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Wyatt's Hurricane

Desmond Bagley

  • 284 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1966
  • 27 editions
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1 About this book

Dave Wyatt is a West Indian meteorologist, working on the island of San Fernandez. When Dave carries out an airborne inspection of hurricane Mabel he develops a bad gut feeling. When he later sees a fellow West Indian tying down his roof he is sure. Dave must spread the word of the hurricane amidst disbelief, and in the middle of a war.

He could not have predicted the result in his wildest nightmares..

Good for readers who want: a thriller and adventure.

  • Thrillers
  • Caribbean area
  • Adventure

2 About Desmond Bagley

1923–1983

Desmond Bagley (29 October 1923 – 12 April 1983) was an English journalist and novelist known mainly for a series of bestselling thrillers. He and fellow British writers such as Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean set conventions for the genre: a tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary hero pitted against villains determined to sow destruction and chaos for their own ends.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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