Condition Black - Hardcover

Seymour Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444790234 ISBN 13: 9781444790238

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013

Synopsis

With CONDITION BLACK, Gerald Seymour comes into his own, with this book written 1991. Over the course of a dozen novels, he has long been at the top of the aficionados' list of international thriller writers, but while others have been replaying Cold War Communist scenarios and rehashng Nazi evil, he has been writing and warning us of the real dangers in which we are living. CONDITION BLACK, completed just before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, is the third consecutive novel that Seymour has set in the Middle East. In an Author's Note, written after the invasino, he states, " .... There were a few men, a tiny minority, n the gray world of the international intelligence community, who had warned of the gathering storm: and they were not heeded. The few spoke out, the many did not listen. A host of excuses were readily readily at hand to justify the ignoring of the danger. Iraq was the enemy of Iran, and therefore Saddam Hussein was to be humored. The weight of power politics and money counted, and the cost of those months of inactivity while the war machine of Iraq prepared can now be reckoned. This is a story of those wasted months, and of the many who closed their ears and shut their eyes and who were governed by stupidity and self-interest and greed, and of the brave few who cried of the danger." In his acute insight into the British Establishment, American ambition, the international agencies, and the perils of the Middle East, including startling scenes within Iraq, Gerald Seymour once again demostrates that he is a prophet of our headlines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1444790234
• ISBN 13: 9781444790238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1