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The Crocodile Hunter

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781529386011

Price: £18.99

ON SALE: 15th April 2021

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Thriller / Suspense

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‘Enthralling’ – The Sunday Times

‘Compelling’ – The Times

A thrilling story of the secret services, their enemies and the society they operate in, building with unrelenting suspense to a superb climax, The Crocodile Hunter is Gerald Seymour writing at the top of his powers.

In the office at MI5 where he works, they call Jonas Merrick ‘the eternal flame’. It isn’t a compliment. It’s because he never goes out. He never goes undercover, never does surveillance, never goes with the teams that kick down the doors or seize the suspects off the street. He commutes into work and sits at his desk and then he goes home.

But Jonas has qualities the hot-shots fail to notice: a steely concentration, a ruthless ability to focus and find the enemy hiding in plain sight.

Hearing of a British Jihadi returning from Syria with murderous plans, Jonas sends out for a telling photograph: a crocodile, almost submerged, just its eyes above water as it waits for unsuspecting prey to drink at the riverbank.

Coming ashore near Dover, Cameron Jilkes is a young man from a broken home and a failed education, trained in the harshest theatre of war, driven to rage by loss and pain.

And this time, ‘the eternal flame’ must go out – to hunt the crocodile himself.

‘A novel displaying all the author’s many strengths, from his John le Carré-like ability to portray the intelligence world from top to bottom, to its line up of memorable supporting characters’ The Sunday Times on BEYOND RECALL

Readers love THE CROCODILE HUNTER:

‘Another winner from Gerald Seymour’ 5*

‘An outstanding book and thoroughly recommended’ 5*

‘Every year without fail . . . Gerald Seymour comes up with a masterful thriller . . . A wonderful read from a master of his craft’ 5*

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He has never lost his journalist's eye for the stories behind the news
The Sunday Times
Compelling novel . . . Seymour's feel for the Kent landscape and his realisation of minor characters, such as Cameron's heart-hardened mother, are almost Dickensian
The Times
Another fine spy story with an offbeat protagonist.
Peterborough Telegraph
The three British masters of suspense, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, and John le Carre, have been joined by a fourth - Gerald Seymour
The New York Times