Hammond Innes

"Novel of an obsolete ocean freighter, a veteran of both World Wars, and of Gideon Patch, the ship's mate. Published serially as 'The Mary Deare.'" --

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 the chance of a lifetime. He meets an old army buddy, a half-con man half-genius film producer, who offers him a job. Suddenly, Blair is off to the Dolomites for three months to work on the script for a...

After losing his fortune, a once successful mining director leaves England to begin again in the rich mining country of Australia.

"Quiet Welsh solicitor goest to the Middle East on business and finds himself plunged into the violence and intrigue of a great struggle for oil." (From the book cover).

For three weeks, Cpl. James Landon Vardy has waited in Murmansk, a frozen northern port of the Soviet Union, hoping a ship will come to take him home. He's British, in Russia to help with the war effort, and as he shivers in the icy port, he dreams of spring in England. Finally, a miracle-a ship. But when Vardy boards the Trikkala, he has no idea he's stepping into hell. From the first day, Vardy senses the Trikkala is doomed. Her officers are drunk,...

A Scotsman and his crew search the ice for a ghost ship off the frozen coast of Antarctica in this chilling adventure novel. Isvik has been swallowed by the ice. It sits on the lip of Antarctica, its masts severed, its helmsman frozen to the wheel. Two hundred years old-at least-it's an impossible vessel, a ghost ship, and before its secrets are revealed, it will cause more men to die . . . The description of Isvik is found in the pocket of a scientist...

A trio of compelling classics of adventure and suspense-featuring The Wreck of the Mary Deare-from "Great Britain's leading adventure novelist" (Financial Times). British novelist Hammond Innes was perhaps best known for his nautical mystery, The Wreck of the Mary Deare, which was made into a film starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston. But the prolific writer, World War II veteran, and dedicated yachtsman wrote over thirty novels of adventure and...

British novelist Hammond Innes was perhaps best known for his nautical mystery, The Wreck of the Mary Deare, which was made into a film starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston. But the prolific writer, World War II veteran, and dedicated yachtsman wrote over thirty novels of adventure and suspense during his long career. The collected fiction gathered here follows three very different quests and spans the locales of Western Australia, the North Sea,...

North Star is an old rig, too old for the appalling weather in the North Sea. The massive environmental damage its destruction could cause would be unthinkable. Why would anyone think of sabotaging it?