Scarecrow - Hardcover
As 'Scarecrow' Schofield watches his mission to take out a secret missile dump in Siberia turn into a bloodbath, he discovers he has been tricked and is now the prey rather than the predator. An international consortium of staggering power and wealth has included his name on a mystery list of fifteen targets to be eliminated without fail by twelve noon on 31 December.
Now every high-powered bounty hunter on the planet is on his trail. While Schofield battles to evade them on every side, he must simultaneously track down the perpetrators of a conspiracy that could soon reduce many of the major cities of the world to ashes. And behind that lies a secret agenda even more terrifying ...
From arctic Russia to the Afghan border, from France's Atlantic coast to a speed-of-light conflict over the Suez Canal, every form of ultra-tech weaponry comes into play in a spellbinding action drama that unfolds within a mere twenty-four hours.
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With Scarecrow Matthew Reilly goes further than ever before into the supercharged adrenalin, high-testosterone thrillers that have become his trademark. His heroes constantly strain plausibility with their feats of stunt-driving and snappy shooting; with their hair-breadth escapes and entire ruthlessness. His series hero, "Scarecrow" Schofield finds himself on a list of the bravest soldiers and most wanted terrorists on the planet, pursued by mercenaries and bounty hunters who want nothing but to take his head. This is a book full of outrageous conspiracies and a villain with a taste for microwaving his victims, boiling them in oil and throwing them to the sharks. It's a fairground ride of a thriller that zips along at a cracking pace from the icy coasts of Siberia to the caves of Afghanistan, the glass towers of London's Dockland and the treacherously hairpin roads of the Brittany coast. Reilly builds constantly--this is a book whose tension and action sequences escalate well past the point normally called over the top. This is a book full of ingenious ultra-violence in which everyone is at risk--Reilly is a gaudy writer but never a stupid one or one who fails to follow through his own plot logic. --Roz Kaveney
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...there's pace, jargon, diagrams, gadgets and guns to get excited about... Scarecrow is breathless, visual... -- Mirror, October 2003
The pace is breakneck... will hook you right from the start... -- Waterstone's Books Quarterly, September 2003
This is unashamedly ball-busting reading... it certainly clears the palette... -- Arena, October 2003
The pace is breakneck... will hook you right from the start... -- Waterstone's Books Quarterly, September 2003
This is unashamedly ball-busting reading... it certainly clears the palette... -- Arena, October 2003
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- PublisherPan Australia
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0732911168
- ISBN 13 9780732911164
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages462
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not a n Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. There are 15 targets, the finest warriors in the world - commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each. Among the names on the target list, one stands out. An enigmatic Marine. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000007762
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 800 g.; X, 464 pages, last page blank, then six pages following (last two pages blank) further books from author. Map illustrated endpapers. Black coloured boards with white titles to the backstrip. Browning of the text block edges and to the internal text. Colour illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound) with silver and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. In this novel the authors' character Shane Schofield is one of 15 targets, of the world's finest warriors, who are slated to be killed by 12 noon. He has to protect himself and other targets and to find out the reason why. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0732911168. ISBN/EAN: 9780732911164. Inventory No: 0277651. Seller Inventory # 0277651
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 463 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Macmillan, Australia, 2003. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have moderate bumping, superficial wear and minor chips and/or tears. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: FIFTEEN NAMES - There are 15 targets, the finest warriors in the world - commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each. ONE HERO - Among the names on the target list, one stands out. A Marine named Shane Schofield, call-sign: Scarecrow. NO LIMITS - And so Schofield is plunged into a headlong race around the world, pursued by a fearsome collection of international bounty hunters - including the "Black Knight", a notoriously ruthless hunter who seems intent on eliminating only Schofield. The race is on and the pace is frantic as Schofield fights for survival; in the process unveiling a vast international conspiracy and the terrible reason why he cannot, under any circumstances, be allowed to live. He led his men into hell in ICE STATION. He protected the President against all odds in AREA 7. This time it's different. Because this time he is the target. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Action & Adventure; ISBN: 0732911168. ISBN/EAN: 9780732911164. Inventory No: 24040158. Seller Inventory # 24040158
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