Juggernaut

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Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Africa.
It is no ordinary juggernaut. Longer than a football pitch, weighing 550 tons, and moving at just five miles per hour, its job and that of troubleshooter Neil Mannix is to move a giant transformer across an oil-rich African state. But when Nyala erupts in civil war, Mannixs juggernaut is at the centre of the conflict a target of ambush and threat, with no way to run and nowhere to hide

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Bagley is a master story-teller. Daily Mirror

Author Bio

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.