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The Crocodile Hunter

By: Gerald Seymour
Narrated by: Ben Allen
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A thrilling story of the secret services, their enemies and the society they operate in, building with unrelenting suspense to a superb climax, The Crocodile Hunter is Gerald Seymour writing at the top of his powers.

In the office at MI5 where he works, they call Jonas Merrick 'the eternal flame'. It isn't a compliment. It's because he never goes out. He never goes undercover, never does surveillance, never goes with the teams that kick down the doors or seize the suspects off the street. He commutes into work and sits at his desk and then he goes home. But Jonas has qualities the hot-shots fail to notice: a steely concentration, a ruthless ability to focus and find the enemy hiding in plain sight.

Hearing of a British Jihadi returning from Syria with murderous plans, Jonas sends out for a telling photograph: a crocodile, almost submerged, just its eyes above water as it waits for unsuspecting prey to drink at the riverbank. Coming ashore near Dover, Cameron Jilkes is a young man from a broken home and a failed education, trained in the harshest theatre of war, driven to rage by loss and pain. And this time, 'the eternal flame' must go out - to hunt the crocodile himself.

©2021 Gerald Seymour (P)2020 W F Howes Crime Thrillers Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction Thriller Exciting Middle East War
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Another deliciously plotted, absolutely relevant page turner from the Master. Audio book exceptionally well done

Classic Gerald Seymour!

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Gerald Seymour certainly appears to know his stuff. Good story but endless repetition nearly kills it off. Still worth listening to though even if not Seymour’s best. Very well performed.

Too much repetition in this story.

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I picked it up because the author's name rang a bell from the past.
Unfortunately - for me - it IS from a past genre that developed over a few decades. I'd forgotten Seymour's forte:
Writing thrillers based on the premise that all Muslims are either fanatics or support those who are.
I know this appeals to many, but my ethnicity and sense of fairness just cannot go along for this ride.
And coming off a Slough House novel written by Mick Herron, brilliantly balanced, brilliantly written, this stands in sharp and sad contrast.
So, yes, your mileage will vary, influenced by your beliefs.
I'm outta here.

Its time has passed

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Extremely dull and written in a hard manner that makes the book laborious and tedious to listen to. Always on about what somebody if they existed would be thinking about a situation.

Dull

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