In At The Kill (Jonas Merrick series)

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In At The Kill (Jonas Merrick series)

In At The Kill (Jonas Merrick series)

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Having been assigned, he works as assiduously as ever, and the fact that he has a wholly new sphere of external contacts to deal with, does not make him try to be any more gracious or amenable than he has been in the past. The players were well written and interesting, the plot intrigued and I should have loved it but I didn't. I found the first 100 pp fairly slow going but the pace picked up very quickly after that and the last quarter or so of this novel is as tense and exciting as any of Seymour’s previous works. In the 3rd book in the series he is tasked in regards to an OCG (organised crime group) a sleepy backwater of SIS, out of sight and out of mind scenario. I think I've read all of Gerald Seymour's books but find this and the other Jonas Merrick books tough going.

I wonder how far Gerald Seymour can extend this series before the personality of Merrick becomes so odious to the reader that they can’t take any more.However he again retains his deep engagement and concern with those agents undercover at the front line. A very wordy book and till you get into it, quite confusing with the long chapters and chopping and changing of where the action is taking place. Other similar authors include: John le Carre, Len Deighton, Graham Greene, Alan Furst, Mick Herron, Ted Allbeury, Robert Ludlum, Dan Fesperman, Simon Conway, Henry Porter and Adam Brookes. This represents the third outing for Jonas Merrick, MI5’s querulous counter-intelligence data analyst. The set up is deftly drawn (drugs shipment due to land in Spain), the characters established early on but then not much happens for a very long time.

Every Seymour novel is like a runaway train heading down a sloping track, steadily gathering pace until eventually it crashes, with inevitable consequences for the characters, good and bad, that he has introduced us to. He always sets out good plots but his writing style is starting to irritate with his insistence on using three or four similes when one will do and how he painfully tries to avoid clichés.In Jonas Merrick, Seymour has created a fascinating, annoying and infuriating character everyone who has ever worked in a large organisation can relate to - the apparently irrelevant jobsworth who quietly and meticulously weaves his web and achieves results that surprise all of those who have dismissed him as a nobody. After thirty odd novels with different protagonists, it's perverse to have such a dull central figure for our first regular character. The only drag back for me is despite a great lead character and plausible supporting cast and storylines, the big crescendo that is seemingly built up never arrives. He soon finds himself at the centre of a network of informants, undercover operatives and contacts from a collection of police and intelligence services around the globe. Despite Vera's warnings, he also shows signs here of wanting to emerge from behind his desk, to get "in at the kill".

Jonas Merrick works in counter surveillance helping to keep the country safe and break any criminal enterprises. In 1999, he featured in the Oscar-winning television film, One Day in September, which portrayed the Munich Olympics massacre.But while Jonas’s colleagues regard him as scratchy, fastidious, old, he is also ruthless, cunning and brutally pragmatic.



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