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Gerald Seymour


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in Guildford, Surrey, The United Kingdom
November 25, 1941

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Gerald Seymour (born 25 November 1941 in Guildford, Surrey) is a British writer.

The son of two literary figures, he was educated at Kelly College at Tavistock in Devon and took a BA Hons degree in Modern History at University College London. Initially a journalist, he joined ITN in 1963, covering such topics as the Great Train Robbery, Vietnam, Ireland, the Munich Olympics massacre, Germany's Red Army, Italy's Red Brigades and Palestinian militant groups. His first book, Harry's Game, was published in 1975, and Seymour then became a full-time novelist, living in the West Country. In 1999, he featured in the Oscar-winning television film, One Day in September, which portrayed the Munich Olympics massacre.
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Average rating: 3.99 · 23,091 ratings · 1,669 reviews · 100 distinct works • Similar authors
Harry's Game

4.19 avg rating — 2,060 ratings — published 1975 — 53 editions
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The Crocodile Hunter (Jonas...

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The Foot Soldiers

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In at the Kill (Jonas Merri...

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A Deniable Death

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The Collaborator

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Jericho's War

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Beyond Recall

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A Damned Serious Business

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“Others determined the morality. Others had the hatred. Others turned his work into victories. He did as he was told, expertise his trade mark. The soldier in his army.”
― Gerald Seymour, Harry's Game

“for ideas, nor Lennie. Adrian was good with ideas, better than Henry. Have to be Adrian who was going to crack it, and then the team would all thrash it round. Wouldn’t see their feet for dust once they’d settled on an idea. Clear memories, faces clear in his mind, Colonel Basil, and Lennie who had the limp from the ambush in Cyprus, and Adrian who’d bloody near lost his career in the gentlemen’s toilet at Piccadilly underground, and Henry . . . Shit, and wouldn’t Henry have been up for retirement, gone to breed the bloody pigeons he always talked of. What if they’d”
― Gerald Seymour, A Song in the Morning

“peering through a slit in the armour plate and hearing the drumming of rifle fire. She did not know whether the cousins, two names and one face, had been armed with them – or had been asleep in a makeshift barracks, or had been grunting through sex with one of the child girls who went there with the fervent adoration of converts, and a bomb or a missile had struck their building. She thought it would have been a cruel fate to have died at the hand of the enemy and without an AK to hold, as she had, in his hand. The answer to the question? She yearned for a form of recognition. Never listened to at home. Never really shone at school, except for a minimal”
― Gerald Seymour, Battle Sight Zero

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