Flyaway
Desmond Bagley
Having read it
★★★★★
A brilliant book with a really decent and believable adventure story that brought alive the spirit and endeavours of the plot’s protagonists, good and bad, through the story’s events and their own legacies and maladies.
A great read that, during its journey, you just wanted to find out how it ended and end well it did.
Top stuff.
A good passage
When I married Gloria I had not a bean to spare and, during my rise to the giddy heights of success, I had become aware of all the subtle variations in women’s knick-knackery from the cheap off-the-peg frock to the one-off Paris creation. Not that Gloria had spent much time in the lower reaches of the clothing spectrum – she developed a talent for spending. money faster than I earned it, which was one of the points at issue between us. But I knew enough to know that Alix Aarvik was not dressing like an heiress.
I took the chair she offered, and said, ‘Now tell me about Paul.’
A second good passage
I fell into a blind, mindless rhythm and a chant was created in my mind – what the Germans call an ‘earworm’ – something that goes round and round in your head and you can’t get rid of it. One bloody foot before the next bloody foot. One bloody dune after the next bloody dune. One bloody foot before the next bloody foot. One bloody dune after the next bloody dune. One bloody . . . It went on and on and on. . .
Maybe it helped me.