A Song in the Morning

Jeez Curwen, a British undercover agent in South Africa reporting on the African National Congress, has received the death penalty for his part in a job in which he should never have been involved. He is incarcerated in the maximum security jail outside Pretoria, awaiting execution.

By the time his son Jack, abandoned by Jeez 25 years ago, discovers that the British government has washed its hands of his father's case, Jeez has only three weeks to live.

But Jack, though young and untried, is determined to see the father he has never known, and to set him free.

“Keeps the suspense going right to the very end... Very exciting. - The Times Enthralling... Very Exciting. - Daily Mail Exciting and entertaining. - Sunday Express A marvellous thriller. There is not a slack moment in the action. With consummate skill, [Seymour] keeps the reader on his toes right to the last breathless page. - Sunday Telegraph”

Keeps the suspense going right to the very end... Very exciting. - The Times

Enthralling... Very Exciting. - Daily Mail

Exciting and entertaining. - Sunday Express

A marvellous thriller. There is not a slack moment in the action. With consummate skill, [Seymour] keeps the reader on his toes right to the last breathless page. - Sunday Telegraph

Gerald Seymour was a reporter at ITN for 15 years. He covered events in Vietnam, Borneo, Aden, the Munich Olympics, Israel and Northern Ireland. He has been a full-time writer since 1978. Gerald Seymour exploded onto the literary scene in 1978 with the massive bestseller HARRY'S GAME. The first major thriller to tackle the modern troubles in Northern Ireland, it was described by Frederick Forsyth as 'like nothing else I have ever read' and it changed the landscape of the British thriller forever.

Jeez Curwen, a British undercover agent in South Africa reporting on the African National Congress, has received the death penalty for his part in a job in which he should never have been involved. He is incarcerated in the maximum security jail outside Pretoria, awaiting execution. By the time his son Jack, abandoned by Jeez 25 years ago, discovers that the British government has washed its hands of his father's case, Jeez has only three weeks to live.But Jack, though young and untried, is determined to see the father he has never known, and to set him free.

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