In At The Kill (Jonas Merrick series)

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I found the first 100 pp fairly slow going but the pace picked up very quickly after that and the last quarter or so of this novel is as tense and exciting as any of Seymour’s previous works. This is the third book in this excellent series featuring the totally believable and ever so endearing Jonas Merrick. My thanks to the Author publisher's and NetGalley for providing me with a Kindle version of this book to read and honestly review.

Character driven clever descriptive imaginative and intelligent, and totally engaging from first to last page, with the tension building with every turn of the page. In the 3rd book in the series he is tasked in regards to an OCG (organised crime group) a sleepy backwater of SIS, out of sight and out of mind scenario.The players were well written and interesting, the plot intrigued and I should have loved it but I didn't. Also, if the characters were suppose to be bad, then where was the terrible violence that crime families would inflict.

I appreciate that Gerald Seymour books are all about the gradual build up of tension but this was pedestrian and the pay-off not worth the wait. Another outstanding and hugely satisfying instalment in the Jonas Merrick series from Gerald Seymour. Initially a journalist, he joined ITN in 1963, covering such topics as the Great Train Robbery, Vietnam, Ireland, the Munich Olympics massacre, Germany's Red Army, Italy's Red Brigades and Palestinian militant groups. The set up is deftly drawn (drugs shipment due to land in Spain), the characters established early on but then not much happens for a very long time.Contrary to what we might infer from watching Line of Duty, this area of work is considered a bit oif a backwater by everyone in the intelligence community.