by Desmond Bagley · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194791380
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«Wyatt's Hurricane» is the suspense novel by Desmond Bagley adapted to level 3 of Oxford Bookworms Library (paperback, 80 pages, in English).
Meteorologist David Wyatt works on the island of San Fernández. After flying over Hurricane Mabel, he believes the island is in danger, but no one listens to his warning. When war breaks out and the storm threatens winds of over 250 kilometres per hour and a tidal wave that would flood the capital, Wyatt tries to avert the catastrophe.
Adaptation by Jennifer Bassett for Oxford Bookworms Library, level 3 (1000-word vocabulary); published in 2008.
Recommended reading for intermediate-level English students, aged 14 and up.
Desmond Bagley was an English journalist and novelist known mainly for a series of bestselling thrillers. He and fellow British writers such as Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean set conventions for the genre: a tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary hero pitted against villains determined to sow destruction and chaos for their own ends.
