Product Description

Stephen Coonts returns with a brand new thriller and a whole new kind of hero... 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. Carmellini is sent to guard a remote farmhouse where a star KGB defector is being debriefed. But when he gets there, a ruthless team of commandos are slaughtering everyone in sight...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64570 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 416 pages

Matthew Lewin, THE GUARDIAN, 2 October
"Coonts regularly pulls off one of the triciest feats of thriller writing -- combining convincing action, drama and high tension with humour, but without descending to a flippant disregard for human life and morality."

About the Author
Stephen Coonts is a veteran naval aviator who flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. His previous novels have been worldwide bestsellers. A former attorney, he resides with his wife and son in Maryland.

Customer Reviews

A winning formula...
This is well written thriller that really delivers to goods in true Stephen Coont's fashion. The author has a clear understanding of what the discerning reader want's. Liars & Thieves has; Action - Suspense - and truly believable charactors. While writing this review, I would also like to recommend, 'The Constantine Legacy' by Andrew Towning.

Excellent read
A well-written action thriller that really delivers the goods. The author has a clear grasp of what works in books like this, and provides it in a gripping, edge-of-the-seat novel that keeps you guessing right up to the end. Highly recommended.

"Winning formula for Mr Coonts ..."
At a time when retro is cool, Stephen Coonts slips smoothly into a Chandleresque style and comes up with a winner. Pity that the Brit publishers had to change the killer title "Liars and Thieves" to the lame "Wages of Sin"! Or was that to appease the UK politicos?