Gerald Seymour

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1975
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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About the Author

Gerald Seymour's first novel was Harry's Game. in 1975, and his screenplay for the television film version won the Pye Television Award. Eric Ambler called it "one of those rare pleasures, a considerable novel that is also a superb thriller". Each succeeding novel, The Glory Boys, Kingfisher, Red Fox, In Honour Bound, Field of Blood, A Song in the Morning, At Close Quarters and Home Run has touched the raw nerve of a contemporary issue.

Mr Seymour, once a reporter for Independent Television News, now lives with his family in the West Country.

Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • Harry's Game

    Harry had served his country well. Now, he was going home. To Belfast--and the center of a violent and bloody conflict. His assignment this time, a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in a terrorist underground. A shadowy world where hunter and hunted meet ...

  • The Glory Boys

  • The Harrison Affair

  • The Contract

  • Archangel

  • In Honor Bound

  • Field of Blood

    A former member of the Organization in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sian Pius McAnally flees his political and family commitments, escaping to the Republic until, retrieved by the Organization for a key mission, he is captured by the police...

  • A Song in the Morning

  • Eye for an Eye



  • The Running Target

    British espionage in Iran and the international heroin trade provide the background for this thriller about four men, each with a sense of mission and a private definition of honor, on a collision course...

  • Shadow On The Sun

  • Condition Black

    Determined to find the person who gunned down his friend, a CIA agent, on a street in Greece, FBI agent Bill Erlich discovers clues that lead him to a run-down English manor and the fugitive son of a World War II hero. Reprint....

  • The Journeyman Tailor

  • The Fighting Man

    Going into self-imposed exile for his part in Desert Storm, former British Special Forces officer Gord Brown is drawn into the cause of three Guatemalan Indians who are resisting a military dictatorship. Reprint....

  • The Heart of Danger

    When a secret mass grave in the Balkans reveals the body of Dorrie Mowat, intelligence officer-turned-P.I. Bill Penn is drawn into the barbaric domain of a psychotic Serbian warlord to uncover the truth, only to find his life and everything he once b...

  • Killing Ground

    Two ruthless men...one innocent woman...caught in a deadly embrace.

    Mafia kingpin Mario Ruggerio--as elusive as he is brutal--has built an empire on the blood of his enemies. U.S. Federal Agent Axel Moen has sworn to bring the Sicilian down, no m...

  • Dead Ground

    Celebrated for his "palm-sweating tension" (The New York Times) and "rare insight" (The Plain Dealer), Gerald Seymour defines spy fiction at its best. Now, in this chilling revenge mission and haunting love story, he floodlights the East German Stasi...

  • A Line in the Sand

    Frank Perry, a British agent who had helped disable Iran's chemical and biological weapons programs, has now become the target of an Iranian assassination plot, led by a deadly killer code-named the "Anvil." By the author of Dead Ground. Repr...

  • The Untouchable

    Albert Packer is the supreme baron of London crime, ruling his domain with a ruthless fist and thinking of himself as the Untouchable. As yet another criminal case against him collapses, Packer turns his attention to expanding his heroin empire abroa...



  • The Unknown Soldier

    Deep in the world's greatest desert, the leadership of Al Qaeda, hunted and pursued, is regrouping to strike again. In this group one man stands out. His loyalty to the cause is total. To look into his face and memorise it is to court death. Search...

  • Rat Run

    In the military family there is no worse crime than cowardice. Malachy Kitchen, Intelligence officer, posted to Iraq, appears guilty of it while on patrol with an infantry platoon ambushed by insurgents. When word spreads that he was ‘yellow’ und...

  • Traitor's Kiss

    For the past four years, a high-ranked Russian naval officer named Viktor Archenko has been passing valuable information to MI6. His contacts in London know nothing about him--but when the flow of information stops, they know for sure that he�'s unde...

  • Closure

    A stunning contemporary thriller from a master of the genre. A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. He believes it will end with his death in faraway England. For honour, for glory, for victory. If his mission succeeds,...

  • The Walking Dead

    A stunning contemporary thriller from a master of the genre. A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. He believes it will end with his death in faraway England. For honour, for glory, for victory. If his mission succeeds,...

  • Kingfisher

  • Time Bomb

    The new, stunning, contemporary thriller from a master of the genre.

    In 1992, after being fired from a top secret facility, a top KGB man buried a nuclear suitcase. Sixteen years later he has found a buyer for it.

    An exchange point in ...

  • Timebomb

    A rollicking spy novel from the international-bestselling author of Battle Sight Zero, “the best thriller writer in the world” (The Daily Telegraph).   In 1992, after being fired from a top-secret nuclear facility, a top KGB man buried a dir...

  • The Collaborator

    A friend’s death drives an Italian woman to collaborate against her criminal family in this “propulsive, neatly structured thriller” (Guardian (UK)).She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend Eddie teaches at a language ...

  • The Dealer and the Dead

    In a moonlit field near the Serbian border, Croatian villagers waited for an arms shipment that would never come. Eighteen years later, the survivors of the slaughter which followed finally discover the identity of the arms dealer who betrayed the...



  • Red Fox

    Beautiful seductive and extremely dangerous Franca Tantardini is one of Italy's most ruthless political extremists. When she is captured in a shoot-out her fanatical young lover Giancarlo Battestini vows to set her free and with quiet watchfulness wa...

  • A Deniable Death

    A page-turning thriller of life and death in the moral maze of the post-9/11 world from the international bestselling author. The rules are simple. Break up your shape. Hide your smell. Never show your silhouette. Check the surfaces of your ki...

  • The Corporal's Wife

    An Iranian soldier sits in an MI6 safe house. He may only be a corporal, but as chauffeur to a top general he knows many secrets, such as the location of nuclear sites. But the Corporal won't talk unless they bring his wife out of Iran, too. So th...

  • At Close Quarters

    Peter Holt a young diplomat witnesses the horrific murder of his fiance and the British Ambassador within days of a new posting to the Soviet Union. The report of the murder lands on the desk of a British Intelligence officer who suspects Palestinian...

  • The Outsiders

    MI5 officer Winnie Monks has never forgotten - or forgiven - the brutal murder of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army officer turned fixer and criminal known as the Major. Now, ten years later, she learns that the Major is...

  • Vagabond

    A legendary spy handler is called out of retirement for the most dangerous and high-stakes operation of his career. It was a dirty job in a dirty war. Danny Curnow, known in the army by his call sign, Vagabond, ran agents and informers. He played ...

  • No Mortal Thing

    Two young men - Jago and Marcantonio - both studying business and finance and a woman who knows where evil lives. Jago is a kid from a rough part of London who has worked hard to get a job in a bank and is now on a fast-track secondment to the Berlin...

  • Jericho's War

    Selected by The Sunday Times as one of the four top thrillers of the year, JERICHO'S WAR is the new paperback from 'the best thriller writer in the world' (Daily Telegraph) In a moment of nerve-shredding suspense that will affect many thousands of li...

  • A Damned Serious Business

    'The novel is an absorbing briefing on cyberwarfare as well as a masterclass in characterisation' SUNDAY TIMES Thriller of the Month There is a new cold war raging and its frontline warriors are Russian hackers - gang-members working freelance for...

  • Battle Sight Zero

    A searing novel of trust and betrayal in the fight against terrorism.

    The Kalashnikov AK47 is a weapon with a unique image, symbol of freedom fighters and terrorists across the globe. In a fanatic''s hands, inside a crowded shopping mall, it...



  • Beyond Recall

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    ''A novel displaying all the author''s many strengths, from his John le Carr�-like ability to portray the intelligence world from top to bottom, to its line up of memorable supporting characters'' The Sunday Times


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  • The Crocodile Hunter

  • The Foot Soldiers

  • In At The Kill

  • The Best Revenge

  • Holding the Zero

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Gus Peake should have stayed at home, but an old family debt draws him to the remote wastes of Northern Iraq and to a forgotten war between Kurdish guerillas and Saddam Hussein's military strength.He must quickly learn to deal out random death at lon...

  • Home Run

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Mattie Furniss is ordered to Iran by British Intelligence to fortify his remaining agents and stimulate a flow of information. Unknown to him, Mattie's mission is about to be blown wide open by political pressures, and he is soon left alone in a host...

  • The Waiting Time

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    On a winter's night at the height of the Cold War, in a small town on the Baltic coast of East Germany, a young man is dragged from the sea and killed by the regime's secret police. The witnesses are terrorized into silence. But a British woman is pr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gerald Seymour has published 47 books.

Gerald Seymour does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Best Revenge, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Gerald Seymour, Harry's Game, was published in January 1975.

No. Gerald Seymour does not write books in series.
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