Bostonian Paul Shanahan is many things: part-time marine surveyor, smuggler, gunrunner, suspected CIA agent . . . and a full-time scoundrel with ties to nothing and no one except an ex-lover who died years before in a hail of bullets. Now he’ s agreed to transport $5 million in gold across the ocean by sailboat, money earmarked by the Irish Republican Army for the purchase of fifty-three Stinger missiles. Shanahan’ s instincts are telling him there’ s more to this deal below the surface and that he’ s not meant to survive after delivery. But if he can elude British Intelligence, several terrorist organizations, and their most efficient killers— and with only his life left to lose— $5 million might just be enough to get a desperate rogue out of the game for good.
