Hammond Innes Books
July 15, 1913 – June 10, 1998
Ralph Hammond Innes was a prolific English author whose thrillers often featured ordinary men thrust into extreme situations. His works were marked by meticulous explorations of environments, from arctic wastes to the perils of the open sea, with protagonists forced to rely on their wits rather than brute force. Innes frequently explored themes connected to maritime events and later developed an interest in ecological subjects. His ability to craft suspenseful narratives from common circumstances made him a notable figure in the thriller genre.
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?
Campbell's Kingdom
- 387 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Bruce Campbell Wetheral has apparently no future, but suddenly finds himself the sole beneficiary under his grandfather's will. Stuart Campbell had been an aggressive and obstinate old man convinced that oil could be found in the Rocky Mountains. Now his grandson decides to take up the challenge. But time is against him -- the time to live, the time to vindicate his grandfather's obsession, and time to save the land itself from impending disaster.
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 Black Tide
- 347 pages
- 13 hours of reading
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.
