The Sailing Thrillers · Book 5
Scoundrel
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 326
- ISBN-13
- 9780062082381
- Type
- novel
About this book
Scoundrel closes out the Sailing Thrillers in 1992, trading the nautical setting for Washington D.C. politics and an arms-dealing conspiracy -- the outlier of the five, though it keeps the same tightly-plotted thriller structure. At 326 pages, it's the shortest entry, published the year before Cornwell's Sharpe novels took over his career.
Its place in The Sailing Thrillers
Scoundrel is book 5 in the The Sailing Thrillers series. It follows Stormchild. See the full The Sailing Thrillers reading order.
Before Bernard Cornwell became synonymous with Napoleonic-era and Dark Age historical fiction, he wrote five contemporary thrillers built around his own lifelong passion for sailing. Each novel is a self-contained story with a different protagonist, but together they share a template: ordinary people — sailors, ex-soldiers, journalists — pulled into smuggling rings, fraud, political conspiracy, or violent revenge plots that play out largely on and around small boats, English coastal waters, and the sailing world…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062082381