Battle Sight Zero by Gerald Seymour (English) Paperback Book

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The brand new novel from 'Britain's finest thriller novelist' (i Paper on A Damned Serious Business)

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'Seymour produces the most intelligent writing in the thriller genre' Financial Times***From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickThe Kalashnikov AK47. A weapon with a unique image. A symbol of freedom fighters and terrorists across the globe. Undercover officer Andy Knight has infiltrated an extremist group intent on bringing the rifle to Britain - something MI5 have been struggling for years to prevent. He befriends Zeinab, the young Muslim student from Yorkshire who is at the centre of the plot. All Zeinab needs to do is travel to the impoverished high-rise estates of Marseilles and bring one rifle home on a test run. Then many more will follow - and with them would come killing on an horrendous scale. Zeinab is both passionate and attractive, and though Andy knows that the golden rule of undercover work is not to get emotionally attached to the target, sometimes rules are impossible to follow. Supremely suspenseful, Battle Sight Zero follows Andy and Zeinab to the lethal badlands of the French port city, simultaneously tracking the extraordinary life journey of the blood-soaked weapon they are destined to be handed there.

Author Biography

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.

Review

He now writes better endings than anyone else, and the extended finale is particularly brilliantly orchestrated. - The Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month on A Damned Serious BusinessBritain's finest thriller novelist is still the veteran Gerald Seymour, whose touch remains sure - i Paper on A Damned Serious BusinessAsk aficionados who is Britain's finest thriller writer, and many would answer the veteran Gerald Seymour... A Damned Serious Business sees him once again firing on all cylinders...The hazardous mission is palm-sweatily convincing - Guardian on A Damned Serious Business

Long Description

'Seymour produces the most intelligent writing in the thriller genre' Financial Times *** From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick The Kalashnikov AK47. A weapon with a unique image. A symbol of freedom fighters and terrorists across the globe. Undercover officer Andy Knight has infiltrated an extremist group intent on bringing the rifle to Britain - something MI5 have been struggling for years to prevent. He befriends Zeinab, the young Muslim student from Yorkshire who is at the centre of the plot. All Zeinab needs to do is travel to the impoverished high-rise estates of Marseilles and bring one rifle home on a test run. Then many more will follow - and with them would come killing on an horrendous scale.Zeinab is both passionate and attractive, and though Andy knows that the golden rule of undercover work is not to get emotionally attached to the target, sometimes rules are impossible to follow. Supremely suspenseful, Battle Sight Zero follows Andy and Zeinab to the lethal badlands of the French port city, simultaneously tracking the extraordinary life journey of the blood-soaked weapon they are destined to be handed there.

Review Quote

He now writes better endings than anyone else, and the extended finale is particularly brilliantly orchestrated.

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The brand new novel from 'Britain's finest thriller novelist' ( i Paper on A Damned Serious Business)

Details ISBN1473663539 Author Gerald Seymour Pages 448 Year 2019 ISBN-10 1473663539 ISBN-13 9781473663534 Format Paperback Imprint Hodder Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.92 Publisher Hodder & Stoughton Language English UK Release Date 2019-11-28 Publication Date 2019-11-28 Audience General NZ Release Date 2019-11-25 AU Release Date 2019-11-25 We've got this

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