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With Condition Black Gerald Seymour comes into his own as . . . one of the most professional practitioners of the British political thriller. ( The New York Times. Set in the Middle East and completed just before the invasion of Kuwait, in Condition Black Seymour intertwines two plot threads that prove him to be a prophet of today's headlines.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Seymour ( Running Target ) utilizes a solid knowledge of Middle East politics, diplomatic protocol and the international intelligence community to weave a plausible scenario of prewar Iraqi skulduggery. An unlikely eyewitness to the murder of a CIA operative sets FBI agent Bill Erlich on the trail of an assassin named Colt. Meanwhile, Iraqi bosses have given Colt a new target in England so he can visit his dying mother and recruit a British nuclear scientist who could help Iraq build an atomic bomb. While the intrigue is credible, the characters are not to be believed. Erlich's British Intelligence liaison, James Rutherford, routinely fills his wife in on the daily happenings at the office while Erlich calls his girlfriend in Italy no less than three times on unsecured phone lines to keep her up to date. His girlfriend, by the way, is a CBS field reporter--but she won't tell, will she? Colt, for his part, confesses all to his old flame after walking casually into the village pub right after Erlich and Rutherford have come to his father's house looking for him. Seymour's readers expect better than this. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

British espionage author Seymour's latest effort is powered by a chillingly authentic premise. His hunter is an FBI agent investigating the accidental shooting of a fellow operative by a young English assassin, codenamed COLT, who is in the employ of the Iraqi government and whose real target is a scientist working to undermine the Iraqis' quest for nuclear weaponry. While the distance between COLT and his hunter shortens, a financially troubled British scientist finds himself drawn inexorably into the profitable world of betrayal. The novel's COLT sections provide tense thrills, guarded motives, and workmanlike plotting, but few real surprises. When the focus turns to the British scientist, however, Seymour offers his readers a carefully documented glimpse of the day-to-day toil endured by a lower-middle-class family battling ruin. There is something strangely endearing about the agonized traitor, and this beleaguered scientist, struggling with both officialdom and conscience, evokes our sympathy as completely as Maurice Castle does in Graham Greene's Human Factor. ~--Peter Robertson

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Gerald Seymour was born on November 25, 1941 in Guilford, Surrey, England. He received a BA Honors degree in Modern History from University College London. He was a broadcast journalist who covered many overseas conflicts including the Vietnam War, the Munich Olympics massacre, and Palestinian militant groups.

His first book, Harry's Game, was published in 1975 and soon afterwards, he retired from journalism to become a full-time author. Many of his other books were adapted into television movies and Field of Blood was adapted as the feature film, The Informant, starring Timothy Dalton.

(Bowker Author Biography)