Books by Desmond Bagley

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Books by Desmond Bagley, paperback pocketbooks, 1.50 euro per boek

High Citadel, 226 bladzijden, ca 160 gram
O Hara swung the control column gently and the Dakota swept to port in a wide, easy curve, heading for a gap in the towering wall ahead.
Grivas said softly, "Senor O Hara."
"Don t bother me now."
"But I must,"said Grivas, and there was a tiny metallic click.
O Hara glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and stiffened.Grivas was pointing a gun at him.....

Running Blind, 221 bladzijden, ca 160 gram
"It ll be simple,"they had said at the Department. "You ll just be a messenger boy."
But to Alan Stewart, on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looked anything but simple. Was the parcel he carried as innocent as it seemed? If so, why had Russian agent Kennikin followed him to Iceland?
There were many more questions Stewart wanted to ask - but the answers threatened to be as menacing as the landscape.

The Snow Tiger, 253 bladzijden, ca 170 gram
When the white death came to Hukahoronui, Dr. Robert Scott was blown across a river in his car, Liz Peterson was buried alive with two broken ribs, Matt Houghton saw his house topple down a hill.
At the enquiry that followed, they were among the survivors whose stories were heard - gradually revealing a community torn by apathy, greed and fear - and showing that the disaster was not so natural after all....

The Enemy, 255 bladzijden, ca 170 gram
The enemy strikes and strikes again, as George Ashton flees for his life after an acid attack on his daughter.
Who is his enemy? Only Malcolm Jaggard, his future son-in-law, can guess - when, as a government agent he sees Ashton s secret file.
In a desperate manhunt Jaggard outwits the KGB and stalks Ashton to the silent and wintry forests of Sweden. But his search for the real enemy takes him further still.....

Windfall, 320 bladzijden, ca 180 gram
The legacy was 40 million pounds.
The source of the fortune was unknown, wrapped in mystery.
The main benefactor was a small college in the remote Rift Valley in Kenya. The heirs were the South African, Dirk Hendricks and the unknown, recently discovered descendant, Henry Hendrix from California.
Mild suspicion that Henry Hendrix was an imposter led Max Stafford, security consultant, to Kenya. But the violent reaction to his arrival pointed to a sinister and far-reaching conspiracy far beyond mere greed.

The Tightrope Men, 254 blazdijden, ca 160 gram
He is Giles Denison of Hampstead. That he knows - but that is all. One morning he wakes up in an Oslo hotel, wearing another man s pyamas and with another man s face. But this is only the beginning of a hair-raising adventure in which Denison finds himself trapped, with no hope of escape. One false move from him and everything will be over, the whole delicately balanced power structure between East and West will come toppling down....

Flyaway, 251 blazdijden, ca 170 gram
Why is Max Stafford, head of Stafford Security Consultants, beaten up and in trouble in his own office?
What is the secret of the famous 1930 s aircraft FLYAWAY?
Why has Paul Billson disappeard in North Africa?
The race to FLYAWAY is a race to save Paul Billson, a race to find the aircraft, a race to return alive.

Night of Error, 314 blazdijden, ca 180 gram
The sea and its secrets always fascinated the Trevelyan brothers. It is on an expedition to a remote Pacific atoll that Mark dies - a natural death Mike is told.
There was no love lost between the brothers. But the circumstances surrounding Mark s death were suspicious enough for Mike to investigate - even without the series of violent attacks on him that followed.
There were just two clues - a notebook in code and a lump of rock - enough to trigger off a hazardous expedition, and a violent confrontation far from civilisation.

Landslide, 253 blazdijden, ca 150 gram
Bob Boyd is a big man - tough as the man s country that he is working. His job - to carry out a geological survey for the powerful Matterson Corrporation who are building a dam in the lumber country of British Columbia....
The name Trinavant gives Bob a shock - a name connected with the dark forgotten past. A strange link in the chain of his memory is forged - he begins to investigate the Trinavants and finds Clare.
The Mattersons don t like questions and a manhunt is instigated - but Boyd is a hunted man with information that could save thousands of lives....

Wyatt s Hurricane, 254 blazdijden, ca 160 gram
A U.S. naval aircraft on a routine weather patrol in the Caribbean encounters Hurricane Mabel. There is nothing abnormal about Mabel except her ferocity. She should pass harmlessly among the islands, but David Wyatt, civilian weather expert, 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.
Scientific evidence is against him: the Commander of the U.S. Base refuses to evacuate: and Wyatt s lone voice if finally overwhelmed when a rebellion against the tyrannical dictator who rules San Fernandez sweeps down on threatened St. Pierre.
To save everything he cares for, Wyatt is forced to pit himself against seemingly insuperable odds, aided only by a small and diverse group of English and American civilians - and by Hurricane Mabel herself...

The Golden Keel, 221 blazdijden, ca 160 gram
Mussolini s missing treasure - three million pounds of it - lies hidden in Italy. A group of adventurers set sail to track down the treasure and smuggle it out. But how?
There are many enemies along the route - murderous ex-partisans, ruthless titled beauties, gangster smugglers - all of whom will stop at nothing for a chance to hi-jack a fortune....

The Vivero Letter, 253 blazdijden, ca 160 gram
Jeremy Wheale is an ordinary man, leading an uneventful life. Then his brother is murdered, and Jeremy, determined to track down the killer, finds his first clue is an old tray - made of 16th century Spanish gold. The trial leads to Yucatan and an expedition in search of a lost Mayan city, In the dense Mexican rain forests, archaeologists battle with cut-throat racketeers in their relentless quest for gold....

Bahama Crisis, 250 bladzijden, ca 160 gram
Tom Mangan, sharply succesful entrepreneur, lured the super-rich to his luxury hotels in the sun-soaked Bahamas. Then violent tragedy struck. His own family disappeared. A series of misfortunes, accidents and mysterious epidemics began to drive the tourists away, and wreck Mangan s livelihood.
Tom Mangan is determined to change his luck, and is forced into direct confrontation with his enemy. Fatally he recognises him, and the hunt is on....

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