Neil Mannix have a mission in a westafrican country. His mission is to drive a trailer to a oilfield, but that is easier said than done. It start with tribe unrest and develop to a civil war. Mannix is in the middle of the problems.

The book is exciting and nice to read if you don't have other things to do. If you like action, this book could be worth a look.

I picked up Desmond Bagley after I last read him in school and had a hazy recollection that I had liked him then.
Reading him again just reminded me that my judgement had been corrrect.
This is fairly predictable yarn about a group of people who go after a stash of gold hidden during the war in rural Italy. They encounter various shady and not so shady characters on the way and how they eventually return home forms the crux of the tale.
With Desmond B. little can be expected in terms of character build up and psychological insights but it can be forgiven at the altar of a pacy read. After the main protoganist's wife (presumably beloved as their relationship is barely touched upon) is killed (rather conveniently) in a car accident, he enjoins a group of two to go and try to get the treasure.
He does meet up with a romantic interest but that i shandled with kid gloves. There is hardly any chemistry and though the book is in first person, the insights are restricted to the effects of planning. Of the cast a brutish Coertze is the one who comes closest to gaining our sympathy as his character at least shows some hint of a mystery.
Although you would still want to race to the end and find out how it all went.
Go ahead, pick it up but don't expect to come out of the experience a beter man.

Old-fashioned action thriller with one redeeming feature - a character sharing the same name as me! Pure co-incidence, of course. The Nick Warren in this book is a top British drug expert who finds himself on the trail of Iranian smugglers after an entertainment impressario's daughter is found dead in her own apartment after a heroin overdose, and vows revenge for her death. An oft-told tale unfortunately still set in the past with an old fashioned narrative and dialogue(does anyone really say OLD CHAP these days? Maybe in a Colin Forbes book . . .) which does not quite work now in print, but would certainly make a decent movie.

This is a book about drugs and traffickers. Desmond Bagley brings his own unique perspective into the picture. Totally different from the legalistic "Snow Tiger", this books pumps adrenaline all the way. But since the book was first published some 20 years ago, it does not have the social ambience to grip the reader in a vice hold. A good read anyway