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2 unusual facts about Desmond Bagley


Brian Callison

A Plague of Sailors and its sequel A Frenzy of Merchantmen, along with A Web of Salvage and Spearfish, are straightforward present-day thrillers similar to the work of Desmond Bagley and Hammond Innes.

Punt gun

Desmond Bagley's 1973 thriller The Tightrope Men features a percussion-fired punt gun.


Tomorrow series

To do this Marsden looked to the authors he had read most avidly as a teenager, thriller writers such as Ian Fleming, Desmond Bagley, John Buchan, Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean.


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