{"product_id":"9781529340440-foot-soldiers","title":"The Foot Soldiers","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Sunday Times Thriller of the Month\u003cbr\u003eThe first-ever returning central character in Seymour's storied career - Jonas Merrick, MI5's grumpy old man from \u003ci\u003eThe Crocodile Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e, must find a mole in MI6 and thwart a Russian assassination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[A] masterly novel' - \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Strong echoes of George Smiley' - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A novel of real quality. Top brass' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times Thriller of the Month\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeware of Russians bearing gifts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefectors are not always welcome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs the information they bring worth the cost of protecting them for the rest of their lives? Is it even genuine? Might they be double agents? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are some of the questions facing MI6 when a Russian agent hands himself in to them in Denmark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a team begins to assess his value, his former employers in the Kremlin develop a brutal plan to show that no defector will ever be safe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd they know where to find him. Which means there must be a mole in MI6.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo it is that the cavaliers of Six find themselves being interrogated by nondescript Jonas Merrick of Five - the man called back from retirement and his beloved caravan, the man the young guns call the Eternal Flame because 'he never goes out.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut while he may be grey, Jonas is also ruthless. As he quietly works through the suspects in London, and violent mayhem breaks out in Denmark, Jonas plans not just to unmask a traitor, but to hit back at the Russians with deadly force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst encountered in \u003ci\u003eThe Crocodile Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonas Merrick is set to become one of the great figures of modern spy fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReaders love \u003ci\u003eTHE FOOT SOLDIERS\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eI was completely gripped by the plot and interdepartmental jealousies and rivalries. I couldn't put it down!'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e book that fans of the George Smiley series will love' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e brilliant, suspenseful and contemporary thriller . A wonderfully complex and unputdownable tale of defectors, traitors, internal politics . and assassination'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Seymour continues to carry the flame for the espionage genre, and his sublime creation, Jonas Merrick, a 21st-century George Smiley . is slowly but surely becoming a classic literary creation'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40944648061025,"sku":"9781529340440","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39607538_2d39fdbe-3859-464e-92aa-7af3fab85d6b.jpg?v=1769101291","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529340440-foot-soldiers","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}