The Black Tide and the Big Footprints
- 888 pages
- 32 hours of reading
Hammond Innes Book order
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.
- 2002
- 1996
Delta Connection
- 437 pages
- 16 hours of reading
The first killing occurs in Constantza, the Romanian seaport on the Black Sea, but the next death happens a world away. At the heart of this thriller is the search for a missing woman - Vikki, the beautiful, adopted daughter of a dissident journalist.
- 1994
Target Antarctica
- 432 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Small snag on jacket front, otherwise a nice copy.
- 1992
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.
- 1989
- 1988
Medusa
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
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? The author has written 27 novels including "The Lonely Skier" and "Campbell's Kingdom".
