Matthew Reilly · 2003 · thriller

Matthew Reilly's 2003 thriller. A cabal of billionaires posts an $18.6 million bounty on fifteen of the world's finest soldiers - and Marine captain Shane Schofield is at the top of the list. Ambushed in Siberia, he is hurled into a headlong global chase - to Afghanistan, the Suez Canal and a castle on the coast of France - with every bounty hunter alive on his trail.

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   Siberia

   Leading a raid on a Siberian missile silo, Marine captain Shane Schofield realizes too late it is a trap - his name sits atop a list of fifteen warriors marked for death, and every bounty hunter on earth wants his head.

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   Afghanistan

   Fleeing in a stolen plane, Scarecrow races to the Afghan border, where his love Libby Gant leads a mission of her own - and where the hunters close in, willing to take her to lure him into the open.

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   Suez Canal

   The chase erupts into a lightning battle over the Suez Canal as Scarecrow, aided by the enigmatic bounty hunter known as the Black Knight, fights to stay alive and unravel the conspiracy behind the greatest manhunt in history.

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   France

   The trail ends at the Forteresse de Valois on France's Atlantic coast, the castle where the severed heads are to be delivered - and where Scarecrow must confront the men who mean to trigger a war and remake the world.