Night of Error
By (Author) Desmond Bagley
HarperCollins Publishers
Collins Crime Club
21st August 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
240g
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the Pacific.
When Mark Trevelyan dies on a journey to a remote Pacific atoll, the verdict that it was natural causes doesnt convince his brother, Mike. The series of violent attacks that follows only adds to his suspicions. Just two clues a notebook in code and a lump of rock are enough to trigger off a hazardous expedition, and a violent confrontation far from civilization
The detail is immaculately researched the action has the skill to grab your heart or your bowels. Daily 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.