A Duty of Care

PRAISE FOR GERALD SEYMOUR: You don’t read Gerald Seymour, you commit to it totally. His stories have amazing detail, yet you still fly through them. And your effort is well rewarded * Sun * There are strong echoes of George Smiley in Merrick’s mild and unprepossessing manner, which disguises a razor-sharp brain and considerable courage when necessary * Financial Times * The great strength of Seymour’s writing lies in his depiction of the poor bloody infantry of crime and policing * Times * Seymour’s finger is always on the current socio-political pulse * i News * [Seymour] has lost none of his talent for thrilling plots and creating credible and sympathetic characters, nor his journalist’s eye for modern espionage tradecraft and techniques * Shots Magazine * Supreme spy writer * Peterborough Telegraph * [Charles] Cumming is perhaps matched only by Gerald Seymour now when it comes to recounting field operations * Sunday Times *

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.