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Timebomb
by: Gerald Seymour

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780593060056
ISBN: 0593060059
Label: Bantam Press
Manufacturer: Bantam Press
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: June 02, 2008
Publisher: Bantam Press
Studio: Bantam Press
Sales Rank: 89897

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Rubbish is probably a good description
I mostly agree with the reviews that have 'rubbish' in their title. As for the review that says 'grips like a vice', then 'grips like an infectious disease' is more like it, in that you can't wait for it to be over.
The plot strands are so tedious that you find yourself losing the will to live, and you only plough on because you've paid good money for it. He seems to be going for a record in terms of how many strands he can have at any one time, and there are probably about 6, all being kept going in the same chapter, meaning you have to keep skipping back to check which strand you're actually reading. Far better to have each chapter with its own strand, but this guy obviously prefers the cluttered, mishmash approach.
Unless you're ... Read More:

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- Distinctively Seymour - the best in the world
Seymour writes serious and 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, and disaffected ex-Soviet military officers with access to nuclear weapons.

It has the usual Seymour hallmarks. 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, and though Seymour shies away from direct comment on moral issues there is, as is normal in his books, a strong sense of right and wrong. The writing is vivid and powerful, ... Read More:

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- Rubbish
I have enjoyed a number of this author's book but this one was very disappointing. I struggled to finish the book - Weak plot and extremely boring

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- biggest load of rubbish ever
Sorry I forked out money for this. Total lack of continuity. No real plot and very badly written. So disappointing.

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- Slow start....then grips like a vice.
Gerald Seymour's rich vein of form continues with his latest novel.Set in the present day it is a thriller about the supply and purchase of a former soviet dirty bomb and 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 and 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) and I feared that this might be such a book.
Seymour uses a writing style that it weighty narative and little dialogue, the characters are as ever deeply layered and complex.The plotting is tight and has a stronger grip on the ... Read More:

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