The Wilby Conspiracy

1972

Blurb from Popular Library edition:

Your name is James Keogh and your life is in the hands of:

--A lovely woman torn between love for you and loyalty to a former love.

--The man who was once her husband and now wants her back.

--A black escapee on the run who needs you as much as you need him.

--An Indian merchant who offers you a devil's bargain for a fabulous cache of diamonds.

--A sadistic secret policeman who wants to turn you into an instrument of murder.

--And a mysterious revolutionary leader named Wilby . . .

THE WILBY CONSPIRACY

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Blurb from Panther edition:

Jim Keogh is running for his life, from an enemy he's never seen, and for a reason he never even suspects . . .

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The Million Copy Bestseller

Now a Sensational Movie

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"Hair-raising . . . explosive . . . even trickier and more polished than THE ODESSA FILE!"

--New York Times

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"The setting is South Africa; the headlong action moves from Cape Town to Johannesburg to the bush, in a high-tension game of political intrigue. . . . The plot is gripping and superbly ingenious. . . . Beats Le Carre and all the rest at their own game!"

--New York Magazine

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"A Slam-bang winner!"

--Saturday Review

"Has you at its mercy all the way!"

--New Yorker

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"Looks like a real winner. . . . You'll be entertained and intrigued  every step of the way until the totally unexpected finale."

--Publishers Weekly

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"No doubt about it at all, this is a real thriller writer who knows how to write with three-dimensional physical force. Set in South Africa where a mining engineer clobbers a South African policeman and finds himself drawn into a nightmare journey with a fleeing black, the book powers its way through murders, stolen diamonds, bludgeonings, a hair-raising plane chase, and a fantastic episode down an abandoned mine. A tightly-plotted scenario of treachery, blind-man's buff and hair-raising authentic background, makes this an all-action spellbinder."

--The Scotsman

"Convincingly set in the great outdoors of southern Africa, this is a powerful yarn in the Hammond Innes tradition. It grabbed me on page one and kept going."

--Len Deighton

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"The best chase story I have read in a long time!"

--Eric Ambler

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"A first-rate, high-powered thriller."

--Desmond Bagley

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"Welcome to a new thriller master, a writer who knows how to build up tension and keep a story moving at top speed. Best of all his hero is believable. Though tough, he's no superman and he can be shocked and frightened. Other thriller writers, please note."

--John Braine

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"Driscoll is a thriller writer who holds you. The novel gives a splendid feeling for the country and the people, black and white, who live in it."

--Lady Antonia Fraser