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voor de liefhebbers van submarine audiobooks :)

General Information
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 Title:                  Scarecrow
 Author:                 Matthew Reilly
 Read By:                Sean Mangan
 Copyright:              2003
 Audiobook Copyright:    2004
 Genre:                  Audiobooks
 Publisher:              Bolinda Audio
 Series Name:            Shane Schofield
 Position in Series:     3
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Source:                 1 mp3 cd
 Condition:              Very Good

File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         27
 Total Duration:         12:48:40
 Total MP3 Size:         528.07
 Parity Archive:         No
 Ripped With:            blindwrite
 Encoded At:             CBR 96 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3

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 Posting Plan:           Taged for ipod

Book Description
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As well as Schofield, Mother, Gant and Book II all return from previous Schofield adventures.

A gruesome USD $18.6 million per head bounty hunt is on for 15 targets across the world - all either intelligence officers, military personnel or terrorists. The bounty will be paid upon production of the decapitated head of each target to a castle in France. One of them is Shane Schofield (callsign "Scarecrow") our all-action hero. Schofield is leading a special forces team on a mission in Siberia, to reinforce a Delta Force team. 
Delta had been sent to quell some terrorists, and is led by two of those whose names are on the hitlist.

Arriving on the scene, Schofield proceeds with the mission, splitting his team into two groups. They are subsequently ambushed and a bloody battle against mercenaries ensues. One of the groups is decimated but, sensing a trap moments before the first shot, Schofield manages to remain unharmed, eventually ending the fight with the destruction of the Gulag facility by a missile launched from an abandoned Typhoon class submarine. 
Schofield and his NCO Book II escape by hijacking a fighter jet owned by a bounty hunter who has already arrived at the scene.

Schofield gains an unlikely ally in the "Black Knight", a bounty hunter being paid to keep Schofield alive rather than kill him, and their alliance takes them worldwide from Afghanistan to France in a desperate race to stay alive. Crucially, Knight's orders are to allow Schofield free rein, in order that he perform the tasks the bounty hunt is designed to prevent him from doing.

At the heart of the conspiracy are the twelve most powerful businessmen in the world; self-styled puppeteers manipulating the course of governments calling themselves the Majestic-12 (or M-12 for short). Member No. 12, Jonathan James Killian controls the Axon Corporation, a defence contractor of the United States commissioned to construct the sinister 'Chameleon' 
project, a series of nuclear warheads and missiles designed to imitate the weapons of another nuclear power. As an Israeli Mossad agent describes them, "they're designed to start wars ... but to make it look like someone else fired the first shot". The missiles are launched from ships belonging to the 'Kormoran' project: battleships disguised as ordinary cargo vessels. 
The intention is to begin a 50 year Cold War that would earn the companies within M-12 billions.

The Chameleon series of missiles is protected by the CincLock-VII security system which can only arm or disarm the missiles if three criteria are met: proximity to warhead must be within 60 feet), a light-pattern reflex response test and a numerical code. It is the light-pattern reflex test that is the crux of CincLock-VII - only someone who knows the sequence of flashing lights by heart or with unusually fast reflexes will be able to disarm the system...

Thanks to Nobby & Chief Twidgit :)