The rules are simple. Break up your shape. Hide your smell. Never show your silhouette. Check the surfaces of your kit. Space the movements of your team. Use the shadows.
Danny Badger Baxter has a talent for surveillance. He's always followed the rules. Until now, they've kept him alive.
But now, Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Northern Irish Republicans in muddy Ulster fields, or Islamic extremists on rain swept Yorkshire moors. MI6 has a plan to assassinate the Engineer - a brilliant maker of improvised explosive devices, the roadside bombs that account for 80 percent of Allied casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. The spooks know he's planning to leave his home in Iran. They just need to find out when and where he's traveling.
So Badger finds himself on the wrong side of the Iranian border, burdened with a partner he loathes, lying under a merciless sun in a mosquito-infested marsh, observing the house. If things go wrong, as far as Her Majesty's government is concerned, his part in the plot is completely deniable.
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"Continued with his usual style of "the loner" only on this occasions there are 4 "loners" tackling a particular type of problem as perceived by the various security services. Not his best but still very enjoyable." — Roger (4 out of 5 stars)
"Continued with his usual style of "the loner" only on this occasions there are 4 "loners" tackling a particular type of problem as perceived by the various security services. Not his best but still very enjoyable."
" solid realistic spy fiction. dark and morallh ambiguous like the best of them "
" British spies on a covert operation in Iran with American and Israeli connections. Not technical - more about the people involved - fast pace. "
" More to come. Occasionally jingoistic but undeniably impressive. "
" Kind of interesting novel about observers in enemy territory trying to discover where a bomb-maker will be so that he can be assassinated. "
" Best Spy novel I've read in a long time. "
" Meticulously researched, I found this book to be a little too long winded. Seymour has written many excellent, thoughtful books but I didn't think this was one of his best. Good characterisation though "
" Quite a boring read in the end with a credibility factor of about 1/10 "
Gerald Seymour spent fifteen years as an international television news reporter, covering the Vietnam War, Ireland, the Munich Olympics massacre, Germany’s Red Army, Italy’s Red Brigades, and Palestinian groups. He is the author of seventeen novels, including the bestseller Harry’s Game. He lives in Bath, England.
Ralph Cosham (1936–2014), a.k.a. Geoffrey Howard, was a British journalist who changed careers to become a narrator and screen and stage actor. He performed in more than one hundred professional theatrical roles. His audiobook narrations were named “Audio Best of the Year” by Publishers Weekly, and he won seven AudioFile Earphones Awards, and in 2013 he won the coveted Audie Award for Best Mystery Narration for his reading of Louise Penny’s The Beautiful Mystery.
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