The Mangans, having fought on the losing side of the American War of Independence, sail to the Bahamas, where they settle and prosper. Several generations later, Tom Mangan is the affluent proprietor of a number of luxury hotels, 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 a family tragedy followed by a series of misfortunes and disasters eventually leads him to suspect a conspiracy to ruin him, or, perhaps, something even more horrifying

The setting of High Citadel is the towering peaks of the Andes. A non-scheduled passenger plane is hi-jacked in mid-air and forced down among the forbidding mountains. The surviving passengers, stranded at 16,000 feet, embark on a perilous descent — only to find themselves trapped by a formidably armed Communist force whose prey is one particular passenger, the ex-president of Cordillera, and his lovely niece. But it soon becomes clear that the ambushers are intent on wiping out all the other survivors as well: “dead men tell no tales.” As the trapped men and women grimly realise the odds at stake, two intensely exciting stories unfold. On the lower slopes, a desperate delaying action is fought with ingeniously contrived weapons. At the same time, three of the men set out to brave the higher regions of the rock and glacier in a gruelling race for help. The climax, as unexpected as it is hair-raising, brings a wonderful at at times deeply moving adventure — thriller to a worthy close

In a sense, Bob Boyd was born at the age of 23 — the day a terrible car crush completely erased all memory of his previous life. Recovery had been a slow grim struggle and in the years since Boyd, following the advice of the hospital psychiatrist, had successfully suppressed all curiosity about the man he once was. Until, in a small timber town in British Columbia he is jolted by a name — Trinavant. Sluggishly, echoes from the dead past strike a disturbing chord. Boyd begins to make enquiries and in so doing disturbs a deadly hornet’s nest. The powerful Matterson family, for whom he is doing a land survey as part of a dam-building project, have spent years obliterating all memory of the Trinavant name. They will certainly not tolerate the determined probing of one footloose geologist — as Boyd discovers when he becomes the quarry in a murderous manhunt. Not are the Mattersons in any mood to listen to Boyd’s expert warnings of impending disaster, for the almost completed dam is built on an unstable geological strata and the whole community is threatened. This tremendously tense drama of one man’s battle against unscrupulous local interests and Boyd’s search for his lost identity is Desmond Bagley’s most trilling novel yet, its impressive magnitude matched only by the rugged grandeur of the wild Canadian background

‘It’ll be simple,’ Slade had said. ‘You’re just a messenger boy.’ To Alan Stewart, alone on a lonely road in Iceland with a murdered man in front of him and a mysterious parcel which Slade. Secret Service chief, had commissioned him to deliver in his car, it looked anything but simple. And that was only the beginning. Desmond Bagley’s new thriller is set in one of the most sparsely populated countries, and among some of the most dramatic scenery in the world, where communication in the wastes of the Obyggdir depends on wireless and transport on a Land-Rover’s ability to traverse impossible terrain. But the natural obstacles of boiling geysers, fast-flowing rivers, sheer cliffs, steep-sided valleys, are only a small part of what Stewart has to contend with as, aided only by his girl-friend Elin, he battles to carry out his mission on the one hand and on the other to stifle the suspicion that he has been double-crossed. His Russian adversary, like the tip of an iceberg, is perhaps only the part of the opposition that shows. And the contents of the small, vital parcel? That remains a surprise — for the reader as much as for Stewart in a finale of formidable power

Crime, like any other business, is conducted for profit. When someone figured out a way to make a profit out of engineering prison breaks, a new crime was born. The Freedom Trap deals with a highly organized gang of scarperers whose business it is to spring selected long-term prisoners who can afford the price. It was the rapid growth and spectacular success of this latest industry that prompted Long Mountbatten’s much-publicized investigation and report. But when rumours started circulating that Slade, the notorious traitor-spy last encountered in Mr. Bagley’s Running Blind, when he was jailed for forty years, was planning his escape from a top-security wing, M.1.5 felt they could not wait for the Home Office to take its usual lumbering action. Those dangerous scarperers must be smashed at all costs. And so the bait is clearly laid along a trail which starts in London, leading to a night of fireworks in Malta by way of Ireland and Gibraltar. The Prison trap is sprung all right, but the reader is immediately trapped more securely than any of the victims by the riveting twists and turns of what is easily Desmond Bagley’s most accomplished thriller to date

This riveting novel of adventure is based on a true story, one of the most daring hijacking exploits in recent history, which, despite the conviction of over a score of men and women for alleged complicity, continues to baffle both the Italian police and Interpol. When the Allies landed in Italy during the last war, Mussolini’s vast personal treasure, consisting of four tons of gold, millions in currency and jewels, and some of the most important Government archives, was moved north in a German S.S. convoy. As the convoy neared the Liguarian coast, it vanished. It has never been recovered. Desmond Bagley has cleverly reconstructed this coup and devised an ingenious fiction about the treasure’s fate and an attempt, years afterwards, by a group of men in the know to get hold of it and smuggle it out of Italy. For this purpose, a successful Cape Town boat-builder designs an ocean-going yacht and sails to the Mediterranean, aided and abetted by a South African, and an Englishman, both former P.O.W.’s in Italy. Between them, they have evolved a technically ingenious plan. To reach the treasure proves difficult enough; to get it out of Italy and dispose of it is even worse, especially since the Italian Government, a group of former partisans led by a ruthless and beautiful Contessa, and a piratically inclined British smuggler are all hot on the trail. The fate of the yacht and her crew is charted with breathtaking skill and suspense, and without revealing the outcome, it can be safely said that Desmond Bagley’s sea chase across the Mediterranean puts him straight into the great narrative tradition of those who write of small boats on big seas

An enquiry following an avalanche which destroyed a small New Zealand mining town, reveals a divided community which had ignored all danger signals. Ian Ballard, the young managing director of the mine, finds his career and even his life, depends upon his ability to clear his name. A million tons of snow and a hundred thousand tons of air were on the move, plunging down towards the mists of the valley. By the time the mist was reached, the avalanche was moving at over two hundred miles per hour. The air blast hit the mist and squirted it aside violently to reveal, only momentarily, a few buildings. A fraction of a second later, the main body of the avalanche hit the valley bottom. The white death had come to Hukahoronui

Sir Robert Hellier, millionaire film tycoon, was too busy making money to realize that his only daughter had become a drug addict until he learned she had died from an overdose of heroin. Now Sir Robert wanted action; he wanted blood. Not the blood of the sleazy drug-pushers who had supplied his daughter, but the blood of the big-time international suppliers of the market in Europe and the States. And Sir Robert was prepared to stake a large part of his personal fortune to cut heroin off at source. Enlisting the help of Dr Nicholas Warren, London drug specialist who knew as much about the problem as any police force, Sir Robert prevailed upon him to select a seemingly ill-assorted group of men and mount an expedition to the Middle East in pursuit of two slender clues. But the clues lead to two separate lines of to split in two. While one group, posing as an advance film unit, follows the perilous trail to the opium farm in the secret valley where the deadly poppy is grown, the other, back in Beirut, infiltrates by a means as ingenious as anything since the Trojan Horse the murderous organization which is planning to ‘export’ a hundred million dollars’ worth of heroin. Their two-pronged attack is complicated by an explosive political situation involving gun-running into Kurdistan, and by the need to rescue the infiltrators from a gang whose ruthlessness and high-powered organization are equalled only by the stakes for which they play. Desmond Bagley has produced as tense an adventure story as any he has written, set against the usual authentic and well-researched background which gives his novels their unique and ever-growing appeal

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

The old brass tray which had lain around the Devon farmhouse of the Wheales for centuries was considered of no account — until it was exhibited in a local museum and found to be of pure gold and of great archeological value. A photograph in the local paper started a rush of bidders from America. In the midst of the bidding came sudden, violent death. The tray was one of a pair, which together held the key to the Vivero Letter, written four hundred years before by a Spanish conquistador held captive in Yucatán by the fearsome Mayas. Ownership of the letter, which promises unimaginable riches to whoever can discover the secret of the twin trays, is disputed by two rival archaeologists. Spurred by the need to avenge a senseless murder, young Jeremy Wheale decides to take a hand. He persuades the archaeologists to join forces in a search for the lost Mayan city which Manuel de Vivero so glowingly described. Also seeking it, for the sake of the treasure it is alleged to contain, is a powerful underworld character who finds ready allies in the cut-throat convict labour force which roams the jungle armed with guns and machetes. In the ensuing clash amid the perils of the dense Mexican rain-forest in which a lost civilization lies hidden, Desmond Bagley employs all his outstanding narrative skill and authentic background knowledge to create a new high level in the thrilling adventure stories which have made him the best-seller he is

On a lush Caribbean island, a group of four men and two women find themselves caught between a hurricane and a revolution. Meteorologist David Wyatt knew the hurricane would hit. The West Indian natives were never wrong when they began tying down their roofs, regardless of what his tracking instruments showed. What Wyatt couldn’t forsee war the tumultuous conjunction of force — both natural and man-made — the was about to make Mabel his personal hurricane, one that would sweep his either to death or glory. Wyatt’s hurricane! It comes just as the island’s rebel leader, unaware of its approach, is massing his forces in the mountains for an attack on the city below. As the wind and the war near each other, Wyatt becomes the one person who can save the island from destruction, the inhabitants from death. To do it, he must beat a two-fold onslaught in a near-fatal race against time and terror — a tale of imaginative adventure and suspense

Опытному британскому разведчику поручают мелкую курьерскую миссию в Исландии. Но простое на первый взгляд дело оборачивается жестокой охотой на него, организованной советскими агентами

В 60–70 годы произведения английского писателя Десмонда Бэгли вышли по своим тиражам на одно из первых мест в мире. Каждый следующий роман Бэгли неизменно становился бестселлером, почти все они были экранизированы. Книги Бэгли продолжают широко переиздаваться во многих странах и по сей день, хотя в России творчество этого автора почти неизвестно. Десмонд Бэгли стал знаменитостью после выхода романа «Золотой киль» в 1963 году, и с тех пор его имя неизменно занимало первые строки на шкале читательской популярности. Мастерски построенная интрига, изобилующая неожиданными поворотами, яркий экзотический колорит, прекрасное владение слогом, мягкий юмор — вот далеко не полный перечень достоинств произведений Бэгли, одного из крупнейших мастеров современного авантюрного романа

В книгу вошли три романа известных европейских авторов. Содержание: Десмонд Бэгли. Знак конкистадора Сьюзен Ховач. Дьявольская секта Франсуаза Саган. Хранитель сердца

Британский агент получает задание выследить банду, организующую побеги из тюрьм для отбывающих долгий срок заключенных и убрать русского двойного агента, которого они освободили. След приводит его на Мальту, где он вступает в схватку с безжалостными убийцами

Дебютный роман мастера приключенческого триллера, основанный на подлинной истории о перевозке войсками СС ценностей Муссолини в Германию. Захватывающие подробности этой акции Бэгли впервые услышал в одном из баров Йоганессбурга

«ИСКАТЕЛЬ» — советский и российский литературный альманах. Издаётся с 1961 года. Публикует фантастические, приключенческие, детективные, военно-патриотические произведения, научно-популярные очерки и статьи. В 1961–1996 годах — литературное приложение к журналу «Вокруг света», с 1996 года — независимое издание. В 1961–1996 годах выходил шесть раз в год, в 1997–2002 годах — ежемесячно; с 2003 года выходит непериодически

Жиль Денисон был потрясен, когда, проснувшись, оно обнаружил, что находится в дорогом отеле в Осло, а из зеркала на него глядит незнакомец. Похищенный из своей квартиры в Лондоне, он превращен в знаменитого ученого, доктора Гарольда Фельтхэма Мейрика. Вынужденный привыкать к своей новой личности (включая знакомство с дочерью) и играть роль, навязанную ему похитителями, он отправляется в опасное путешествие из Норвегии в Финляндию, а оттдуда — в советскую Россию

Капанът е заложен. Заповедта е: «Хвани Слейд и „Бегълците“, но помни, че Слейд е по-важен!» Така започва новата смъртоносна задача на Оуен Станард… Една желязно законспирирана банда измъква от затвора престъпници с големи присъди. Сред тях е и известен двоен агент. Следите водят към Малта, където се укрива босът на организацията. Станард се изправя срещу безмилостни убийци, които нямат какво повече да губят. А смъртта му ще достави радост на твърде много хора

Творчество английского писателя Десмонда Бэгли (1923–1983) отличает динамичный сенсационный сюжет. Поведение героев в экстремальных ситуациях позволяет читателю оценить благородство и самопожертвование простых людей, их способность на самопожертвование во имя спасения жизни других людей

По странному стечению обстоятельств творчество английского писателя Десмонда Бэгли (1923 – 1983) долгое время оставалось неизвестным российской читающей публике. А между тем Бэгли является одним из основоположников современного западного авантюрного романа, и его имя пользуется поистине мировой славой. Будущий писатель родился в Англии в 1923 г., принимал участие во второй мировой войне, после окончания которой переехал в Африку и до выхода в 1963 г. своего первого романа "Золотой киль" вел жизнь, полную приключений, переменив множество занятий и в конце концов избрав профессию журналиста. "Золотой киль", ставший бестселлером, позволил Бэгли вместе с женой вернуться в Англию и заняться исключительно литературным трудом. В 60 – 70-х гг. тиражи книг Бэгли занимали одно из первых мест в мире, каждый его новый роман становился бестселлером и немедленно экранизировался, да и сейчас его книги продолжают переиздаваться во многих странах

Дочь киномагната Роберта Хеллиера погибает из-за передозировки наркотиков. Убитый горем отец, воспользовавшись своим влиянием и средствами, организовывает боевую операцию против наркобизнеса

С размеренной жизнью Джереми Уила было покончено в тот момент, когда он нашел труп своего брата, убитого киллером мафии, пытавшимся похитить фамильную драгоценность — золотой поднос, изготовленный в 16-м веке. Следы ведут Джереми из сельской тиши Девона в Мехико, а затем в дикие тропические леса Юкатана, где он помогает двум археолагам в поисках легендарной золотой сокровищницы Уашуанока — потерянного города Майя. На хвосте у Джереми сидят враги его брата и чиклерос — банда жестоких каторжников

Беда всегда приходит внезапно. Это только кажется, что, зная о грядущей катастрофе, встречаешь ее во всеоружии. Горы прекрасны. Величественным покоем веет от них