The Glory Boys - 1976

Summary
The target - Israel's leading nuclear scientist on a visit to London.

The assassins - An Arab terrorist, the only survivor of a three-man hit-squad ambushed by Israeli Intelligence in France but still an untried amateur, desperate to prove himself a killer. And McCoy, an IRA mercenary, who is to provide him with the weapons he needs and get him to get his target.

The tracker - A freelance working for British Intelligence. Jimmy is more lethal than any of them...but only when he's sober.

Extract
And they had seen him, twenty yards away, and there had been the rifle fire and the thrown grenade.
So they knew each other, understood the stake money.
When he looked away from the house Jimmy could see the SAS men making their preparations...

Reviews
"Not since Le Carre has the emergence of an international suspense writer been as stunning as that of Gerald Seymour" LOS ANGELES TIMES

"[With] Gerald Seymour's The Glory Boys we take a step from craftsmanship to artistry...Here a magic touch is exercised, and every character enters the scene full-fleshed and utterly plausible" NEW YORK TIMES

"A well written, fast-moving and infinitely superior thriller" DAILY MAIL