by StephenCoonts (Author)
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 dead, and a team of US commandos slaughtering everyone in sight, then setting the house alight. Tommy escapes with what appears to be the sole survivor, a beautiful translator who steals his car and leaves him for dead. 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. In a world where nothing is as it seems and no one is who he pretends to be, who can Tommy trust? The answer may be deadly...
Format: Perfect Paperback
Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published: 01 Jan 2004
ISBN 10: 0752846302
ISBN 13: 9780752846309
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. 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. 'Stephen Coonts, like Jake Grafton, just keeps getting better.' TOM CLANCY 'Crammed with action and suspense.' USA TODAY '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