Windfall
By (Author) Desmond Bagley
HarperCollins Publishers
Collins Crime Club
21st August 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
352
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 25mm
250g
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer about security consultant, Max Stafford, set in Kenya.
When a legacy of 40 million is left to a small college in Kenya, investigations begin about the true identities of the heirs the South African, Dirk Hendriks, and his namesake, Henry Hendrix from California. Suspicion that Hendrix is an impostor leads Max Stafford to the Rift Valley, where a violent reaction to his arrival points to a sinister and far-reaching conspiracy far beyond mere greed
From word one, youre off. Bagleys one of the best. The Times
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.