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The Spoilers / Juggernaut
Desmond Bagley
Double action thrillers by the classic adventure writer set in the Middle East and Africa.THE SPOILERSWhen film tycoon Robert Hellier loses his daughter to heroin, he declares war on the drug pedlars, the faceless overlords whose greed supplies the world with its deadly pleasures. London drug specialist Nicholas Warren is called upon to organise an expedition to the Middle East to track down and destroy them - but with a hundred million dollars' worth of heroin at stake, Warren knows he will have to use methods as deadly as his prey…JUGGERNAUTIt was no ordinary juggernaut. Longer than a football pitch, weighing 550 tons, and moving at just five miles per hour, its job - and that of troubleshooter Neil Mannix - is to move a giant transformer across an oil-rich African state. But when Nyala erupts in civil war, Mannix's juggernaut is at the centre of the conflict - a target of ambush and threat, with no way to run and nowhere to hide…Includes a unique bonus - The House of the Lions, a story written exclusively for Desmond Bagley's Christmas house guests in the 1960s.
DESMOND BAGLEY
The Spoilers
AND
Juggernaut
COPYRIGHT (#ulink_5268e1be-1194-54f5-9fb1-bdf868342d74)
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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The Spoilers first published in Great Britain by Collins 1969 Juggernaut first published in Great Britain by Collins 1985
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Source ISBN: 9780007304806
Ebook Edition © JUNE 2012 ISBN: 9780007347674
Version: 2018-04-03
PRAISE (#ulink_0a45c69b-88cb-5efd-b348-524ccb93737b)
‘I’ve read all Bagley’s books and he’s marvellous, the best.’
ALISTAIR MACLEAN
‘Sizzling adventure.’
Evening Standard
‘Bagley has become a master of the genre – a thriller writer of intelligence and originality.’
Sunday Times
‘Compulsively readable.’
Guardian
‘From word one, you’re off. Bagley’s one of the best.’
The Times
‘The best adventure stories I have read for years.’
Daily Mirror
‘Bagley has no equal at this sort of thing.’
Sunday Mirror
‘Tense, heroic, chastening … a thumping good story.’
Sunday Express
‘The detail is immaculately researched – the action has the skill to grab your heart or your bowels.’
Daily Mirror
‘Bagley in top form.’
Evening Standard
‘Bagley is a master story-teller.’
Daily Mirror
CONTENTS
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This one is for Pat and Philip Bawcombeand, of course, Thickabe
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She lay on the bed in an abandoned attitude, oblivious of the big men crowding the room and making it appear even smaller than it was. She had been abandoned by life, and the big men were there to find out why, not out of natural curiosity but because it was their work. They were policemen.
Detective-Inspector Stephens ignored the body. He had given it a cursory glance and then turned his attention to the room, noting the cheap, rickety furniture and the threadbare carpet which was too small to hide dusty boards. There was no wardrobe and the girl’s few garments were scattered, some thrown casually over a chair-back and others on the floor by the side of the bed. The girl herself was naked, an empty shell. Death is not erotic.
Stephens picked up a sweater from the chair and was surprised at its opulent softness. He looked at the maker’s tab and frowned before handing it to Sergeant Ipsley. ‘She could afford good stuff. Any identification yet?’
‘Betts is talking to the landlady.’
