I just found this cover to Gerald Seymour's next novel, The Collaborator on Amazon UK.
The book is due out on 17 September 2009 from his new publisher, Hodder & Stoughton.
As the cover text implies the book appears to be focusing on Mafia goings-on rather than his usual terrorism related plots.
Seymour is officially my favourite author who is still writing books.
My Gerald Seymour site can be found at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chevron/geraldseymour/
I HAVE JUST FINISHED READING THE ABOVE OFFERING OF MR.SEYMOURS AND FOUND THAT IT WAS RATHER HO HUM AND ENCOURAGED ONE TO 'SCAN' RATHER THAN READ THE PAGES KNOWING WHAT WAS COMING AHEAD OF TIME. THAT IS UNTIL UNTIL I REACHED A SECTION (P.294)THAT BRIEFLY INTRODUCED AN AUSSIE COUPLE TO FILL IN HALF A PAGE WHERE HE CONDESCENDINGLY ACCUSED THEM OF THINKING THEY WERE 'IN BLOODY WOOLAGONG ON THE BONDI'!! THIS STOPPED ME DEAD, AND AFTER I HAD STOPPED LAUGHING, BECAME INDIGNANT AND LASTLY, PERPLEXED, AS I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT AN AUTHOR IN HIS POSITION WOULD HAVE THE WHERE-WITH-ALL TO EMPLOY RESEARCHERS AND PROOF READERS CAPABLE OF POINTING OUT THAT WOLLONGONG (PLEASE NOT THE SPELLING!)IS 112KL FROM SYDNEY AND A CITY IN IT SELF, WHILST BONDI IS 7 K'S FROM SYDNEY AND IS A BEACH SUBURB AND NOTHING IS 'ON IT' EXCEPT SUNBURNT BODIES! IF MR.SEYMOUR HAS HELP, THEN HE SHOULD FIRE THEM AND JUST DROP ME LINE IF HE WANTS TO KNOW ANYTHING AUSTRALIAN INSTEAD OF EMBARRASSING HIMSELF.
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