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    Windfall
    Windfall
    Windfall
    Audiobook11 hours

    Windfall

    Written by Desmond Bagley

    Narrated by Paul Tyreman

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    About this audiobook

    Action thriller by the classic adventure writer about security consultant, Max Stafford, set in Kenya.

    When a legacy of £40 million is left to a small college in Kenya, investigations begin about the true identities of the heirs – the South African, Dirk Hendriks, and his namesake, Henry Hendrix from California. Suspicion that Hendrix is an impostor leads Max Stafford to the Rift Valley, where a violent reaction to his arrival points to a sinister and far-reaching conspiracy far beyond mere greed…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 15, 2018
    ISBN9780008216184
    Windfall
    Author

    Desmond Bagley

    Desmond Bagley was born in 1923 in Kendal and brought up in Blackpool, beginning his working life, aged 14, in the printing industry. He wrote 16 novels, becoming one of the world's top-selling authors, with his books translated into more than 30 languages. He died in 1983.

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    • 3/5
      This has a good plot which keeps you guessing until the end. There isn't much too the characters, but it's a good old-fashioned adventure.
    • 4/5
      The 2nd of the Max Stafford adventures, once again Alix Hendrix is in trouble. A strange american has arrived on her doorstep with an odd tale and she doesn't quite know what to do. Max is in need of a holiday again and so agrees to look inot the matter which takes him out to Kenya.It turns out that an old Belgium man has died and let her husband part of a large fortune. The rest goes to an unkown cousin and a small agricultural research facility in Kenya. An odd stipulation includes the proviso that all recipients must spend some time working at the facility. Meanwhile the other cousin has been found by Gunnerson Associates - a known rival to Max's own organisation. With the help of some friends of his butler ex-marine Curtis who didn't appear in the previous book it all slowly begins to make sense.