Bahama Crisis
By (Author) Desmond Bagley
HarperCollins Publishers
Collins Crime Club
21st August 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
272
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
200g
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the islands of the Caribbean.
Tom Mangan was a sharply successful entrepreneur who lured the super-rich to his luxury hotels in the sun-soaked Bahamas. Then violent tragedy struck: his own family disappeared, and a series of misfortunes, accidents and mysterious epidemics began to drive the tourists away and wreck Mangans livelihood. Fatally, he becomes determined to confront his enemy and the hunt is on
Tautly written adventure, packed with exhaustive detail. You will be out of breath when you finish. Books and Bookmen
Desmond Bagley wrote 16 novels, becoming one of the world's top-selling authors, with his books translated into more than 30 languages. He was born in 1923 in Kendal and brought up in Blackpool, beginning his working life, aged 14, in the printing industry. After working in an aircraft factory during the Second World War, he decided to travel, working his way through Europe and southern Africa, and in 1951 joined the gold mining industry before becoming a freelance journalist in Johannesburg, where he wrote his first novel, The Golden Keel, in 1962. In 1964 he returned to England, finally settling in Guernsey with his wife, where he died in 1983.