It is no ordinary juggernaut. Longer than a football pitch, weighing 550 tons, and moving at just five miles per hour, its job โ and that of troubleshooter Neil Mannix โ is to move a giant transformer across an oil-rich African state. But when Nyala erupts in civil war, Mannixโs juggernaut is at the centre of the conflict โ a target of ambush and threat, with no way to run and nowhere to hide...
Desmond Bagley was a multi-million-copy selling author of 16 adventure thrillers, all still in print. Moving to South Africa after WW2, his transition from unskilled printerโs apprentice, aircraft engineer, mine worker, nightclub photographer and radio scriptwriter to one of the worldโs most respected thriller writers is legendary, described by The Times as a โcraftsmanlike thriller novelistโ. Returning to the UK in the 1960s, he lived with his wife Joan in Devon and then on Guernsey, where a blue plaque was unveiled in his honour in 2018.