The Fighting Man - 1993

Summary
It was a fight he could not win, but could not afford to lose.

Thrown out of the SAS for insubordination, Gord Brown now lives in disillusioned exile on a failing salmon farm in the Scottish highlands.

Yet to the three Guatemalan Indians who track him down, he represents the last hope of freedom. They have come to recruit a fighting man to lead an uprising against the brutal military dictatorship which is killing their people.

Gord flies with them to Cuba, then on with a small band of men to a rough landing strip in the rain forest of Guatemala.

As the ragged army marches through the jungle and across the high mountains towards Guatemala City, a hopeless dream becomes a burning reality. But the forces pitted against them are formidable.

Extract
He could hear the shouting over the explosions and the shooting. The officers trying to gain control in confusion. He waited and he watched. He was fifty yards from the command building and seventy yards from the near corner of the dormitory building where the officers, in cover, were rallying frightened men. He wrenched the lever. The jet flew. Compressed petrol and oil arching forward. Gord pressed the ignition.
The fire swarmed forward.

Reviews
"It's time for Gerald Seymour to be recognised as ranking up there with Graham Greene" NEW YORK TIMES

"Unstoppable momentum" DAILY TELEGRAPH

"Moving and gripping. Seymour's characters 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