Desmond Bagley · 2019 · thriller

Desmond Bagley's lost novel, written in 1972 and published in 2019 after the manuscript was found in an archive. An insurance investigator is sent to a Caribbean island to look at a large policy on a dead financier, and finds a widow nobody trusts, a police force with instructions, and an election that several people intend to settle with violence.

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   London

   Bill Kemp, ex-army and now investigating claims for a London insurer, is handed a file on a financier who has died conveniently at sea with a very large policy outstanding - and told to go and look at it in person.

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   Campanilla

   On the island he finds a widow the establishment has already decided about, a police chief taking direction from elsewhere, and an election in which both sides are arming - and a simple claim becomes something else.