Desmond Bagley

Celebrated for his fast-paced stories and attention to detail, thriller writer Desmond Bagley was born in the Lake District and spent his early working life in the aircraft industry, before his adventurous spirit took him on an exciting road trip to South Africa, where he settled as a freelance journalist and film critic.

His first novel, The Golden Keel was an instant success, and he went on to write a further fifteen gripping stories, which have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Lived: 1923 - 1983

Bahamas Crisis

Tom Mangan is the affluent proprietor of a number of luxury hotels in the Bahamas, whose future looks even brighter with the injection of fifty million dollars provided by a well-heeled Texan family. The day Mangan clinches the deal with his friend, Bill Cunningham, should be the happiest day of his life, but when his(…)

Fly Away

The disappearance of Paul Billson, clerk in an engineering firm, seems a minor matter to security consultant, Max Stafford. But when routine enquiries result in Stafford being beaten up, he goes after Billson, who has impulsively taken off for the Sahara, where his air ace father had crashed during the London to Cape Town air(…)

Windfall

Jan Willem Hendryk’s legacy amounts to a staggering $40 million – $34 million to go to an agricultural college in Kenya’s Rift Valley, and the remaining $6 million to be divided equally between his only surviving descendants: out living in California. But a number of suspicious circumstances emerge, including a clause in the will stating(…)

High Citadel

Isolated in the biting cold of the Andes, after their plane has been hijacked and forced to crash-land, Tim O’Hara’s passengers are fighting for their lives. While one group of survivors, lead by O’Hara, attempt to cross the peaks along a deadly, snow-covered pass, the other is working to stall the armed group of soldiers(…)

Juggernaut

It is longer than a football pitch, weighs 550 tons, and moves at an average of five miles per hour. Its job – and that of company trouble-shooter, Neil Mannix – is to move a giant transformer across Nyala, an oil-rich African state. When Nyala erupts into civil war, Mannix finds himself, and the juggernaut,(…)

Landslide

Geologist, Bob Boyd, who works in British Columbia timber country, has no memory of his past following a terrible accident, which only he survived. Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly(…)

Night of Error

The only discernable bond in the relationship of brothers Mark and Mike Trevelyan is their fascination with the sea and its secrets. When Mike hears of his brother’s death, during an expedition to a remote Pacific atoll, the circumstances are suspicious enough to force him to investigate, and when he is the victim of a(…)

Running Blind

“It’ll be simple”, they said at the Department. “You’ll just be a messenger boy”. But to Alan Stewart, on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. Someone very ruthless is after the innocent-looking parcel he carries, and Kenniken, a Russian agent with the best of(…)

The Freedom Trap

An agent of the British Government is sent on a new and deadly assignment – to snare The Scarperers (a notorious gang of criminals who organise gaol-breaking for long-term prisoners) and Slade, a notorious Russian double agent whom they have recently liberated. The trail leads him to Malta, where he comes face-to-face with these ruthless(…)

The Enemy

Financial consultant, Malcolm Jaggard, begins a desperate investigation when flourishing industrialist and former Russian scientist, George Ashton, the father of Jaggard’s fiancie, mysteriously disappears following a vicious acid attack on his daughter. Ashton is traced from his home in Buckinghamshire to the wintry forests of Sweden, in a compelling tale about rivalries between intelligence groups(…)

The Golden Keel

Mussolini’s missing treasure – worth three million pounds – lies hidden in Italy. A group of adventurers set sail to track down the treasure and smuggle it out, encountering many enemies along the route, including murderous ex-partisans, ruthless beauties and menacing smugglers, all of whom will stop at nothing for a chance to hijack the(…)

The Snow Tiger

A small mining community in New Zealand is devastated when ‘the snow tiger’ (an avalanche) rips apart their entire township in a matter of minutes, killing fifty-four people. In the course of the ensuing enquiry, the antagonisms and fears of the community are laid bare, and a ruthless battle, for control of a multi-million pound(…)

The Spoilers

When film tycoon, Sir Robert Hellier, loses his daughter to heroin, he declares war on the drug pedlars. London drug specialist, Nicholas Warren, is called in to organise an expedition to the Middle East, in an attempt to track down the big-time dope runners, inveigle themselves into their confidence and make them an offer they(…)

The Tightrope Men

Giles Denison’s life is turned upside down when he awakes to find himself in a luxurious hotel in Oslo and, peering into the bathroom mirror, discovers the face of another man! He has been kidnapped from his flat in London and transformed into famous Finnish scientist, Dr Harold Feltham Meyrick. Compelled to adjust to his(…)

The Vivero Letter

Jeremy Wheale’s well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom – a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of(…)

Wyatts Hurricane

A U.S. Naval aircraft on a routine weather patrol in the Caribbean encounters ‘Mabel’, a ferocious hurricane that should, nevertheless, pass harmlessly among the islands. But David Wyatt, civilian weather expert, has developed a sixth sense about hurricanes and is convinced that Mabel will change course and strike the island of San Fernandez and its(…)

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