Timebomb - Hardcover

Seymour, Gerald

 
9780593060056: Timebomb
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0593060059 ISBN 13: 9780593060056
Verlag: Bantam Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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. An exchange point in Eastern Europe is agreed upon. Travelling with the buyer is an undercover policeman, working for MI6. But as their shadowy journey across Europe begins, it becomes clear to a top psychiatrist at MI6, that their man may be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and the whole operation is very likely to be thrown into jeopardy ...

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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. Among them, 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 have held his many readers in his spell.

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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 on the day it was manufactured capable of effectively wiping out a major city. Discarded, abandoned, resentful, the Russian will sell to the highest bidder in this case, a Mafia gangster who has 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 Timebomb is a thriller of this moment when the world has never been more under threat and the authorities never less sure of who they are fighting. Both an edge-of-the-seat race against time and a long, cold look at where we are now, it takes the reader out into the real world and shows who is really running the show

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Verlag
Bantam Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0593060059
ISBN 13 
9780593060056
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
432
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