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Hammond Innes
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Hammond Innes was born in Sussex in 1913. He was the author of thirty international bestsellers, all reissued by Pan. He also wrote a superb history of the Conquistadors, two books of his world travels and sailing, and an evocative illustrated book on East Anglia. It was in the early fifties, with books like The Lonely Skier, Campbells Kingdom, The White South and The Wreck of the Mary Deare, all of them filmed, that he achieved international fame.
Hammond Innes died in June 1998.
Book List in Order: 33 titles
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Atlantic Fury
- May-1966
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Two brothers fight to save a group of soldiers on a rocky island in the Hebrides in this haunting adventure by an “exceptional” thriller master (TheGuardian). The island of Laerg towers over the North Atlantic, a forbidding black rock with cliffs...
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North Star
- Feb-1977
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A thriller in which a North Sea oil rig guard is pushed to the limits when a savage storm hits the platform, and one mans decision marks the turning point, starting a desperate battle for life. From the author of TARGET ANTARCTICA....
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The Big Footprints
- Apr-1977
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In a bullet-scarred game lodge, Colin Tait, a journalist, waits to interview hunter turned conservationist Cornelius van Delden.The occasion is the first wildlife conference after a Black African war. Van Delden's dramatic entrance triggers off a co...
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The Doomed Oasis
- Oct-1978
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A sweeping adventure set in the Arabian Desert, where the shadow of British colonialism threatens to destroy a father and son. Three years ago, nineteen-year-old David Thomas beat his father to death. Actually, David only punched the old man, but it ...
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Air Bridge
- Feb-1979
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A daredevil pilot joins the Berlin Airlift to fight for democracy in this Cold War adventure from “a whale of a writer” (The New York Times). When his plane goes down over Germany, Neil Fraser vows not to die in a POW camp. He tunnels out beneath...
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Solomon's Seal
- 1980
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'It was a weapon fashioned by somebody with experience and understanding of a deadly primitive craft, and the red paint on the tip could be nothing else but a simulation of the blood of the intended victim. The masked doll and the weapon, the two...
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The Black Tide
- Jan-1983
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The Petros Jupiter lies on the rocks, her tanks ripped open and the seas all around her heavy and dark with the pollution leaking out of her. Living in their tiny cottage on the cliffs by Land's End, Trevor Rodin and his wife Karen have seen it all b...
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The Blue Ice
- Mar-1985
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A ruthless fortune hunter sails to Norway to unlock the mystery of the Blue Ice in this sweeping adventure at the edge of the world. Bill Gansert thrived during World War II. An industrial genius, he mobilized millions of men and machines for the fig...
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The Survivors
- Mar-1985
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A floating iceberg was the life raft for those who were left alive. Remnants of crew and passengers, facing brutal cold, starvation -- and a killer in their midst. The chief officer of The Southern Cross was not a suicide. His killer would gamble all...
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Land God Gave to Cain
- Nov-1985
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A young man battles the odds to rescue a lost explorer on Canada’s remote Labrador Peninsula in this “literate and exciting adventure story” (Kirkus Reviews). Radio operator James Ferguson was seriously wounded in a bombing mission during Worl...
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Campbell's Kingdom
- Jul-1986
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A daring young man heads to the oil fields of Canada for a last crack at making his fortune in this tale from “Great Britain’s leading adventure novelist” (Financial Times). Adrift since the end of World War II, Bruce Weatherall has wasted year...
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The Delta Connection
- Jun-1997
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At the heart of this thriller is the search for a missing woman, Vikki, the beautiful adopted daughter of a Romanian dissident. She escapes to reclaim her birthright in the Himalayan mountains. Vikki has always claimed to be a sultan's daughter, but ...
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
- Apr-1999
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They dismissed the Mary Deare as ‘a piece of leaking ironmongery taken off the junk heap’. For 40 years this 6,000-ton freighter had tramped the seas, suffered shipwreck twice, and been torpedoed three times in two world wars. Then one...
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The Angry Mountain
- Oct-2001
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Dick Farrell is a man haunted by his wartime memories of torture and fear - a time better forgotten. But past and present merge when a trip to Eastern Europe embroils him in the twilight world of the industrial spy. Farrell becomes a reluctant player...
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The Trojan Horse
- Jan-2013
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Andrew Kilmartin was a quietly respectable lawyer working in the City of London. Until the day a wanted killer forced a way into his office.
Against all the odds, Kilmartin believed that Franz Schmidt was innocent. But it was a belief that... -
The Land That God Gave to Cain
- Jul-2016
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Ian Ferguson alone held the key to the disaster that had overtaken a geological survey team more than 2,000 miles away. What drove him now to make the perilous journey through the savage, lonely wastes of Labrador to the scene of the disaster? And wh...
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The White South
- Jul-2016
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A 22,000-ton whaling ship steams into a broken plain of white, glimmering ice during the howling fury of an Antarctic gale. What madness drives the ship forwards, deeper and deeper into the ice until its jagged edges hold her fast? Marooned amidst th...
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Wreckers Must Breathe
- Oct-2016
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A reporter discovers a German U-boat -- and a plot to seize the English coast -- in this thrilling World War II adventure novel. The Cornish coast is wrecker’s country. Mile after mile of jagged rock means certain death for passing ships -- and unt...
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The Golden Soak
- Nov-2016
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An unscrupulous miner lies, cheats, and steals to survive in this rollicking adventure set in Western Australia. Alec Falls is a mining man, and on his honeymoon, he made the strike of his dreams: a long, beautiful seam of tin, just waiting to be rip...
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Maddon's Rock
- Nov-2016
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The chilling story of desperate men on a doomed ship during World War II from “Great Britain’s leading adventure novelist” (Financial Times). For three weeks, Cpl. James Landon Vardy has waited in Murmansk, a frozen northern port of the Soviet ...
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Dead and Alive
Great Britain's leading adventure novelist FINANCIAL TIMES In just two months, ex-Naval officer David Cunningham turned the wreck of an old landing craft, found stranded in a Cornish cove, into a vessel any skipper would be proud of. Then came the re...
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High Stand
When Tom Halliday--the playboy owner of an invaluable stand of red cedar timber--changes his will and suddenly disappears, Philip Redfern, Halliday's English solicitor, sets off for the Pacific Northwest to investigate the estate...
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Levkas Man
The tale of an archaeological dig gone terribly wrong from “Great Britain’s leading adventure novelist” (Financial Times). When his parents died, Paul was sent to Amsterdam to live with his mother’s old lover, the eccentric archaeologist Pie...
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The Lonely Skier
High among the Dolomite Mountains, a film crew led by a madman will risk their lives for Nazi gold, in this death-defying thriller. Out of work, out of money, and out of time, Neil Blair is wandering through Piccadilly Circus when he stumbles upon th...
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The Strange Land
A thriller from the author of THE LONELY SKIER. A man escapes to Morocco, hopeful of starting a new life. However, he soon discovers that three people are waiting for him: a smuggler-turned missionary; a grubby, corrupt entrpreneur; and a young wo...
