The Golden Keel

Desmond Bagley! I love this guy's writing! I've always been a fan of Alistair Maclean. He's basically the old master of adventure-spy stories: Guns of Navarone, Black Shrike, Fear is the Key. Amazing, fun stuff. Anyway, I discovered Bagley much later in life. He's never had the name power of Maclean......more

Golden Keel Solid action packed story, easy to follow, with fleshed out characters Setting its about decade after the end of the second world war 3 ex soldiers come together to recover Nazi gold and jewels they buiried in the Italian mountains during the war. A raft of criminals and an arrogant smug......more

Book 10 of 2017 is The Golden Keel by Desmond Bagley. People often ask me how I find books from vast arrays of genres. The answer is that I go off recommendations from my friends. That is why GoodReads my primary reading discovery source. In the case of this book, I picked it up because Desmond Bagley......more

Rip roaring adventure story. Still holds up very well. In fact, it's better than most thrillers getting cranked out today as if they were cloned.......more

Published in 1963, this was Bagley's first thriller. Apart from a slightly pedestrian style at the very beginning as the scene is set, it sets the reader on a roller coaster ride of 'thrills' as a successful small businessman pulls together a team to recover gold and other goodies hidden in the war.......more