Spoilers Audio Cassette – Audiobook, October 1, 1992

These are 2 dated adventure thrillers by well known and prolific best selling author Desmond Bagley. I have read almost all and have mostly enjoyed Bagley's works. The Spoilers is by far the worse. The plot is so ridiculously unrealistic that I could not read past the 5% point. The only reason I didn't rate this 1 star is that Bagley was a good author and this book, although not entertaining, was well written. Juggernaut is also well written and characterized, but the plot is much better. While this is not one of Bagley's best, I did find it somewhat entertaining. 3 of 5 stars

The Spoilers started slowly for me. It begins with the death of a British tycoon's daughter caused by a heroin overdose. Drug overdoses turn me off, personally. The story picked up speed as it went on and seemed believable enough. Using the cover of the advance party for shooting a movie, the tycoon sends a team of specialists into the Middle East to destroy a huge shipment of heroin that he has gotten wind of. The action picks up rapidly and I won't spoil it for anyone who enjoys a good action adventure read. Juggernaut is also action packed, but takes place in a fictitious oil-rich African country where westerners transporting heavy equipment to the oil field are caught up in a civil war. The juggernaut is the heavy duty platform which hauls a 300 ton transformer for a power plant at the oil field. When their way is blocked , they are forced to seek refuge in a neighboring country. The problem is getting to the border. I think I enjoyed this one more than The Spoilers, but again, it's two good reads for the price of one!

Desmond Bagley is a Grand-Master of the Adventure-Thriller Genre. As such, he stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of Alistair MacLean, Duncan Kyle, Helen MacInnis, and Hammond Innis. In a review of one of Bagley’s books, MacLean wrote, “He writes better than I do.” In these “two-fers” you get two great thrillers for the piece of one. A GREAT deal and a GREAT read!

I love Bagley having read him back in the 70s/80s. This series of "2 for" books is excellent value and the pairings make great sense. I would LOVE for Audible to create a paired audio version of these books.

have read these two books a long time ago liked Juggernaut better second time around the spoilers not so much. Running Blind And High Citadel are two of my all time favourite books

The Spoilers was a very good book and was realistic. However Juggernaut was hard to read and was not very realistic.

Good read must read in order.

I read these books 30+ years ago. This is the second time around.

A doctor a business mogul and an assorted bunch of good guys go after the drug barons in a story that's " tall " but believable andoverall a good story, not his best, but enjoyable for all that........it might be old fashioned, but it's good to see the bad guys get a bloody nose....Juggernaut, a story set in Africa, with the good guys in fairly plentiful supply, fighting whatever is thrown at them. A believable storythat cuts along at a decent pace and overall a decent enough story, worth the reading

Desmond Bagley was one of the best writers that you could wish to read, straight into the plot from the start and twists all the way through any of his books, not only these ones but any that he has written, my advice is get them all and read them, if you enjoy action adventure, Every book is different, hard to believe that the same auther has written them all ,The hours that must have been put into the writing of each book is unbelievable. As I have said read all his novels, you will not be disappointed.

I’ve yet to read this book it’s been a few years since I first read it so I’m looking forward to it

Although written over 40 years ago they could almost be current stories. Just need to remember that monetary values were somewhat different then and in the Spoilers. Iran was politically different from now. However a good exciting read. Desmond Bagley, in my view, is one of the best thriller writer of all time. I read his work in the 60's and 70's and enjoy reading them again 40 years later.

The Spoilers is real and racy...kept me hungry from beginning to end. Characters I could identify with and twists to keep me guessing.Juggernaut is a slow starter but gets up to pace and maintains it to the end. I feel I have met most of the characters at one time or another in real life and their interactions keep the plot on the boil.