Scoundrel

<p>A gifted storyteller and orchestrator of suspense.<br />--<em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em></p><p>Bernard Cornwell is to the yachting adventure novel what ex-jockey Dick Francis is to the racetrack thriller.<br />--<em>Orlando Sentinel</em></p><p>The <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Fort</em> the Saxon Tales and the immensely popular Richard Sharpe novels Bernard Cornwell has been called perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today (<em>Washington Post</em>). He demonstrates another side of his extraordinary storytelling talents with <em>Scoundrel</em> 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 <em>Scoundrel</em> is a masterful thriller in the Tom Clancy vein--a masterwork of suspense from one of today's most versatile and accomplished popular novelists.<br /></p>