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Nome canónico: Bagley, Desmond
Outros nomes: Bagley, Simon
Data de nascimento: 1923-10-29
Data de falecimento: 1983-04-12
Localização do túmulo: Cremated
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: UK
Local de nascimento: Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK
Local de falecimento: Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Locais de residência: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Durban, South Africa
Italy
Totnes, Devon, England, UK
Guernsey, Bailiwick of Guernsey
Bishopsteignton, Devon, England, UK
Ocupações: printer's assistant
factory worker
freelance writer
novelist
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425: Desmond Bagley veröffentlichte auch Kurzgeschichten. Wenn er nicht unterwegs war, um Schauplätze und Hintergründe für seine Romane zu recherchieren, verbrachte er seine Zeit oft auf seiner Segelyacht oder seinem Motorboot. Er liebte es überdies, sich mit klassischer Musik, Militärgeschichte sowie dem modellhaften Nachspielen historischer Schlachten zu beschäftigen.

Bagley schrieb seine Werke nahezu ausschließlich mit zwei Fingern auf einer alten Schreibmaschine, erst die letzten Werke entstanden auf einem Xerox-Computersystem mit Textverarbeitungsprogramm.

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Bahama Crisis por Desmond Bagley

Although it was written in 1980, Bahama Crisis by Desmond Bagley describes a side of life in the Bahamas that may still sound familiar. When a wealthy Bahamanian executive joins forces with an old friend to grow his tourism businesses, his life immediately becomes more complicated. His wife and daughter disappear at sea and his various enterprises seem to be sabotaged to discourage tourists from coming to the Bahamas. The action is fast-paced, with questions of murder, terrorism, and the importance of tourism to the Bahamas. A page-turner.… (mais)

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sleahey | 5 outras críticas | Apr 12, 2024 |

Sněžný tygr por Desmond Bagley

Dramatický román z Nového Zélandu líčí vyšetřování příčin přírodní katastrofy, která zničila přes padesát lidských životů v malém hornickém městečku.

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PDSS | 4 outras críticas | Oct 16, 2023 |

Nachtelijke dwaling por Desmond Bagley

Nice subtle thriller

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ruit | 1 outra crítica | Aug 14, 2022 |

High Citadel por Desmond Bagley

Written in the mid-60s, ‘High Citadel’ is about as solid a traditional adventure thriller as you could hope to read. It has a simple but effective premise, a square-jawed hero, a decent supporting cast, and as much of the peril coming from nature as it does bad guys. I wrote recently in my review of Bagley’s recently published novel ‘Domino Island’ that I thought this was one of he first “grown up” books I read. Reading it I’m not sure it was, as none of it rung a bell for me. I definitely remember a paperback copy of the edition I’ve used for the cover image being in the house when I was a kid though. And indeed when I mailed my Dad to give him my thoughts on ‘Domino Island’, he mentioned ‘High Citadel’ as his favourite of Bagley’s books.
Like a lot of these kind of novels, the hero is a white man abroad. If that feels like a dated set up nowadays, then the fact that a great deal of the dialogue is about how terrible communists are probably won’t seem any more current. The book is certainly very much of its time. In this case the white man is Irish pilot Tom O’Hara, who flies a battered old Dakota for a shoestring airline operating in the Andes. He’s given the task of flying ten passengers across the mountains, but then the flight is hijacked and he has to make a crash landing. O’Hara and the surviving passengers end up in a fight for survival against a vicious group of soldiers (communist ones, naturally).
Politics aside, it’s an immediately appealing set up. The battle against both the hostile environment and the troops is genuinely gripping, with the passengers using their ingenuity to survive. Bagley throws everything at them. The books features mountain climbing, aerial dogfights, medieval weapons and more. It’s a classic adventure and thrilling from first page to last. O’Hara is an enjoyable everyman hero, but it’s the ragtag supporting characters that really make the book fun. They have the variety of a disaster movie cast and are just as enjoyable. The book is over 50 years old now, but I’d still take this kind of thriller over the carbon copy ex-special forces operatives getting revenge style books that seem to make up the genre nowadays.
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whatmeworry | 2 outras críticas | Apr 9, 2022 |

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