- Hardcover: 252 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; First Edition edition (1 Jan 1981)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002223589
- ISBN-13: 978-9010036490
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,296,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Mangans, having fought on the losing side of the American War of Independence, sail to the Bahamas, where they settle and prosper.
Several generations later, Tom Mangan is the affluent proprietor of a number of luxury hotels, whose future looks even brighter with the injection of fifty million dollars provided by a well-heeled Texan family. The day Mangan clinches the deal with his friend, Bill Cunningham, should be the happiest day of his life, but a family tragedy followed by a series of misfortunes and disasters eventually leads him to suspect a conspiracy to ruin him, or, perhaps, something even more horrifying. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Celebrated for his fast-paced stories and attention to detail, thriller writer Desmond Bagley was born in the Lake District and spent his early working life in the aircraft industry, before his adventurous spirit took him on an exciting road trip to South Africa, where he settled as a freelance journalist and film critic. His first novel, The Golden Keel was an instant success, and he went on to write a further fifteen gripping stories, which have been translated into more than 20 languages.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Desmond Bagley was obsessive when it came to research. Indeed he spent some time in the Bahamas with his wife researching this novel - the results (for anyone who has been to the islands)are clearly evident. The atmosphere literally floats off the page and engulfs you. Desmond Bagley (during the years he lived in Guernsey) was also mentor to bestselling author John Templeton Smith. Read Smith's latest works, Saigon Express and White Lie and see the Bagley tradition of excellence living on.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
While I enjoyed this book, and read it quickly and found it an easy page turner, there were parts of the plotline which were just highly unbelievable. His goons are moronic, and completely unobservant, his main character always has a way out of trouble, even if it involves some pretty unbelievable stunts.
While I did enjoy this, and would recommend it to others, you really have to suspend belief for this novel. It becomes more fantasy than thriller fiction in places!
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Deadly Vacation
27 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback
Tom Mangan had a new partner, new goals, a beautiful wife and two daughters until his world went horribly wrong in Desmond Bagley's Bahama Crisis. His wife and daughter leave the Bahamas for a short cruise to Miami, but they never reach their destination. A week later his daughter's body is discovered on Cat Cay way off course, she didn't drown; she was murdered. His boat, the captain, and his wife are never found.
Slowly he puts his life back together and begins to function as the head of a 50 million resort change and father to his remaining daughter. He discovers new happiness in the arms of a cousin of his partner when everything goes haywire for a second time.
But this weird business not only has repercussions in his private life but the entire economy of the haven of resort The Bahamas. Will the authorities be too slow in stoping a mad scheme to wreck the island resorts?
It is an exciting, fast paced story of action and adventure. A good arm-chair read.
Nash Black, author of Sins of the Fathers.
Slowly he puts his life back together and begins to function as the head of a 50 million resort change and father to his remaining daughter. He discovers new happiness in the arms of a cousin of his partner when everything goes haywire for a second time.
But this weird business not only has repercussions in his private life but the entire economy of the haven of resort The Bahamas. Will the authorities be too slow in stoping a mad scheme to wreck the island resorts?
It is an exciting, fast paced story of action and adventure. A good arm-chair read.
Nash Black, author of Sins of the Fathers.
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