Wages of Sin

Wages of Sin

by StephenCoonts (Author)

Synopsis

Tommy Carmellini was the best burglar in the business. He was so good that most of his victims took weeks to find out they'd been robbed. But even the best slip up and they got him in the end. But then Tommy was given a choice. Go to prison or work for the CIA? State penitentiary or Langley? No choice at all, and now he must use his unique talents in a desperate search for information and - ultimately - power...In WAGES OF SIN, Tommy's sent to guard a farmhouse in Virginia's remote Blue Ridge Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the agency has ever pulled. Tommy arrives to find the guards shot dead, and a ruthless team of US commandos slaughtering everyone in sight, then setting the house alight. Tommy escapes amid a hail of bullets with what appears to be the sole survivor, a beautiful translator who steals his car and leaves him for dead at the first opportunity. What secrets did the defector know? Who would have killed to prevent him talking? Smart money says someone in the US government is behind the massacre and is now after Tommy.And that begs the biggest question of all: in a world where nothing is as it seems and no one is who he pretends to be, who can Tommy trust? Finding out will be frightening. The answer may be deadly...

$3.25

Save:$13.03 (80%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Publisher: Orion
Published: 16 Aug 2004

ISBN 10: 0752846299
ISBN 13: 9780752846293
Book Overview: Both SAUCER and LIBERTY have reaffirmed that Stephen Coonts is growing faster than any other adventure writer. Both have been bestsellers. Tommy Carmellini is a younger and sexier character, giving Coonts' novels a younger and more cocksure feel. With every novel Steve is tackling larger and larger themes and doesn't shrink from topicality. He is rapidly establishing himself as a thoughtful as well as an action-packed writer. 'Mr Coonts knows how to write and build suspense. His dialogue is realistic, the storyline mesmeric. That is the mark of a natural storyteller.' New York Times LIBERTY got to number 12 in the Sunday Times bestseller list. WAGES OF SIN will see him in the top ten.

Media Reviews
Coonts regularly pulls off one of the triciest feats of thriller writing -- combining convincing action, drama and high tension with humour, but without descending to a flippant disregard for human life and morality. -- Matthew Lewin THE GUARDIAN, 2 October
Author Bio
Stephen Coonts is a former naval aviator who flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. All of his ten previous novels have been worldwide bestsellers. A former attorney, he resides with his wife and son in Las Vegas, Nevada.