Scoundrel - Softcover

Cornwell, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060748664 ISBN 13: 9780060748661

Publisher: Harper Torch, 2004

Synopsis

Part-time smuggler, arms dealer, marine surveyor, and suspected intelligence operative, American mercenary Paul Shanahan matches wits with the IRA, CIA, British Intelligence, and Palestinian terrorists when he agrees to transport five million dollars in gold--a fortune supposedly to be used for the purchase of Stinger missiles--across the ocean. Original.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

BERNARD CORNWELL is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series, which includes The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, Sword Song, The Burning Land, Death of Kings, The Pagan Lord, and, most recently, The Empty Throne and Warriors of the Storm, and which serves as the basis for the hit television series The Last Kingdom. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod and in Charleston, South Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Torch
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060748664
• ISBN 13: 9780060748661
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 326