The Outsiders

Those [Seymour] sends off into dangerous territory are, in fact, his readers. With each book, we enter a dangerous universe, and are totally involved with utterly plausible characters, faced with moral choices that are rarely straightforward … The single most important element here is the obsessive Winnie, whose pursuit of revenge for her dead agent is the motor for all that happens. Winnie is a forceful creation, with her burning resentment against those who feel contempt for the way the rest of us live. - Independent

Once again demonstrating his ability to probe the moral murkiness of the spy trade and create an absorbingly diverse ensemble, Seymour crafts a sophisticated, reader-teasing tale. - The Sunday Times

[Seymour’s] books are rich in the drama of people reacting to events and situations they never could have expected. - Weekend Press, New Zealand

Picking up a novel by Gerald Seymour is like taking a deep breath of fresh air … his subject here is the Middle East, presented with a vividness and veracity that makes most of his rivals look footling … As always with Seymour, the sense of a minatory foreign landscape is acutely rendered … never have the badlands of Iraq been evoked with such oppressive rigour. And how many other writers would have fleshed out the bomb-maker, who would simply represent “evil” in most thrillers? Seymour allows us into the life and consciousness of this man, movingly describing his marriage to a mortally ill woman. When readers get to the nailbiting climax, involving an agonising wait for airborne rescue, they may be wondering why they should bother with any other thriller writer. - Independent

Seymour is a master of the thriller set on the murky edges of modern war … As ever he juggles action, context and suspense with a special-forces level of expertise. How long before he turns to Libya? - i

Gerald Seymour is the grand-master of the contemporary thriller and Deniable Death is his greatest work yet. Gripping, revealing and meticulously researched, this is a page-turning masterpiece that will literally leave you breathless. - Major Chris Hunter, author of Extreme Risk

After 28 novels, Seymour’s empathy for those he ensnares in his moral minefields remains movingly even-handed. - Daily Telegraph

gripping thriller - Sun

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.

Seymour’s first novel was the acclaimed thriller HARRY’S GAME, set in Belfast, and since then six of his thrillers have been filmed for television in the UK and US. THE OUTSIDERS is Seymour’s twenty-ninth novel.