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Desmond Bagley wrote 16 novels, becoming one of the world's top-selling authors, with his books translated into more than 30 languages. He was born in 1923 in Kendal and brought up in Blackpool, beginning his working life, aged 14, in the printing industry. After working in an aircraft factory during the Second World War, he decided to travel, working his way through Europe and southern Africa, and in 1951 joined the gold mining industry before becoming a freelance journalist in Johannesburg, where he wrote his first novel, The Golden Keel, in 1962. In 1964 he returned to England, finally settling in Guernsey with his wife, where he died in 1983.

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The Tightrope Men by Desmond Bagley

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He knows that he is Giles Dennison of Hampstead, but that is the only thing he knows for sure. He wakes up one morning in an Oslo hotel and the face in the mirror is not his own. This is only the beginning of an adventure in which he is trapped, with no hope of escape.

Flyaway by Desmond Bagley

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A small aircraft participating in a London-Cape Town race in 1936 disappeared in the Southern Sahara. Forty years later a gang of hired killers tries to foil attempts to locate the wreck.

The Vivero Letter by Desmond Bagley

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Jeremy Wheale's life is transformed when his brother is murdered by a small-time American crook. Wheale tries to find out why his brother died, which takes him on a trail from Devon to the tropical rain forests of Yucatan. There he joins the hunt for a fabled hoard of Mayan gold.