The Freedom Trap
By (Author) Desmond Bagley
HarperCollins Publishers
Collins Crime Club
24th April 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
823.914
Paperback
272
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
200g
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Malta.
The Scarperers, a brilliantly organised gang which gets long-term inmates out of prison, spring a notorious Russian double agent. The trail leads Owen Stannard to Malta, and to the suave killer masterminding the gang. Face to face at last with his opponents, Stannard must try to outwit both men who have nothing to lose and everything to gain by his death
Literate, exciting, knowledgeable adventure stories Desmond Bagley is incomparable. Sunday Mirror
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.