Desmond Bagley

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Title: Night Of Error: Description:
covers scuffed,spine slanted and creased

Title: Juggernaut: Description:
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 troubleshooter, 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, at the centre of the conflict. Can Mannix deliver the transformer to its destination or will warring factions finally halt its progress and destroy it?

Title: Windfall: Description:
A legacy of #40 million is left in Kenya to South African Dirk Hendricks and the unknown, recently discovered descendant, Harry Hendrix from California. Suspicions that Harry is an imposter lead security consultant Max Stafford to go to Africa and investigate

Title: Bahama Crisis: Description:
the mangans family settle in the bahamas. generations later tragedy and disaster strikes.

Title: Landslide: Description:
Boyd works as a geologist for the powerful Matterson Corporation, but his memory of his earlier life has been wiped by an accident. Then the name Trinevant sparks a memory, and Boyd begins to investigate, but discovers that Bull Matterson will do anything to keep the Trinevants forgotten forever.

Title: The Golden Keel: Description:
When the Allies invaded southern Italy in 1943, Mussolini's personal treasure was moved north to safety. It was never seen again, but the secret of its whereabouts did not die with its escort. Years later, Peter Halloran decides to unearth the treasure but there are enemies awaiting his arrival.

Title: The Enemy: Description:
Wealthy George Ashton flees for his life after an acid attack on his daughter. Who is the enemy? Only Malcolm Jaggard, his future son-in-law, can guess after seeing Ashton's top secret government file. In a desperate manhunt, pitted against the KGB, Jaggard finally tracks him down to Sweden. About the Author 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: The Golden Keel: Description:
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 fortune.

Title: High Citadel.: Description:
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 who plan to kill them all once they have managed to cross a torrential river. Ingenious ideas are put into action in a dramatic attempt to prolong their survival until help arrives.

Title: Wyatt's Hurricane: Description:
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 capital, St Pierre. Scientific evidence is against him, the Commander of the U.S. Base refuses to evacuate, and Wyatt's lone voice is finally overwhelmed when a rebellion against the tyrannical dictator who rules San Fernandez sweeps down on St Pierre. Wyatt is forced to pit himself against insuperable odds, aided only by a small and diverse group of English and American civilians - and by Hurricane Mabel herself.

Title: Enemy, The: Description:
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 and shocking experiments in genetic engineering.

Title: Flyaway: Description:
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 race forty years earlier. A recent newspaper smear implied that Billson's father had rigged the crash to profit from an insurance scandal. Now Billson is intent on locating the plane and clearing his father's name - but someone is determined that he should never find it.

Title: Landslide.: Description:
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 in their ointment. Matters are complicated when he falls in love with Claire Trinavant, the last link to a forgotten family whose name strikes a mysteriously resonant chord.

Title: The Vivero Letter: Description:
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 a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

Title: Spoilers, The: Description:
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 can't refuse. No expense is spared in the plans for their capture, but with a hundred million dollars worth of heroin at stake, the 'spoilers' must use methods as ruthless as their prey.

Title: Running Blind: Description:
"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 reasons for hating him, has followed him to Iceland.

Title: The Freedom Trap: Description:
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 killers and must outwit them to save his own life.

Title: Tightrope Men: Description:
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 new persona (including meeting his daughter) and to play out the role assigned to him by his captors, he embarks on a dangerous escapade from Norway to Finland and across the border into Soviet Russia.

Title: The Snow Tiger: Description:
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 international mining group, is exposed. The tension in the courtroom mounts as each survivor gives his graphic account of the terrifying sequence of events.

Title: Bahama Crisis: Description:
Tom Mangan is a successful entrepreneur who lures the super-rich to his luxury hotels in the Bahamas. Then tragedy strikes, his family disappears and a series of accidents begins to drive the tourists away. Determined to change his luck, Tom is forced into direct confrontation with his enemy.

Title: The Vivero Letter: Description:
1968, Hardback with dust cover. Published by Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd.

Title: Night Of Error: Description:
The sea and its secrets always fascinated the Trevelyan brothers. It is on an expedition that Mark learns that his brother, an unscrupulous adventrure, has died on a remote Pacific atoll