Vagabond: A Thriller
Mar 2024 · Macmillan
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"[A] British spymaster delivers [a] first-rate effort—this one focused on an old-fashioned hero facing up to new challenges" as Irish terrorists arms up ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Danny Curnow, known in the army family by his call sign, Vagabond, ran agents, informers. Played God with their lives and their deaths, and was the best at his job—and he quit when the stress overwhelmed him.
Now he lives in quiet isolation and works as a guide to tourists visiting the monuments and cemeteries of an earlier, simpler, conflict on Normandy's D-Day beaches.
Until the call comes from an old boss, Bentinick.
Violence in Northern Ireland is on the rise again. Weapons are needed for a new campaign. Gaby Davies of MI5, sparky and ambitious, runs the double agent Ralph Exton, who will be the supposed middle man in brokering an arms deal with a Russian contact, Timofey.
The covert world of deception and betrayal was close to destroying Danny across the Irish Sea. Fifteen years later the stakes are higher, the risks greater, and there is an added agenda on the table. If he wants to survive, Danny will have to prove, to himself, that he has not softened, that he is as hard and ruthless as before.
Praise for Gerald Seymour
"Seymour excels at creating characters with deep backstories. . . . best of all, the legendary double agent . . . Danny Curnow." — Publishers Weekly
"Suspense master Seymour dazzles with commanding language and meticulous detail." — Entertainment Weekly
"Seymour . . . does his research, thinks hard about his story and gives us richly imagined novels that bristle with authenticity." — Washington Post
"In a class of his own." — The Times (London)
Danny Curnow, known in the army family by his call sign, Vagabond, ran agents, informers. Played God with their lives and their deaths, and was the best at his job—and he quit when the stress overwhelmed him.
Now he lives in quiet isolation and works as a guide to tourists visiting the monuments and cemeteries of an earlier, simpler, conflict on Normandy's D-Day beaches.
Until the call comes from an old boss, Bentinick.
Violence in Northern Ireland is on the rise again. Weapons are needed for a new campaign. Gaby Davies of MI5, sparky and ambitious, runs the double agent Ralph Exton, who will be the supposed middle man in brokering an arms deal with a Russian contact, Timofey.
The covert world of deception and betrayal was close to destroying Danny across the Irish Sea. Fifteen years later the stakes are higher, the risks greater, and there is an added agenda on the table. If he wants to survive, Danny will have to prove, to himself, that he has not softened, that he is as hard and ruthless as before.
Praise for Gerald Seymour
"Seymour excels at creating characters with deep backstories. . . . best of all, the legendary double agent . . . Danny Curnow." — Publishers Weekly
"Suspense master Seymour dazzles with commanding language and meticulous detail." — Entertainment Weekly
"Seymour . . . does his research, thinks hard about his story and gives us richly imagined novels that bristle with authenticity." — Washington Post
"In a class of his own." — The Times (London)
About the author
GERALD SEYMOUR was a reporter at ITN for fifteen years, where his first assignment was covering the Great Train Robbery in 1963. Seymour's first novel was the acclaimed thriller Harry's Game, set in Belfast, which became an instant international bestseller and later a television series. Six of Seymour's thrillers have now been filmed for television in the UK and U.S. The Outsiders is his twenty-ninth novel.
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