Книга: Gerald Seymour «No Mortal Thing»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" Two young men - Jago and Marcantonio - both studying business and finance: 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 office. Marcantonio is one of the new generation in the `Ndrangheta crime families from Calabria, Southern Italy. He is in Germany to learn how to channel their illicit millions towards legitimate businesses all over Europe. When Jago witnesses Marcantonio commit a vicious assault and the police seem uninterested, the Englishman refuses to let the matter drop. But by pursuing the gangster to his grandfather`s mountain lair, Jago is stepping into the middle of a delicate surveillance operation, which sets alarm bells ringing in Rome, London and Berlin. It also leads him to Consolata, a young woman who sees in Jago the chance to turn her non-violent protest campaign against the crime families into something altogether more lethal... ISBN:9781473626904 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2016)
ISBN: 9781473626904 |
Gerald Seymour
Gerald Seymour (born
Life
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His father was
Bibliography
*"Harry's Game" (1975), ISBN 0-00-221866-6:A British cabinet minister is gunned down by an IRA assassin, leaving an undercover agent to track down the killer before he himself is killed. The book notably introduced the phrase, not familiar before the '80s, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."
*"The Glory Boys" (1976), ISBN 0-00-222399-6:An Arab terrorist, the only survivor of a three-man hit squad ambushed by Israeli Intelligence in France, plans to murder Israel's leading nuclear scientist on a visit to London. McCoy, an IRA mercenary, is to provide him with the weapons. Jimmy, who works for British Intelligence, must find them.
*"Kingfisher" (1977), ISBN 0-00-222353-8:A story of three Soviet dissidents, Ukrainian Jews, who hijack a plane to escape to the West. They land in England but it is not certain how they will be treated – as political refugees or murderous criminals?
*"Red Fox" (1979), ISBN 0-00-221444-X, published in the U.S. as "The Harrison Affair":When Italy's most ruthless terrorist is captured, her lover uses a British businessman, who has been kidnapped in Rome, as a bargaining tool to free her and unleashes forces which threaten to escape everyone's control.
*"The Contract" (1980), ISBN 0-00-221998-0:Set against a backdrop of the treacherous East/West German border, this tells of the journey to redemption of a disgraced British army officer who requires the defection of a top flight Soviet scientist.
*"Archangel" (1982), ISBN 0-00-222621-9:Running a small errand for the British Intelligence Service turns into a nightmare for a young man when he is arrested by the Soviet Secret Police and sentenced to 15 years in a desolate labour camp.
*"In Honour Bound" (1984), ISBN 0-00-222764-9:Barney Crispin, SAS captain, is sent urgently to the Afghanistan border on the direct order of the Foreign Secretary. His mission is to organize the destruction of one of the new Soviet helicopters and to bring its secret parts back to Britain.
*"Field of Blood" (1985), ISBN 0-00-222870-X:Two men, one ex-IRA, the other a reluctant British Lieutenant, become pawns in a deadly political game of cat-and-mouse.
*"A Song in the Morning" (1986), ISBN 0-00-223106-9:Jeez Curwen, a British undercover agent, is captured taking part in a terrorist attack in
*"At Close Quarters" (1987), ISBN 0-00-271013-7, published in the U.S. as "An Eye for an Eye":A diplomat and an Israeli master
*"Home Run" (1989), ISBN 0-00-271018-8, published in the U.S. as "The Running Man":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 hostile environment where his every move is tracked.
*"Condition Black" (1991), ISBN 0-00-271176-1:A thriller set against the background of
*"The Journeyman Tailor" (1992), ISBN 0-00-271233-4:Gary Brennard is young and keen, just the qualities his MI5 desk chief seeks for an undercover operation in Northern Ireland. There is a suspicion that an informer is among the villagers of County Tyrone.
*"The Fighting Man" (1993), ISBN 0-00-224305-9:Thrown out of the SAS, Gord Brown is working on a fish farm in Scotland when he is found by Central American Indians on a mission to recruit a "fighting man" for an uprising against the
*"The Heart of Danger" (1995), ISBN 0-00-225009-8:The international community had promised it would hunt down the war criminals of
*"Killing Ground" (1997), ISBN 0-593-04098-8:A young English schoolteacher, Charlotte Parsons, is invited to resume her job as nanny to the children of a well-to-do Sicilian family. But this time Charley is the central figure in a desperate plot by the US Drug Enforcement Agency to trap Mario Ruggerio, would-be head of the Sicilian
*"The Waiting Time" (1998), ISBN 0-593-04211-5, published in the U.S. as "Dead Ground":On a winter's night at the height of the
*"A Line in the Sand" (1999), ISBN 0-593-04459-2:In a village on the Suffolk coast, Frank Perry waits for his past to arrive. A decade ago, he spied for the government on the Iranian chemical and biological weapons installations. Now Iran has despatched its most lethal assassin to take revenge. Can Perry's protectors stop him?
*"Holding the Zero" (2000), ISBN 0-593-04425-8:A suspense novel set against the backdrop of the Gulf War, where two of the world's greatest snipers fight out a debt of honour in the hills of northern Iraq.
*"The Untouchable" (2001), ISBN 0-593-04650-1:Albert Packer is master of all he surveys. He rules the manor with an iron fist. For 20 years, he has had it all his own way – the police and intelligence services have targeted him but have yet to get close to any sort of effective prosecution.
*"Traitor's Kiss" (2003), ISBN 0-593-05091-6:Officially the Cold War is over. Between former enemies, the hand of friendship is exchanged in public. In private, though, the intelligence war goes on.
*"The Unknown Soldier" (2004), ISBN 0-593-05258-7:Hidden in the empty vastness of the world’s greatest desert a tiny caravan of fugitives and camels moves painfully slowly towards its goal. Above them, quartering the desert, is the unmanned Predator aircraft that is invisible in the cloudless skies and that carries Hellfire missiles.
*"Rat Run" (2005), ISBN 0-593-05508-X:When word spreads that Military Intelligence officer Malachy Kitchen, posted to Iraq, was 'yellow' under hostile fire, his life starts to disintegrate. Kicked out of the army, he becomes an isolated recluse on a drugs-infested London estate. But the mugging of an elderly widow draws him to regain his lost pride.
Notes
External links
* [http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/geraldseymour/ Gerald Seymour official website]
* [http://www.geraldseymour.co.uk/ Gerald Seymour unofficial website]
* [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chevron/geraldseymour/ Gerald Seymour - The Art of Danger] – Jack's Gerald Seymour site
Источник: Gerald Seymour
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