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by Desmond Bagley (Author)
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  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: House of Stratus; New edition edition (18 Sep 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1842320122
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842320129
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Isolated in the biting cold of the Andes, after their plane has been hijacked and forced to crash-land, Tim O'Hara's passengers are fighting for their lives. While one group of survivors, lead by O'Hara, attempt to cross the peaks along a deadly, snow-covered pass, the other is working to stall the armed group of soldiers who plan to kill them all once they have managed to cross a torrential river. Ingenious ideas are put into action in a dramatic attempt to prolong their survival until help arrives.


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Desmond Bagley was born in 1923, in Kendal, a rural town in England's scenic Lake District. He left school aged fourteen and worked for a number of years in the aircraft industry before embarking on an adventure - travelling to South Africa by road and supporting himself along the way by working in gold and asbestos mines. Bagley spent the Fifties in South Africa, working as a freelance journalist and critic, before moving to Italy with his wife, Margaret, and then to Guernsey.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read it! Read iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!, 23 Sep 2001
... Aside from the fact that it's a brilliant read it's partly the fault of this book that I've ended up studying history (let's just say the character of Dr Armstrong had something of an effect on my warped little mind). It seems Bagley did his research every bit as well as someone like Tom Clancy, but his books have a more lightweight feel. This is not a criticism as Bagley's books are extremely readable and will keep you gripped and never commit the sin (which many modern thrillers commit) of getting to the stage where it feels like you are ploughing through a military handbook. The writing style shows its age somewhat but for me that is also a good thing! Basically if you are up for a good adventure that will keep you hooked and actually have you care what happens to the characters, Desmond Bagley is your man and high citadel is a brilliant example of his work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF THE BEST ..., 15 Nov 2000
By jts.author@euphony.net (Guernsey, Channel Islands) - See all my reviews
I have just re-read this book after many years. Suffice to say it has lost none of its brilliance. Indeed for any pilots and ex-pilots out there, I challenge you to come away from this story not believing that the author was an ex-flyer himself. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. Bagley was simple a writer of the first rank who had long since realised that the key to a good novel was the depth of research. It was a tip he passed on to me, and one I have endeavoured to pass along to other aspiring writers. Read Bagley for the first time and I guarantee you'll end up reading all fifteen novels he produced before his untimely death in 1984.

From John Templeton Smith.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Andean Escapism a sure fire hit, 5 Sep 2008
By Tony Roberts (Bristol, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I collected every one of Bagley's novels when I was in my late teens and early twenties. His early death was a sad day for people like me who loved those thriller/adventure novels in the line of MacLean-Jenkins-Bagley that seemed to proliferate in the 70s.

This tale, Bagley's second published book, sees a broken-down ex-RAF pilot working for a down-and-out tin-pot South American airline where his life is going nowhere except down a whisky bottle - much later we are told the reason behind this are his nightmares that reoccur about the time he was captured by the Chinese communists in Korea. The pilot's life is transformed however one day when communists intent on toppling this South American country's government hijack the place he's plying and force it to crash land in the Andes.

The survivors have to improvise and band together for safety and it becomes clear that a political leader is amongst them who is the target for the communists. The book branches into two plots at this point; the rescue mission where three of the survivors try to cross a seemingly impassable ridge to get help and the rest try to fight off the armed communist rebels who appear and drive the pilot, the politician and the other survivors up higher into the mountains. At this point you see a developing relationship between the pilot and the daughter of the politician.

Eventually the rescue group find the airbase they were heading for but its under control of the communists. The American who survives the interrogation escapes and uses the plane he steals to destroy the rebels besieging the plane survivors and the story ends with the pilot's future seemingly much brighter thanks to the girl he's fallen for who persuades her father to get him a high post in the goverment.

Great escapism and a book recommended, as were all Bagley's books.
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