Hammond Innes Books

For the stranger, Morocco was the last refuge. Here he hoped to build a new life for himself. But three people were waiting for him: Latham, a smuggler turned missionary; Kostos, a man with his grubby fingers in everything illegal; and a girl from his own mysterious past. The answers he sought would be found out among the Berbers residing between the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara...

A thriller about a man who takes on the task of finding the 'black sheep' of a family of wealthy shipowners, and is plunged into a nightmare world where he must face the dangers of coral reefs, remote islands and financial warfare. From the author of ISVIK and TARGET ANTARCTICA.

The author takes the reader on a personal tour of the eastern counties of Britain: Suffolk, Norfolk, northern Essex and eastern Cambridgeshire. He describes the history of East Anglia through the people, the towns, the inns and landscape of this part of England.

The 5,000-ton freighter, Trikkala, outward bound in convoy from Murmansk, struck a mine in the early hours of March 5th, 1945, 300 miles from the nearest land. There were only eight survivors and she was listed as sunk. Yet over a year later the Trikkala radioed an S.O.S. as she was battering her way towards the Hebrides through the gale-swept waters of the Arctic Ocean. Why was this ghost ship still afloat? What had happened during the missing months? What is the sinister significance of only eight survivors from a ship that never sank?

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDY MCNABHe was a man without hope, until a lawyer and a crazy inheritance spurred him to one last desperate roll of the dice. So his grandson sets off to a godforsaken town of shattered hopes and bitter old men, and plunges into a perilous battle against hostile country, powerful enemies and a ticking clock.

Decimated by drought and poacher's bullets, the last of Africa's majestic elephants face extinction. They are pursued by a "great white hunter" who relies on modern technology to process them as food for the starving natives. He is opposed by his former partner who is determined that the beasts shall not pay the price for man's inability to manage his resources wisely. "Hammond Innes shows great depth of understanding of the complex strands that make up the ecology of a region." (Best Sellers)

George Farnell's legacy came to light ten years after his disappearance. Two lines of poetry and a lump of mineral ore were all he left. Yet they were enough to send mineral expert, Bill Gansert, to Norway. But word of Farnell's findings had already leaked out -- and Gansert found himself caught in a maze of ambition and treachery with roots lying deep in years of German occupation.

The sedate life of Trevor Rodin and his wife, living along the Cornish coast, is brought to a sudden end when an oil tanker runs aground, causing a spill that leads to the death of Rodin's wife, Karen. Trevor then enlists on a quest for revenge that carries him to the Persian Gulf, Gibraltar, and the islands of Madeira. Along the way, he uncovers a terrorist plot to join with environmental extremists and create an unprecedented ecological disaster.

A beautiful young heiress, Perenna Holland, falls on hard times. She enlists Roy Slingsby, estate agent and bon vivant, to sell the family manse. Once into the assignment, he uncovers an album of stamps with a singular story to tell. Slingsby sets out to trace its origin. He joins a ship where the cargo is contraband, sails to an island seething with rebellion and finds the stamps are tied to a dark secret in Perenna's family. How will she take this information? "With all the power, suspense and authenticity that has attracted millions of readers to his work, SOLOMONS SEAL is a stirring novel of adventure in the grand manner of Hammond Innes." (Publisher's Source)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTONIt lies somewhere beneath the snow, high in the Dolomites: Nazi gold, tainted with the blood of murdered men. A tense battle of wits leads to an explosive finale in Innes' classic tale of revenge and deadly greed.

HMS Medusa is an obsolete frigate with an ill-assorted crew and an insecure captain. Why has she been dispatched under secret orders to be a sitting duck in one of the most vital ports of the Mediterranean? Drawn into a close involvement with the Medusa's captain, Gareth Lloyd Jones, ex-adventurer Mike Steele begins a dangerous quest for answers. As past and present combine in a series of violent events, Steele finds himself at the centre of an international crisis to which only Lloyd Jones and the Medusa hold the key.

It was murder that made Paul Van der Voort return to his childhood home in Rotterdam after eight years at sea without once contacting Dr. Pieter Van der Voort, the man who had adopted him when he was ten years old

Charles Whitaker is a Welshman who forsakes his native country for the deserts of Araby. Adapting quickly to this hostile terrain, he soon becomes more Bedouin than British. Whitaker's illegtimate son, David, sets out to find his father. He in turn is followed by a Welsh solicitor who hopes to reunite the two men. The story moves at two levels: One involves a desperate struggle for desert oil; the second, hardly less intense, for father and son to find each other. Both struggles are resolved at Saraifa, the doomed oasis of the title.

Small snag on jacket front, otherwise a nice copy.

Andrew Kilmartin was a quietly respectable lawyer until the day a wanted killer forced his way into his office. Against all the odds, Kilmartin believed Franz Schmidt was innocent, but it was a belief which would endanger not only Kilmartin but also Schmidt's daughter Freya.

An ex-Naval officer salvages a landing craft from the rocks of a Cornish cove, and sails it to Italy, straight into a chaotic world of post-war rackets and smuggling.

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 where is her kingdom?

The last scribbled notes of a glaciologist found frozen to death on the shifting ice of the Weddell Sea become the fragile clues to a gruesome mystery, shrouded from the world by the ice and storms of Antarctica.

A story of the Battle of Britain written while the guns were firing. Suddenly the scream of a diving plane sounded above the din of the action. For a second I was at a loss to know where it came from. Then I saw it. Just north of the drome it was, falling perpendicularly, it's engines flat out. It dived out of control behind some trees and I saw the spout of earth and smoke it shot up. I felt slightly sick. I could imagine some poor devil fighting at the controls and then desperately trying to pull back a hood that had been jammed. It was as though I had been shown in a dream what was going to happen. And then came the crash...

From the author of TARGET ANTARCTICA and ISVIK, a story of a man who fakes his own death and starts out for a new life prospecting for gold in Australia, only to find that he is not the only person with an interest in the derelict Golden Soak mine.

During the war, Iain Ross had been disgraced, and then drowned at sea -- or so his family believed. But a curious mission takes his brother Donald to the Hebrides to meet a Major Braddock, and he finds the man who was once his brother living a new life in a dead man's name. Braddock is running the evacuation of the army base on the remote, gale-swept island of Laerg. Winter is closing in, and he has his own reasons for wanting the army -- and Donald Ross -- off Laerg as quickly as possible, even in the face of a furious storm building out in the Atlantic.

When Jim Pryce, a deserter from the army, returns secretly to his native Cornwall, he finds the coast cold and unfriendly. He is soon plunged into a hazardous world of crooks,contraband, madness and mysteries underneath the rocky cliffs.

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 the pitiless, frozen wastes, the crew of the Southern Cross make a desperate attempt to survive against the odds.

The author takes the reader on a personal tour of the eastern counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, northern Essex and eastern Cambridgeshire. He describes the history of East Anglia through the people, the towns, the inns and landscape of this part of England.

Hoe kan een man zo bezeten zijn van de minerale rijkdommen die hij op het spoor is, dat hij daaraan alles opoffert, zelfs zijn liefde voor een vrouw? Op deze vraag geeft Hammond Innes antwoord in dit meeslepende boek, dat de lezer verplaatst naar de verlaten bergen in het hartje van Noorwegen en dat hem opneemt in een avontuurlijk en gevaarlijk bestaan.

Een naar Engeland uitgeweken joodse ingenieur houdt zich bezig met de ontwikkeling van een verbeterde dieselmotor die van doorslaggevende betekenis zou kunnen worden voor het verloop van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Een Engelse en een Amerikaanse journalist volgen de dramatische strijd tussen twee mannen die dwars door Afrika trekken om hun plannen ten aanzien van de laatst overgebleven olifanten uit te voeren.

Sheila/Die verlorene Oase/Grosser Wind - kleiner Wind/Reflex - bk617; Verlag "Das Beste"; Torey L. Hayden/Hammond Innes/Alice Ekert Rotholz/Dick Francis; Paperback; 1983

Verslag van de geheimzinnige, dramatische gebeurtenissen rond een vrachtboot, die op de bodem van Het Kanaal terecht kwam.

De gezagvoerder van een sleepboot die de geheimzinnige dood van de bevelhebber van een walvisvaarder moet onderzoeken komt op het barre zuidpoolijs oog in oog te staan met diens moordenaar.

Verhaal, dat zich hoofdzakelijk afspeelt op de Shetland-eilanden en op een booreiland in de Noordzee, over een man die een nieuw leven wil beginnen.

Een Britse mijningenieur probeert in Australië een nieuw bestaan op te bouwen en raakt verzeild in diverse moeilijke situaties.

Een invalide oud-oorlogsvlieger raakt betrokken bij een spionagekomplot en raakt ook nog in levensgevaar door een uitbarsting van de vulkaan Vesuvius.

Een vrouw roept de hulp in van haar advocaat en vriend als haar man wordt vermist.

Een zendeling raakt tegen zijn zin betrokken bij de deels politieke strijd om de eigendomsrechten van een stuk grond in Marokko.

Een invalide oorlogsvlieger ontvangt vlak voor zijn dood een radiobericht over een mislukte expeditie in Canada; zijn zoon gaat uitzoeken wat er achter de noodkreet schuilt.

L’Homme de Leucade est l’histoire de la fantastique découverte du docteur Van der Voort et de l’étrange relation tissée d’amour et de haine qui le lie à son fils Paul, officier de marine à la vie sans problèmes, sur lequel le vieux savant exerce une fascination fatale. Méconnu par le monde universitaire, à bout de forces, traqué par les Services Secrets grecs qui le prennent pour un agent communiste, le démoniaque docteur s’enfonce dans les entrailles volcaniques de la Grèce à la recherche du premier sanctuaire de l’homme, ce tueur. Il y a quelque chose qui rappelle le western dans ce sombre best-seller d’Hammond Innes. Et au-delà du western, au-delà des lieux et des temps, en filigrane, la même antique tragédie qui ne cesse de se jouer depuis des millénaires