# Crackdown

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- Book: [Crackdown](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-cornwell/crackdown) ([Crackdown.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-cornwell/crackdown.md))
- Authors: [Bernard Cornwell](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-cornwell)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4192-922-4
- Published: 2006-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The dreams of an idle life in the paradise of the Bahamas are shattered when the discovery of a derelict, bullet-ridden yacht brings in the local police and the drug-runners. Nick Breakspear, desperate to escape his famous parentage, invalided out of the Marines, was heading only for peace, but the quixotic impulse makes him take up a challenge - and a lucrative offer - and he allows himself to be hired, for a private war, by a smooth-talking US presidential candidate. And it is the skills drawn from his depised father's world that will enable him to survive.