- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Terrorism, Smuggling
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.
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Classical in form, grave, relentless and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Bernard Cornwell
- First published
- May 1993
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Penguin Group UK, Soundings, Michael Joseph
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241955666
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“AUGUST 1, 1990 WAS MY FORTIETH BIRTHDAY.”
Bernard Cornwell (born February 23, 1944) is an English author of historical novels, known for his meticulous research and engaging storytelling. Born in London, England, to a Canadian airman father and a mother in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, he was adopted by a family in Essex belonging to the Peculiar People sect. Cornwell attended London University and worked as a teacher before joining the BBC, where he spent a decade, eventually becoming Head of Current Affairs in Northern Ireland. Bernard Cornwell is renowned for his long-running series of novels, including the *Sharpe* series about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe, the *Saxon Stories* (also known as *The Last Kingdom* seri
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