Timebomb - Softcover

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Gerald Seymour was one of the UK's premier television news reporters. He was an eyewitness, up close and on the ground, to some of the epoch-changing events of the last decades. He was on the streets of Londonderry on Bloody Sunday when paratroops clashed with Irish demonstrators. He was at the Munich Olympics and saw the agony of Israeli athletes held hostage by Palestinian gunmen and then the catastrophic failure of the German police to save them. He was in Rome in the cruel days when the Red Brigade captured Aldo Moro, a veteran politician, then savagely murdered him. His first novel, Harry's Game, was an instant bestseller and immediately established Seymour as one of the most cutting-edge and incisive thriller writers in the UK and around the world. Since then, his extraordinary blend of breathtaking storytelling and current-events prescience has held his many readers in his spell.

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The past will always haunt you...

Fired from a top secret Soviet nuclear base in the chaotic last days of the communist regime, a KGB security man steals a suitcase bomb, smuggles it out and buries it in his backyard. Sixteen years later he's going to put it on the market. It's as lethal as the day it was manufactured - capable of wiping out a major city.

Discarded, abandoned, resentful, the Russian will sell to the highest bidder - in this case, a Mafia gangster with no conscience for the consequences. The exchange will take place in a remote sector of the Polish-Belarus frontier. The chance of it being intercepted will depend on the skill, and luck, of a small MI6 team, who have only the sketchiest idea of what's going on - and on the nerve of an undercover police officer who has infiltrated the criminal gang.

But can that officer be trusted to deliver? He is under the control of a hugely charismatic gang leader, isolated and in great danger. An MI6 psychologist predicts the risk of him switching allegiance mid-operation. If he does, and the bomb gets through, the damage would be incalculable. With the clock ticking down to the handover, the MI6 team must find their man and protect him from himself - at all costs...

SEYMOUR is

'The master...on every possible count'

Sunday Times

'A brilliant storyteller'

Sunday Express

'A master of his craft'

Sunday Telegraph