The Spoilers
By (Author) Desmond Bagley
HarperCollins Publishers
Collins Crime Club
24th April 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Narrative theme: Social issues
823.914
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 21mm
250g
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the Middle East.
When film tycoon Robert Hellier loses his daughter to heroin, he declares war on the drug pedlars, the faceless overlords whose greed supplies the world with its deadly pleasures. London drug specialist Nicholas Warren is called upon to organise an expedition to the Middle East to track down and destroy them but with a hundred million dollars worth of heroin at stake, Warren knows he will have to use methods as deadly as his prey
Bagley in top form. Evening Standard
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.