A Song in the Morning
by Gerald Seymour
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From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick Jeez Curwen, a British undercover agent in South Africa reporting on the African National Congress, has received the death penalty for his part in a job in which he should never have been involved. He is incarcerated in the maximum security jail outside Pretoria, awaiting execution. By the time his son Jack, abandoned by Jeez 25 years ago, discovers that the British government has washed show more its hands of his father's case, Jeez has only three weeks to live. But Jack, though young and untried, is determined to see the father he has never known, and to set him free. show lessTags
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Een boek uit 1986. Zuid-Afrika, apartheid, ANC - strijders, Britse geheimagent wordt aan zijn lot overgelaten in een zwaarbewaakte dodencel, zoon besluit hem te bevrijden. Moed der Wanhoop, heet het verhaal, en zo verloopt het ook. Wanhopig, veel parallelle verhaallijnen om de zaak aan mekaar te knopen. Toch spannend, op het einde werd het mij wat langdradig. Komt misschien ook wel door het wanhopige van de missie, zoiets kan niet slagen, of toch, of toch weer niet? Een vakantieboek.
Aug 12, 2009Dutch
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Gerald Seymour was born on November 25, 1941 in Guilford, Surrey, England. He received a BA Honors degree in Modern History from University College London. He was a broadcast journalist who covered many overseas conflicts including the Vietnam War, the Munich Olympics massacre, and Palestinian militant groups. His first book, Harry's Game, was show more published in 1975 and soon afterwards, he retired from journalism to become a full-time author. Many of his other books were adapted into television movies and Field of Blood was adapted as the feature film, The Informant, starring Timothy Dalton. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dedication
- to Gillian, Nicholas and James
- First words
- They were four.
They walked abreast, dodging the lunchtime crowd.
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