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Harry Brown had done undercover work for the army before, of course. During the Aden emergency he had been sent into Sheik Othman district disguised as an Arab trader, and had won an MC for his pains. But her was something differentA British cabinet-ranking minister is gunned down by an IRA assassin, and neither the police hunt that followed nor any of the normal "sources" had led anywhere. Now the Prime Minister himself was ordering a special agent to be sent into the dangerous world of the gunman across the Irish Sea. And Harry was their choice.In a race against time Harry is left to locate the assassin before he himself is liquidated - a dangerous kind of game, but one which Harry soon came to understand.These are the words that introduced Gerald Seymour's Harry's Game on its first publication in 1975. Very few thrillers deserve to be called classics of our literature, but this one has undoubtedly earned the accolade. A novel that launched a great bestselling career, Harry's Game is by any standards a superb achievement and it will be read for many, many years to come.