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by: Gerald Seymour
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781585676347
ISBN: 1585676349
Label: Overlook Hardcover
Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: February 17, 2005
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Release Date: February 21, 2005
Sales Rank: 604841
Studio: Overlook Hardcover
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Rating:  - SEYMOUR, The Unknown Writer
Mention Le Carre, Forsyth, Deighton there will be a roar of approbation, drop Littell and Charles McCarry into the mix, a few murmurs of appreciation, then gush about Gerald Seymour and get - very little! A shame, as he has an uncanny mixture of reporter's sense of fact, of cause and effect, the ability to convey breathless excitement and impending disaster, a sense of character and language, whichever country or politics prevail, and most of all a strong moral sense of what is true courage and sacrifice ... Read More
Rating:  - Unusual
Gerald Seymour is a one-of-a-kind author. No one else writes books like his. Other reviewers compare him to John LeCarre or Graham Greene, someone of that sort, but the comparisons aren't apt. For one thing, Seymour is more of a storyteller than either of the other two, who specialize more in writing literate novels. For another, the other two are reasonably predictable: if you know the premise of their book, then you'll be able to tell what's going to happen, after a fashion. With Seymour, there are no rules: ... Read More
Rating: - Shades of John le Carre
In the aftermath of the recent London Transport bombings, THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER has a topical theme.
Caleb is a terrorist wannabe - a graduate of an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. But his bad luck resulted in his capture by American troops and incarceration at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where for many months he successfully maintained the cover of being a simple taxi diver caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Finally, released as a PR gesture and returned to Afghanistan under guard, Caleb ... Read More
Rating: - Fiction again becomes fact
Gerald Seymour is up to his usual "who will win" tricks in this marvelous story of the West versus Al-Quaida. The story line is plucked directly from the London bombings of July, 2005, but as Tom Clancy predicted events and methodology before 9-11, so does Seymour in "The Unknown Soldier". This book was written before more than 300 were killed or wounded on the London Transit System by suicide bombers who were British-born. That event makes this book all the more shocking.
"Do you have enough hate?" ... Read More
Rating:  - Walking through the desert would be a pleasure.
compared to reading this book...
First, I may be one of a few score of Americans who have first edition hardcovers of 22 Gerald Seymour novels. Great stories, must reads!
Second, there is a blurb on the back cover of this book that says," Once in the final 150 pages, you will not be able to stop for a cup of tea or even breathe much". The reason is ....you'll be in a coma!
Third, at page 300 I'd rather have been in a sun-drenched desert with a fetid camel blowing snot on me than reading this book. ... Read More
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