### From Publishers Weekly The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely capable assassin who only targets bad guys, is in a Paris tunnel ready to make a hit. He causes a speeding black Merce
The accident man: a novel
โ Scribed by Tom Cain
- Publisher
- Transworld;Penguin Canada
- Year
- 2007;2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 014317648X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Product Description
Meet the Accident Man, Samuel CarverCarver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Drug-barons helicopter develops mechanical failure mid-flight: Samuel Carver. Terrorist blown-up in his own bomb factory: Samuel Carver. Ex-SAS, now freelance mercenary he is the frontline weapon of the Consortium', a black-ops British government outfit, or is it?Carver is called to do a hit at very short notice. Do this job for us and be paid very well. Refuse and you better run and hide. He believes the target to be a high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to organise a car crash in a Paris underpass. But Carver is being set up. When he discovers the real identity of his target, and more importantly the identity of the targets female companion, he knows one thing his life is over. This is a secret too big to let him live, unless he can track down the real villains before they get to him.Combining the plotting of Robert Ludlum, with the pace and tension of Frederick Forsyth, Tom Cain is a major new thriller writer and The Accident Man is a classic in the making and launches Samuel Carver straight into the top rank of action heroes.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 0552155357
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