A Deniable Death
Gerald Seymour
A Deniable Death
C.R.O.P.: Covert Rural Observation Posts are places where men like Danny 'Badger' Baxter hide for endless, motionless hours, secretly recording criminal or terrorist activity. But now Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Republicans in muddy Ulster fields or Islamic extremists on rainswept Yorkshire moors. I.E.D.: Improvised Explosive Devices are the roadside bombs which account for 80% of British casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. MI6 have a plan to assassinate the leading maker of these weapons when he leaves his house in Iran to visit Europe. But first, they need to know when he is leaving, and where he is going. So it is that Badger finds himself on the wrong side of the Iranian border, lumbered with a partner he loathes, lying under a merciless sun in a mosquito-infested marsh, observing the house. And knowing that if they are caught, Her Majesty's Government will deny all knowledge of them.
3.2 out of 5 based on 4 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Classification |
Fiction |
| Genre |
Crime, Thrillers & Mystery |
| Format |
Hardback |
| Pages |
448 |
| RRP |
£12.99 |
| Date of Publication |
August 2011 |
| ISBN |
978-1444705850 |
| Publisher |
Hodder & Stoughton |
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C.R.O.P.: Covert Rural Observation Posts are places where men like Danny 'Badger' Baxter hide for endless, motionless hours, secretly recording criminal or terrorist activity. But now Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Republicans in muddy Ulster fields or Islamic extremists on rainswept Yorkshire moors. I.E.D.: Improvised Explosive Devices are the roadside bombs which account for 80% of British casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. MI6 have a plan to assassinate the leading maker of these weapons when he leaves his house in Iran to visit Europe. But first, they need to know when he is leaving, and where he is going. So it is that Badger finds himself on the wrong side of the Iranian border, lumbered with a partner he loathes, lying under a merciless sun in a mosquito-infested marsh, observing the house. And knowing that if they are caught, Her Majesty's Government will deny all knowledge of them.
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Reviews
The Independent
Barry Forshaw
"A Deniable Death once again proves that age cannot wither his nonpareil skills … 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."
19/08/2011
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The Daily Telegraph
Jeremy Jehu
"After 28 novels, Seymour’s empathy for those he ensnares in his moral minefields remains movingly even-handed."
16/08/2011
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The Sunday Times
John Dugdale
"The novel exemplifies Seymour’s ability to create and control a large, vividly drawn ensemble who are unwittingly connected (in this case via two fed-up soldiers) even though they may be as far apart as Helmand and Wootton Bassett. Also characteristic is a Hitchcockian skewing of the reader’s sympathies, with the ostensible good guys in Whitehall shown as coldly ready to sacrifice lives, and the bomb-maker seen in the round as both killer and devoted husband."
18/09/2011
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The Economist
The Economist
"Deftly constructed … There are weaknesses and some of the characterisation feels tired … Yet the grim landscape of the border region and the harsh lives of its inhabitants are skilfully evoked"
13/08/2011
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