The Mangans, having fought on the losing side of the American War of Independence, sail to the Bahamas, where they settle and prosper. Several generations later, Tom Mangan is the affluent proprietor of a number of luxury hotels, whose future looks...
It is longer than a football pitch, weighs 550 tons, and moves at an average of five miles per hour. Its job - and that of company trouble-shooter, Neil Mannix - is to move a giant transformer across Nyala, an oil-rich African state. When Nyala...