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  • The Crocodile Hunter

  • By: Gerald Seymour
  • Narrated by: Ben Allen
  • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (212 ratings)

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The Crocodile Hunter

By: Gerald Seymour
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Summary

A thrilling story of the secret services, their enemies and the society they operate in, building with unrelenting suspense to a superb climax, The Crocodile Hunter is Gerald Seymour writing at the top of his powers.

In the office at MI5 where he works, they call Jonas Merrick 'the eternal flame'. It isn't a compliment. It's because he never goes out. He never goes undercover, never does surveillance, never goes with the teams that kick down the doors or seize the suspects off the street. He commutes into work and sits at his desk and then he goes home. But Jonas has qualities the hot-shots fail to notice: a steely concentration, a ruthless ability to focus and find the enemy hiding in plain sight.

Hearing of a British Jihadi returning from Syria with murderous plans, Jonas sends out for a telling photograph: a crocodile, almost submerged, just its eyes above water as it waits for unsuspecting prey to drink at the riverbank. Coming ashore near Dover, Cameron Jilkes is a young man from a broken home and a failed education, trained in the harshest theatre of war, driven to rage by loss and pain. And this time, 'the eternal flame' must go out - to hunt the crocodile himself.

©2021 Gerald Seymour (P)2020 W F Howes

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The production of the audio book was poor. It was difficult to distinguish breaks between scenes in the storyline

The lack of proper chaptering let the production down. The story did waffle on too much.

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slow simple story

This book has a fairly simple story with no twists, a monotone narration added to the dull drawn out story which drowned itself in everyday detail

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Brilliant

Great narration and as always brilliant Gerald Seymour. I’m only sorry The Crocodile Hunter had to end.

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Great read with one caveat

My first dip into Seymour and it has whetted my appetite for more. Some authentic dips into the world of counter-espionage and counter-terrorism (believe me!) but despite a hugely enjoyable read I found little evidence on which to arrest the T. The links with the smuggled weapon are tenuous and almost implied. When the target is not known either, reality needs to be suspended. However, a well-written, compelling novel and an excellent narrator.

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An excellent and gripping story.

This has been an excellent and gripping story, very well narrated and highly plausible. I was, quite frankly, unable to leave it until I’d finished! Excellent.

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Outstanding

Brilliant thought out novel from start to finish the last chapter was superbly done and the narration delivered it well
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Gripping

Excellent, gripping and very well narrated .
Good characters and sympathetic explanations of the route to evil
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Excellent - compulsive listening

Once started I found it very difficult to stop. Let's just say I didn't get much sleep. Gerald Seymour has such a fantastic style of writing that there are no heroes and villians and only at the very latest moment are your sympathies manipulated to support the forces of law and order and only because you want the most unlikely person to succeed which you know will antagonise both the malfunctioning forces of the state and the supporters of the anti-hero,
As always with a Gerald Seymour novel the characters are believable, and the so called forces of the state are demonstrated to being only slightly ahead in the ever present pressure to protect us from the next calamity a few face-less anonymous group of individuals are planning to carry out.

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Gripping

The understated hero is the delight of British understatement and offering an alternative view of heroism. Curious grammar in the writing but it seemed to work.

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a change to the usual hero tale

A story that could be all too true of todays troubled times. The story has a human angle that gives an insight into what could motivate individuals.

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