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A Deniable Death

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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. He's always followed the rules. Until now, they've 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 has a plan to assassinate the Engineer - a brilliant maker of improvised explosive devices, the roadside bombs that account for 80 percent of Allied casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. The spooks know he's planning to leave his home in Iran. They just need to find out when and where he's 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 Majesty's Government is concerned, his part in the
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from November 26, 2012
      Veteran thriller writer Seymour’s outstanding 26th novel chronicles a British “interdiction” mission in contemporary Iraq and Iran. MI6 agent Len Gibbons assembles a team charged with the “deniable” assassination of “the Engineer,” an Iranian bomb maker whose handiwork (“improvised explosive devices” and “explosive force devices”) is killing U.S. and British soldiers on the Iraqi border. That team includes covert operatives Joe “Foxy” Foulkes and Danny “Badger” Baxter, who undergo an excruciating ordeal in a covert hideout near the Engineer’s home. Seymour (Harry’s Game) is strong on the details of surveillance and spycraft, but on even surer ground with his characters as he focuses on Gibbons’s stoic dedication, Badger’s ruthless single-mindedness, and Foxy’s prideful professionalism. Even the Engineer comes across as a human being, thanks to a complex subplot about getting his wife to the West for cancer treatment. Once the narrative gains momentum, it’s hard to put this one down. Agent: Jason Bartholomew, Hodder & Stoughton.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Veteran agent Joe "Foxy" Foulkes is partnered with young police officer Danny "Badger" Baxter to carry out a covert mission in the Middle East, a mission that can have no official sanction. For the two men, it's hate at first sight. They're charged with "removing" the Engineer, a dangerous bomb-maker in Iraq. At first, narrator Ralph Cosham's funereal tone is appropriate to the opening of the story. However, his reading remains dark and heavy, even as the tension mounts. The author's precise attention to detail and insights into characters' motives are extraordinary, yet as the complex plot intensifies, Cosham's matter-of-fact interpretation proves a curious choice, one likely to turn off all but the most serious devotees of spy stories. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

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