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Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves is an action thriller novel released on 12 October 2011 by Australian author Matthew Reilly. It is the latest installment in the Shane Schofield series. On 24 December 2010, Reilly announced his fifth Scarecrow novel stating: One month before the official release, Reilly's publisher released a video trailer for the book. During a routine re-staffing of Dragon Island, an old Soviet weapons installation in the Arctic, a Russian Spetsnaz team comes under fire from an unknown enemy. Vasily Ivanov, a researcher assigned to Dragon, manages to send out