Bahama Crisis [Hardcover]

Desmond Bagley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1983

Tom Mangan is the affluent proprietor of a number of luxury hotels in the Bahamas, 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 when his wife and daughter go missing at sea and a series of disasters befall his hotels, he begins to uncover a conspiracy to ruin him.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

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. His first novel, The Golden Keel, was based on a true story overheard by Bagley in a bar in Johannesburg, about Mussolini's vast personal riches and the men who went looking for it. It was published in 1963 to great acclaim and followed by a further fifteen popular adventure ovels. Bgley's career spanned two decades and his influence can be seen in the work of several highly respected thriller writers. When he died, in 1983, his final novel, Juggernaut, was completed by his wife. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 253 pages
• Publisher: Summit Books; First Edition edition (September 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671434535
• ISBN-13: 978-0671434533
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,516,283 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Deadly Vacation, February 26, 2011

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Nash Black "Troubadour" (Jamestown, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bahama Crisis (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.