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A Duty of Care
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‘Compelling . . . almost Dickensian’ Times ‘The best thriller writer in the world’ Daily Telegraph * Jonas Merrick - a legendary intelligence analyst for MI5 - has been banished to the Post Room of Thames House. There, he is expected to pass his remaining days...
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An intense modern spy thriller, ranging from the gruesomely bleak gulags of Russia to the isolation of the Albanian mountains, A Duty of Care finds Gerald Seymour once again at the top of his game.
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‘Compelling . . . almost Dickensian’ Times
‘The best thriller writer in the world’ Daily Telegraph
*
Jonas Merrick - a legendary intelligence analyst for MI5 - has been banished to the Post Room of Thames House. There, he is expected to pass his remaining days before inevitable retirement.
In a Russian gulag, an MI6 agent has developed an unlikely passion for a prisoner and has come up with an ingenious plan to free her. The key: a ruthless Albanian gang laundering the dirty money of the Russian elite.
Merrick, the only agent with the experience to help, is brought back once again to intercept the Albanian courier until an exchange is organised by the Russians.
But when it transpires that the courier is the heir of the criminal gang's leader, the danger mounts, and Merrick once again finds himself in a situation spiralling towards a bloody confrontation.
Frighteningly topical and intensely plotted, Jonas Merrick - one of the great figures of modern spy fiction - returns in A Duty of Care
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399722063
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 480g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Gerald Seymour exploded onto the literary scene in 1975 with the massive bestseller HARRY'S GAME. The first major thriller to tackle the modern troubles in Northern Ireland, it was described by Frederick Forsyth as 'like nothing else I have ever read' and it changed the landscape of the British thriller forever.
Gerald Seymour was a reporter at ITN for fifteen years. He covered events in Vietnam, Borneo, Aden, the Munich Olympics, Israel and Northern Ireland. He has been a full-time writer since 1978.Also by Gerald Seymour
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