 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