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.
