Scoundrel: The epic adventure thriller from the no.1 bestselling author of the Last Kingdom series - Softcover

Cornwell, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241955661 ISBN 13: 9780241955666

Publisher: Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

Paul Shanahan - part-time surveyor, erstwhile IRA arms dealer and sometime suspected CIA agent - is a full-time scoundrel. But he's the perfect man if you need an illicit operation done - and done well.

So when five million dollars' worth of gold smuggled out of occupied Kuwait needs to get from Morocco to Miami by boat with no questions asked, Paul Shanahan is the name on everyone's lips.

Except this time, Paul has other, more personal plans for the money. But first he must outwit the IRA, the CIA, British Intelligence and Palestinian terrorist Il Hayaween in order to prove how big a scoundrel he really is . . .

About this title

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.

About the Author:

Bernard Cornwell, bestselling author of the Warlord Chronicles and the Sharpe series, is married and lives in Cape Cod, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0241955661
• ISBN 13: 9780241955666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320