To The Last Page

Back in the old days... Why would Gerald Seymour want to go back now to the setting of his first major success as a writer, Harry's Game ? Things are very different in Northern Ireland in the years since the beginning of the peace-process. It's not like it was in the past. This however is precisely what Vagabond is about and it's cleverly set-up in the opening prologue, which takes a terrorist incident back in the bad old days in Co. Tyrone and looks at it through fresh, more politically accountable eyes. Things have changed, but not necessarily for the better, particularly when those issues now have to considered in a wider global, political and commercial context. For Seymour, it's a good opportunity to consider the relative morality of how we view military, terrorist and counter-terrorist actions then and now (specifically in the handling of agents, informers or 'touts' as they are better known), but typically, Seymour is now able to take a wider perspective