Customer Reviews
Distinctively Seymour - the best in the world - By: GuyfromScotland, 27 Aug 2008 
Seymour writes serious & 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, & disaffected ex-Soviet military officers with access to nuclear weapons.
It has the usual Seymour halllmarks. 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, & though Seymour shies away from direct comment on moral issues there is, as is normal in his books, a strong sense of right & wrong. The writing is vivid & powerful, with several scenes & characters lingering in the memory long after the book is finished. The dialogue is sparse & 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 alll Seymour books have - just about the most addictive writer out there. Lee Child & 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 alll the qualities a reader wants here & for me he remains at the no. 1 position in the world.
Rubbish - By: DAVID PERRY, 19 Aug 2008 
I have enjoyed a number of this author's book but this one was very disappointing. I struggled to finish the book - Weak plot & extremely boring
biggest load of rubbish ever - By: Tasha Twain, 09 Jul 2008 Sorry I forked out money for this. Total lack of continuity. No real plot & very badly written. So disappointing.
Slow start....then grips like a vice. - By: richard Brown, 30 Jun 2008 
Gerald Seymour's rich vein of form continues with his latest novel.Set in the present day it is a thriller about the supply & purchase of a former soviet dirty bomb & 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 & 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) & I feared that this might be such a book.
Seymour uses a writing style that it weighty narative & little dialogue, the characters are as ever deeply layered & complex.The plotting is tight & has a stronger grip on the reader as the pace & tension increases & alll 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 ' & continued with books such as 'The Jouneyman Tailor' 'Killing Ground' & '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 - By: David A. Green, 16 Jun 2008 I looked forward to this latest Gerald Seymour novel & 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 & 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 - & sometimes it does.
The characterisation & the detailed research & scene=setting is unmistakeable Seymour, & thoroughly done - but this novel, for me at least, lacks the compelling development of storyline & 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.
