A Deniable Death: A Thriller

A page-turning thriller of life and death in the moral maze of the post-9/11 world from the international bestselling author and best spy novelist ever (Philadelphia Inquirer). The rules are simple. Break up your shape. Hide your smell. Never show your silhouette. Check the surfaces of your kit. Space the movements of your team. Use the shadows. Danny Badger Baxter has a talent for surveillance. Hes always followed the rules. Until now theyve kept him alive.. But now Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Northern Irish Republicans in muddy Ulster fields or Islamic extremists on rainswept Yorkshire moors. MI6 have a plan to assassinate the Engineer―a brilliant maker of Improvised Explosive Devices the roadside bombs which account for 80% of Allied casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. The spooks know hes planning to leave his home in Iran. They just need to find out when and where hes traveling.. So Badger finds himself on the wrong side of the Iranian border burdened with a partner he loathes lying under a merciless sun in a mosquito-infested marsh observing the house. If things go wrong as far as Her Majestys Government is concerned his part in the plot is completely deniable. With A Deniable Death Gerald Seymour expertly explores the moral compromises of the secret world upon which we rely for our everyday security - and the amazing reserves of courage which ordinary people can find in extraordinary circumstances. A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2013