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Wreckers Must Breathe

Hammond Innes

Vintage

2013

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The spectre of another world war haunts journalist Walter Craig and disturbs the peace of his seaside holiday. Craig and his singularly resourceful fisherman friend alone discover the terrible truth - a potentially devastating threat to Britainâ??s merchant ships - and alone must risk their lives against the might of the German navy.

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Campbell's Kingdom

Hammond Innes

Vintage

2013

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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. The old man was convinced, against all evidence, that there was oil in the Rocky mountains.

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Lonely Skier

Hammond Innes

Vintage

2013

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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 Innesâ?? classic tale of revenge and deadly greed.

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Wreck of the Mary Deare

Hammond Innes

Vintage

2013

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The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking. But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be saved.

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Maddon's Rock

Hammond Innes

Vintage

2013

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The story of the Trikkala is a strange one. Reported sunk in 1945, she sails into port one year later, barely afloat, her crew and valuable cargo missing. What happened during that year at sea? What secrets of betrayal and murderous greed were played out on the desolate islet of Maddon's Rock?

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Air Bridge

Hammond Innes

Vintage

2013

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The Soviets have cut off food and fuel supplies to West Berlin in a final attempt to force a stranglehold over the city. The Allied response is the Berlin airlift: thousands of planes carrying supplies - a lifeline to the people of the city.

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The Strode Venturer

Hammond Innes

Vintage Classics

2013

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What could link the slick world of London boardrooms, an isolated island race in the Maldives and the mysterious voyages of a battered ship skippered by a brooding alcoholic? It falls to Geoffrey Bailey to unlock the mystery, but first he must overcome both family tragedy and the unpredictable treacheries of land, sea and big business.

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Blue Ice

Hammond Innes

Vintage

2013

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It all begins with a lump of rock. The rock, an enticing hint at a rich, hidden supply of mineral ore, leads Gansert and team of men to Norway and to a glacial labyrinth of mountains, following in Farnell's footsteps to the source of the ore.

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Dead and Alive

Hammond Innes

Vintage Classics

2013

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When David Cunningham returns to the Cornish coast to mourn a wartime love affair, he little imagines the mysterious quest that awaits him: it will lead him to the Mediterranean, to danger and a life of adventure, to the dark world of racketeering in Naples, the bleak hills beyond Tivoli, and a woman with a tragic past.

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North Star

Hammond Innes

Vintage Classics

2013

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Michael Randall flees to the wild seas around the Shetlands to escape an impossible dilemma. There he finds a North Sea oil rig, and the unlikely possibility of a new life. But one stormy night, this glimmer of hope for the future, and Randall's life itself, is thrown into jeopardy.

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White South

Hammond Innes

Vintage

2013

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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?

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The Black Tide

Hammond Innes

Vintage Classics

2013

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Karen and Trevor have seen too many oil tankers run aground near Land's End, their poisonous cargo turning the waters black and suffocating all natural life for miles around. The Petros Jupiter is the latest devastating wreck, and tired of local committees that have no effect, Karen resolves on more drastic measures. It is left to her husband to unravel the tragedy and mystery that follow.

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Attack Alarm

Hammond Innes

Vintage Classics

2013

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Summer, 1940. The skies above Britain are criss-crossed with the white scars of dog-fights as fighter pilots clash with the merciless German Luftwaffe. But one air defence gunner suspects the greatest threat to his country's safety might not come from the air, but from a secret plot now unfolding around him on the ground. Can he convince anyone to listen to his fears? Will they hear him in time?

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Killer Mine

Hammond Innes

Vintage Classics

2013

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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.

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The Trojan Horse

Hammond Innes

Bloomsbury Reader

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 would endanger not only his own life, but also that of Schmidt’s beautiful daughter, Freya – now guardian of her father’s latest, and most revolutionary invention. Because there were some who would commit any crime to ensure that they alone held the key to all of Schmidt’s secrets…

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Tømmer

Hammond Innes

Lindhardt og Ringhof

2021

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Den rige mineejer Halliday forsvinder sporl st, kort tid efter han har ndret sit testamente. Hans advokat, Redfern, kan ikke sl sagen ud af hovedet og beslutter sig for selv at fors ge at opspore sin klient. Sporene f rer ham til en guldmine i Yukon i Canadas demark, hvor han afsl rer grusomme hemmeligheder, som hellere skulle v re forblevet skjult.

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