Synopses & Reviews
Hard on the heels of last year's brilliant thriller, The Collaborator, comes this excellent multilayered thriller. In 1992, after being fired from a top-secret nuclear facility, a top KGB man buried a nuclear suitcase. Sixteen years later he has found a buyer for it. Traveling with the buyer is an undercover policeman, working for MI6. But as their shadowy journey begins, it becomes clear to a top psychiatrist that their man may be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and the whole operation is very likely to be thrown into jeopardy. Displaying a fast- paced narrative and an in-depth knowledge of international politics, Timebomb is thrilling Seymour to keep a reader up late into the night.
Review
"Seymour, who is classed with espionage luminaries like Ambler and le Carre, has crafted a convoluted plot and a host of complex and exquisitely tormented characters, but it's his focus on human frailty that makes
Timebomb a winner."
--Booklist Review
"Intricately crafted and clocklike in its controlled release of psychological and geopolitical tension."
--Kirkus ReviewsReview
"Seymour shifts focus among his large cast with a nimbleness that heightens suspense, sustains interest and creates a rooter's sympathy for (or at least an understanding of) even the most violent characters . . . To the author's aesthetic credit, Timebomb ticks to a satisfying if ambiguous conclusion." --Wall Street Journal
Review
"Three British masters of suspense, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, and John le Carre, have been joined by a fourth--Gerald Seymour." --
New York Times "A richly imagined novel that bristles with authenticity . . . a realistic portrait of a side of Naples that tourists rarely see." --Washington Post
About the Author
GERALD SEYMOUR spent fifteen years as an international television news reporter, covering Vietnam and the Middle East and specializing in terrorism. He is the author of the acclaimed thriller Harry's Game and many other books, six of which have been filmed.