The Fighting Man (Ultimate Collection) - Softcover

Gerald Seymour

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444760270 ISBN 13: 9781444760279

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2013

Synopsis

Thrown out of the SAS for insubordination, Gord Brown spends his dreary, uneventful days on a remote salmon farm in Scotland. Everything changes when he is approached by three Guatemalan Indians, who are desperately searching for a fighting man, someone to mastermind an uprising against the brutal military dictatorship who have massacred so many of their people. Suddenly his life has a purpose once again.

The four men land in Cuba and fly across into the jungles of Guatemala, where they rapidly assemble a guerilla army. But as they approach the capital city, the goverment becomes increasingly threatened by their presence and is determined to annihilate them at all costs...

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Review:

An exciting novel that is full of inside knowledge... It's time for Gerald Seymour to be recognised as ranking right up there with Graham Greene (New York Times)

Unstoppable momentum (Daily Telegraph)

Moving and gripping. Seymour's chacter are all beautifully drawn. The dialogue is so real you can hear it and the plot is as tight as a drum. It is tempting to say that Seymour is at the height of his powers... He just gets better and better (Today)

From the Back Cover:

'The Fighting Man' follows the fortunes of a small group of political exiles as they attempt to overthrow the brutal and repressive regime in their native Guatemala. Idealists, not warriors, they require the services of a fighting man to direct their enterprise. Their search brings them to Gordon Benjamin Brown, a military misfit whose career has ended in disgrace; and under his leadership their makeshift army marches on Guatemala City, growing in numbers along the way. At first their progress seems unstoppable, but as events move towards a gripping climax it becomes clear that the Guatemalan army is not the only enemy that they have to overcome; other agencies are working to destroy them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1444760270
• ISBN 13: 9781444760279
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432