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Timebomb | 
 enlarge | Author: Gerald Seymour
Publisher: Bantam Press
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2157
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.6
ISBN: 0593060059
EAN: 9780593060056
ASIN: 0593060059
Publication Date: June 2, 2008
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 biggest load of rubbish ever July 9, 2008
Sorry I forked out money for this. Total lack of continuity. No real plot and very badly written. So disappointing.
 Slow start....then grips like a vice. June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gerald Seymour's rich vein of form continues with his latest novel.Set in the present day it is a thriller about the supply and purchase of a former soviet dirty bomb and British Intellegence efforts to prevent a disaster from happening. This novel does begin slowly, partly because Seymour has assembled a vast cast of characters in this book and it takes the first 100 hundred pages or so for the strands to pull together.Every so often Seymour writes a novel that I just can't get into ('Traitors Kiss' being the last) and I feared that this might be such a book.
Seymour uses a writing style that it weighty narative and little dialogue, the characters are as ever deeply layered and complex.The plotting is tight and has a stronger grip on the reader as the pace and tension increases and all within his standard 20 chapters.
His lead Character Carrick is simular to other Seymour characters so far as that he is a troubled loner sent into a dangerous situation undercover, a ploy that Seymour used in his first novel 'Harry's Game ' and continued with books such as 'The Jouneyman Tailor' 'Killing Ground' and 'The Untouchable'.
This is Seymour's 25th novel in 33 years. Few writers, if any have kept up such a high standard of work for so long. He is in my opinion the best spy thriller writer at this time.
Compelling - but not in the usual way June 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I looked forward to this latest Gerald Seymour novel and was delighted when it arrived.
In common with many other of Seymour's later novels it takes a while to get into the plot. The constant switching between scenes and characters does not make for an easy read. You keep reading because you are sure it is going to "burst into flames" at any moment - and sometimes it does.
The characterisation and the detailed research and scene=setting is unmistakeable Seymour, and thoroughly done - but this novel, for me at least, lacks the compelling development of storyline and plot.
It is a vital part of the plot that it is interwoven with the telling of a horrifying sequence of events in the concentration camps. To be honest I felt this was overdone - but it did make sense in the end.
I will still wait with anticipation the next of Seymour's novels - but this one does not quite stand with his others.
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