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Scoundrel (1992)

door Bernard Cornwell

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"A gifted storyteller and orchestrator of suspense." --Philadelphia Inquirer "Bernard Cornwell is to the yachting adventure novel what ex-jockey Dick Francis is to the racetrack thriller." --Orlando Sentinel The New York Times bestselling author of The Fort, the Saxon Tales, and the immensely popular Richard Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell has been called, "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today" (Washington Post). He demonstrates another side of his extraordinary storytelling talents with Scoundrel, a contemporary tale of excitement and danger on high and treacherous seas. A gripping tale of an outlaw yacht captain who decides to cross the Irish Republican Army for a $5 million payday only to find himself pursued by intelligence agents, terrorists, and killers across perilous open waters, Scoundrel is a masterful thriller in the Tom Clancy vein--a masterwork of suspense from one of today's most versatile and accomplished popular novelists.… (meer)

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I didn't take to this book very well at first, it seemed a bit too slow and detailed for the first 50 or so pages.

I took about a year to get through the start, but when it kicked in, the plot was compelling and intriguiing - well worth reading.

It's outside his normal genre (medieval type action thrillers, this a psychological spy thriller), but really got my attention.

Very good attention to the nautical details, and the dark world of espionage. (

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Nick-Myra | Mar 20, 2023 |

Scoundrel, by Bernard Cornwell

As part of my continuing experiment with Scribd’s ebook subscription service, I stumbled upon Scoundrel, by one of my favorite authors, Bernard Cornwell. I know him from his great historical fiction - some of my favorites are the Saxon Chronicles, his novel about Agincourt and the Thomas of Hookton Archer series. Who knew he’d written sailing novels?

Scoundrel, by Bernard Cornwell

Bostonian Paul Shanahan is a smuggler, an arms dealer, a suspected CIA agent, and a sailor. Now he’s agreed to haul $5M in gold across the ocean in a sailboat to help the IRA….Scoundrel is a kind of Patriot Games with Sailboats. Good fun. If you’re looking for a good airplane book, this’ll do the trick.

The first real “discovery” I had using Scribd, it found this book for me, and I thought I was aware of every book in Cornwell’s resume. While it’s nothing like as serious as his other works, it was good fun all the same. (

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viking2917 | Dec 23, 2015 |

A top notch thriller by a master of every genre he writes in. Shanahan starts out as a simple boat surveyor/ deliverer in Belgium but as the pages turn so does the plot. Layers are peeled back that slowly reveal Shanahan as more and more and even more than what he seemed. Simple remote tragedy becomes personal and cutting. The tragedy of misery that produces terrorists stands out starkly. (

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WhitmelB | Jun 11, 2014 |

Thoroughly enjoyed this book -- riveting and with unexpected turns around every corner. The book has a true hero/anti-hero which makes it quite complex. It's dated around the time of the first Iraq War, right before 9/11, and knowing what''s to come makes it quite believable. Well worth the reading time. (

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NellieMc | Aug 14, 2012 |

I find this book tremendously interesting to this day. Cornwell is well known for his Irish characters who have great depth throughout the Sharpe series. This book, in which the main character is an Irish-American former supporter of the Provisional IRA is an intriguing twist. Cronwell builds on his own experience of Belfast during the 1970s. The plot with linkages between the PIRA, Irish-America and Palestinian terrorists is intriguing and the book was banned for some years in the US. I would recommend this thriller highly to Irish and Irish-American readers for the plausible ideas postulated. (

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"A gifted storyteller and orchestrator of suspense." --Philadelphia Inquirer "Bernard Cornwell is to the yachting adventure novel what ex-jockey Dick Francis is to the racetrack thriller." --Orlando Sentinel The New York Times bestselling author of The Fort, the Saxon Tales, and the immensely popular Richard Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell has been called, "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today" (Washington Post). He demonstrates another side of his extraordinary storytelling talents with Scoundrel, a contemporary tale of excitement and danger on high and treacherous seas. A gripping tale of an outlaw yacht captain who decides to cross the Irish Republican Army for a $5 million payday only to find himself pursued by intelligence agents, terrorists, and killers across perilous open waters, Scoundrel is a masterful thriller in the Tom Clancy vein--a masterwork of suspense from one of today's most versatile and accomplished popular novelists.

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