- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Fontana Press; (Reissue) edition (22 Feb 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006172504
- ISBN-13: 978-0006172505
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 148,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Compulsively readable.' GUARDIAN
'As long as meticulous craftsmanship and honest entertainment are valued, and as long as action, authenticity, and expertise still make up the strong framework of the good adventure/thriller, Desmond Bagley's books will surely be read.' REGINALD HILL, Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers
'Bagley is a master storyteller.' DAILY MIRROR
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An enormous slow-moving industrial convoy becomes a terrifying military target when civil war breaks out in a southern African state…
It was no ordinary juggernaut. Longer than a football pitch, weighing 550 tons, and moving at an average of five miles per hour, it also carries a load whose worth is almost priceless.
Its job - and that of company troubleshooter Neil Mannix - is to move a giant transformer across Nyala, an oil-rich African state. Outwardly politically stable, Nyala erupts in civil war, and Mannix finds himself, and the juggernaut, at the centre of the conflict - a target of ambush and threat, with no way to run and nowhere to hide…
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Desmond Bagley's "Juggernaut", was forgettable. I have really liked some of his thrillers in the past, but despite its solid premise of driving an oversized rig through an African country breaking out into civil war promises a lot, it fails to deliver in my eyes. This was his final novel, completed by his family after his death, and I suspect it would have seen more editing and improvements had he been there to do the job himself.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Weak story by a fine author.
19 April 2008
Format:Paperback
Desmond Bagley is a fine author, one of my personal favorites. But every author, no matter how fine, has to have a least-impressive book, and this is Bagley's. It's a perfectly acceptable action story, but the characters and the setting aren't nearly as captivating as any of his other books. And the deus-ex-machina ending was certainly not up to his usual standards.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A good book
9 Sep 2000
Format:Hardcover
Neil Mannix have a mission in a westafrican country. His mission is to drive a trailer to a oilfield, but that is easier said than done. It start with tribe unrest and develop to a civil war. Mannix is in the middle of the problems.
The book is exciting and nice to read if you don't have other things to do. If you like action, this book could be worth a look.
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