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Timebomb | 
| Author: Gerald Seymour
Publisher: Corgi Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 2515
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 576
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 0552156620
EAN: 9780552156622
ASIN: 0552156620
Publication Date: October 23, 2008
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 Distinctively Seymour - the best in the world August 27, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Seymour writes serious and highly compelling thrillers which illuminate important parts of modern life that are often ignored or hidden. Here he deals with the terrifying potential interactions among organised crime, fundamentalism Islamic terrorism, and disaffected ex-Soviet military officers with access to nuclear weapons.
It has the usual Seymour hallmarks. He constructs several different threads which are woven into a powerful climax; here the use of retrospective narratives are unusual for him, but they fit well. Several different perspectives are provided, and though Seymour shies away from direct comment on moral issues there is, as is normal in his books, a strong sense of right and wrong. The writing is vivid and powerful, with several scenes and characters lingering in the memory long after the book is finished. The dialogue is sparse and stylised, sometimes slightly too much so for my liking, but I think this does add to the relentless toughness of the writing.
Timebomb also has the extreme unputdownable quality which all Seymour books have - just about the most addictive writer out there. Lee Child and Frederick Forsyth share this quality but few others have it to this degree.
Strongly recommended for those who like books at the heavyweight end of the thriller spectrum. Seymour has all the qualities a reader wants here and for me he remains at the no. 1 position in the world.
 Rubbish August 19, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have enjoyed a number of this author's book but this one was very disappointing. I struggled to finish the book - Weak plot and extremely boring
biggest load of rubbish ever July 9, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
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
5 out of 6 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
7 out of 8 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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