Scoundrel - Softcover

Cornwell, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140177264 ISBN 13: 9780140177268

Publisher: Penguin, 1993

Synopsis

Paul Shanahan, the owner of a yacht delivery business in Belgium, now lives a peaceful existence after a terrorist-active life. An old colleague's request for the secret transport of a large amount of gold is a welcome return to the fold, and a chance to get home to Boston. But it turns out to be the trickiest and deadliest business of all - haunted always by the betrayal of his lover.

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From the Back Cover:

Bostonian Paul Shanahan is many things: part-time marine surveyor, smuggler, gunrunner, suspected CIA agent . . . and a full-time scoundrel with ties to nothing and no one except an ex-lover who died years before in a hail of bullets. Now he's agreed to transport $5 million 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, several terrorist organizations, and their 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.

Synopsis:

Paul Shanahan, the owner of a yacht delivery business in Belgium, now lives a peaceful existence after a terrorist-active life. An old colleague's request for the secret transport of a large amount of gold is a welcome return to the fold - but it turns out to be a deadly business.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140177264
• ISBN 13: 9780140177268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320