
A Line in the Sand
Author: Gerald Seymour
Narrator: Simon Prebble
Unabridged: 15 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/16/2011
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Author: Gerald Seymour
Narrator: Simon Prebble
Unabridged: 15 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/16/2011
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Gerald Seymour was a reporter at ITN for fifteen years, where his first assignment was covering the Great Train Robbery in 1963. He later covered events in Vietnam, Borneo, Aden, Israel, and Northern Ireland. Seymour was on the streets of Londonderry on the afternoon of Bloody Sunday, and was a witness to the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. 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 United States.
Seymour never fails with his detailed, sophisticated, multilayered novels. He is the best incremental storyteller in his field. He ranks with the best - Greene, Le Carre, Deighton and Ludlum. 'A Line in the Sand' illustrates the financial and personal cost when one of their own MI5 members needs pro......more
Although the book is based in the 1990's its written like something from the 1950's, a bit Tally ho and old fashioned. Slow moving and action sparse, stuck with it hoping for a decent last 100 pages and it fell a bit flat, bit like the rest of the book, shame really.........more
Line in the Sand is a great example of why I'm such a fan of Gerald Seymour. He's a talented writer who knows the business of spying, the Middle East, and police procedures, and he knows how to put together a story that truly engages the reader. In this case, the main character happens to betray the......more