Harry's Game

Front Cover
Hodder & Stoughton, Jun 20, 2013 - Fiction - 320 pages

A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!

A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in Belfast, and they must resort to more unorthodox methods to unearth him. Ill prepared and poorly briefed, undercover agent Harry Brown is sent into the heart of enemy territory to infiltrate the terrorists.

But when it is a race against the clock, mistakes are made and corners cut. For Harry Brown, alone in a city of strangers, where an intruder is the subject of immediate gossip and rumour, one false move is enough to leave him fatally isolated...

 

Contents

Introduction To The Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Chapter
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20

Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
No Mortal Thing
About The Author
Have You Read
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Harry's Game: A Novel
Gerald Seymour
Snippet view - 1975
Harry's Game: A Novel
Gerald Seymour
Snippet view - 1975
Harry's Game
Gerald Seymour
No preview available - 1999
View all »

Common terms and phrases

Andersonstown Ardoyne Armalite army asked Ballymurphy bastard Belfast Belgrave Square Billy Downs bloody Brigade British bugger called close commander Crumlin Danby Davidson Delrosa didn’t door Downs’s driver Duffryn Duncan eyes face fire Frank front Frost Gerald Seymour girl gone hand Harry Harry’s he’d he’s heard intelligence Josephine Kalashnikov Kesh killed knew Lisburn London Long Kesh looked man’s McEvoy military minutes morning moved night no­one Northern Ireland officer operation patrol pavement photokit police policeman Prime Minister Provisional IRA Provisionals Provos pulled Rennie rifle road round Saracen shooting shot shoulder shouted side soldiers sort Special Patrol Group stayed street talk There’s Theresa they’d thing thought told took troops waiting walked wall watched week what’s wife wouldn’t yards you’re Ypres Avenue

About the author (2013)

Gerald Seymour exploded onto the literary scene in 1975 with the massive bestseller HARRY'S GAME. The first major thriller to tackle the modern troubles in Northern Ireland, it was described by Frederick Forsyth as 'like nothing else I have ever read' and it changed the landscape of the British thriller forever. Gerald Seymour was a reporter at ITN for fifteen years. He covered events in Vietnam, Borneo, Aden, the Munich Olympics, Israel and Northern Ireland. He has been a full-time writer since 1978.

Bibliographic information

TitleHarry's Game
AuthorGerald Seymour
PublisherHodder & Stoughton, 2013
ISBN1444760025, 9781444760026
Length320 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Fiction / Crime
Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage
Fiction / Thrillers / General
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan