Wyatts Hurricane
By (Author) Desmond Bagley
HarperCollins Publishers
Collins Crime Club
23rd January 2017
12th January 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
823.914
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
220g
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the islands of the Caribbean.
Ferocious Hurricane Mabel is predicted to pass harmlessly amongst the islands of the Caribbean. But David Wyatt has developed a sixth sense about hurricanes. He is convinced that Mabel will change course to strike the island of San Fernandez and its capital, St Pierre. But nobody believes him, and the hurricane is only one of the problems that threaten San Fernandez
Stories charged with suspense. Financial 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.