When Mark Trevelyan dies on a journey to a remote Pacific atoll, the verdict that it was natural causes doesnтАЩt convince his brother, Mike. The series of violent attacks that follows only adds to his suspicions. Just two clues тАУ a notebook in code and a lump of rock тАУ are enough to trigger off a hazardous expedition, and a violent confrontation far from civilization...
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 printerтАЩs apprentice, aircraft engineer, mine worker, nightclub photographer and radio scriptwriter to one of the worldтАЩs most respected thriller writers is legendary, described by The Times as a тАШcraftsmanlike thriller novelistтАЩ. 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.