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From the incomparable New York Times bestselling master of gripping adventure, Bernard Cornwell, comes a relentlessly suspenseful contemporary thriller set in the lethal world of international terror.
Bostonian Paul Shanahan is many things: part-time marine surveyor, smuggler, gunrunner, suspected CIA agent. A full-time scoundrel with ties to nothing and no one -- except to an ex-lover who died years before in a hail of bullets -- he has agreed to transport five million dollars in gold across the ocean by sailboat, money earmarked by the Irish Republican Army for the purchase of fifty-three Stinger missiles. Shanahan's instincts are telling him there's more to this deal below the surface and that he's not meant to survive after delivery. But, if he can elude British Intelligence and several terrorist organizations' most efficient killers -- and with only his life left to lose -- $5 million might just be enough to get a desperate rogue out of the game for good.
Bernard Cornwell is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling Saxon novels, including The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman; the Richard Sharpe novels; the Grail Quest series; the Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles; the Warlord Trilogy; and many other novels, including Stonehenge and Gallows Thief. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod.
Scoundrel,Bernard Cornwell,HarperTorch,0060748664,Action & Adventure,Fiction,Fiction - Men's Adventure,General,War & Military,Fiction / General
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