The Scarperers, a brilliantly organised gang which gets long-term inmates out of prison, spring a notorious Russian double agent. The trail leads Owen Stannard to Malta, and to the suave killer masterminding the gang. Face to face at last with his opponents, Stannard must try to outwit both men โ who have nothing to lose and everything to gain by his death...
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.