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The Outsiders

by Gerald Seymour
Gildart Jackson
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MI5 officer Winnie Monks has never forgotten the death of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army Major turned gangster. Now, 10 years later, she learns that the Major is travelling to a villa on the popular Spanish holiday destination Costa del Sol, and she asks permission to send in a surveillance unit. They find an empty property near the Major's. It's a perfect base for Winnie's darker, less official, plans. But it turns out the villa isn't deserted. The owners have invited a young British couple to house sit while they are away. Jonno and Posie, a new couple, think they are embarking on a romantic, carefree break in the sun. But when the Secret Service team arrives in paradise, everything changes.

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    April 7, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9781666599435
      • File size: 451142 KB
      • Duration: 15:39:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Rather than Seymour's usual spy story, this thriller is about revenge. In delivering it, narrator Gildart Jackson employs an unusual English accent--part Cockney, part cultured British. A group of former and current MI5 members, once called the "graveyard team," are out to avenge the brutal death of one of their young colleagues 10 years earlier. The villain is a former Russian army major--now part of that country's mafia. Though the main plot is different, listeners will recognize several typical Seymour subplots. Jackson's multifaceted performance makes the overly long story more palatable. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 22, 2014
      MI5’s Winnie Monks, the protagonist of this joyless, repetitive thriller from Seymour (The Dealer and the Dead), reassembles her scattered Graveyard Team of organized crime investigators to avenge the murder of young agent Damian Fenby five years earlier in Budapest. An unexpected break finally identifies the killer as veteran Russian crime boss Petar Alexander Borsonov, and when Monks learns he is going to visit the home of fellow Russian Pavel Ivanov on Spain’s Costa del Sol, she sets in motion a plan to take Borsonov down. Complications abound: Monk’s advance team finds house-sitting young Brits in the supposedly empty house next door that other team members intended to use, an aging British con man gets involved with Ivanov, and Monk’s chosen sniper suffers from debilitating PTSD. Seymour takes his time developing the major players with small, seemingly inconsequential incidents morphing into major developments. In the end, fickle fate holds the winning cards. Agent: Jonathan Lloyd, Curtis Brown (U.K.).

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