Bahama Crisis

A curious book (for Desmond Bagley) in that it's not really a thriller and more of drama/soap opera about running a hotel in the Bahamas. There's a weird vibe to the story has the hero's life is a series nightmares--his wife and daughter are killed, his hotel chain is struck by legionnaire's disease......more

Non il migliore di Bagley. Il protagonista ha le skills di sopravvivenza di un sedano rapa, e non ho apprezzato la rapidità con cui ha accantonato la morte della moglie e della figlia maggiore. Tutto sommato un romanzo d'avventura godibile......more

I thought this was one of the better Bagley's I've read recently. There was a bit more mystery to it, as the motive behind the events is carefully obscured, and you're not sure if the business partners are really good or not. There was a fair amount of murder, though you don't get to feel any emotio......more

Pretty good. A lot of the content and context is showing it's age now and the ending doesn't make a lot of sense given a contemporary understanding of the regions and it's relationships (he says, valiantly attempting not to spoil this for you). I was really disappointed in some of the characterisatio......more

Bagley rounded out the 70s with ‘Flyaway’, a “boy’s own” adventure yarn in the mould of his earlier classic ‘High Citadel’. He saw in the 80s - an awkward decade for the Bagley/MacLean/Innes coterie of old-school thriller writers - with ‘Bahama Crisis’, a slice of lifestyle porn overlaid with thrill......more