DESMOND BAGLEY
The Golden Keel
AND
The Vivero Letter
COPYRIGHT
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the authors imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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The Golden Keel first published in Great Britain by Collins 1963 The Vivero Letter first published in Great Britain by Collins 1968 Postscript first published in Great Britain by Collins 1979
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CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Praise
The Golden Keel
Dedication
Book One: The Men
Chapter One: Walker
Chapter Two: Coertze
Book Two: The Gold
Chapter Three: Tangier
Chapter Four: Francesca
Chapter Five: The Tunnel
Chapter Six: Metcalfe
Chapter Seven: The Golden Keel
Book Three: The Sea
Chapter Eight: Calm and Storm
Chapter Nine: Sanford
The Vivero Letter
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Keep Reading
Postscript
About the Author
By the Same Author
About the Publisher
THE GOLDEN KEELDEDICATION
For Joan who else?
BOOK ONE The MenONE: WALKER
My name is Peter Halloran, but everyone calls me Hal excepting my wife, Jean, who always called me Peter. Women seem to dislike nicknames for their menfolk. Like a lot of others I emigrated to the colonies after the war, and I travelled from England to South Africa by road, across the Sahara and through the Congo. It was a pretty rough trip, but thats another story; its enough to say that I arrived in Cape Town in 1948 with no job and precious little money.