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The Trojan Horse

The Trojan Horse by Hammond Innes

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A thriller set in the 1940s, it concerns a lawyer's battle to prove the innocence of a German inventor who might be a murderer.
 
The Land God Gave to Cain

The Land God Gave to Cain by Hammond Innes

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An adventure novel which follows the hero on a perilous journey through the wastes of Labrador to the scene of a disaster that has overtaken a geological survey team, and which has links with events that took place in the same territory fifty years earlier. By the author of THE LONELY SKIER, CAMPBELL'S KINGDOM and...
 
Levkas Man

Levkas Man by Hammond Innes

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The strange love-hate relationship between a young man and the anthropologist who adopted him starts in Amsterdam and moves swiftly to Malta and the isles of Greece.
 
Solomon's Seal

Solomon's Seal by Hammond Innes

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A novel of sorcery, romance and intrigue, set in the exotic islands of the South Pacific. Roy Slingsby is sent to assess the property of the once powerful Holland family and in doing so unravels a history of dark secrets, thwarted ambitions and murder.
 
Golden Soak

Golden Soak by Hammond Innes

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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.
 
The Blue Ice

The Blue Ice by Hammond Innes

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From the author of THE LONELY SKIER, CAMPBELL'S KINGDOM and THE WHITE SOUTH, a thriller which tells of George Farnell's legacy, which 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 Bill Gansert into a maze of ambition and...
 
Isvik

Isvik by Hammond Innes

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Isvik's mission is to investigate the sinister findings of a glaciologist. Is there a "Ghost Ship" trapped in the Antacrtic ice? This novel is a study in the horrendous face of evil that takes the reader down into the Southern ice. The author also wrote "The Lonely Skier" and "The White South".
 
The White South

The White South by Hammond Innes

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The rescue of the whaling factory-ship 'Southern Cross' is abandoned when the polar ice becomes impenetrable The sailors who escape in two lifeboats face a fight with the pitiless forces of nature. By the author of ISVIK and TARGET ANTARCTICA.
 
The Strode Venturer

The Strode Venturer by Hammond Innes

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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.
 
Campbell's Kingdom

Campbell's Kingdom by Hammond Innes

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A thriller which tells of a man who finds himself the sole beneficiary of his grandfather's will and decides against the odds to take up the challenge set by his grandfather to find oil in the Rocky Mountains. From the author of THE LAND GODGAVE TO CAIN and THE LONELY SKIER.
 
The Black Tide

The Black Tide by Hammond Innes

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From the author of DELTA CONNECTION, THE LONELY SKIER, THE TROJAN HORSE and WRECKERS MUST BREATHE, a thriller about a woman who takes matters into her own hands when yet another ship carrying oil flounders on the rocks around Land's End, and she sets off to find the one man who knows the truth.
 
North Star

North Star by Hammond Innes

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A thriller in which a North Sea oil rig guard is pushed to the limits when a savage storm hits the platform, and one mans decision marks the turning point, starting a desperate battle for life. From the author of TARGET ANTARCTICA.
 
Wreckers Must Breathe

Wreckers Must Breathe by Hammond Innes

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A reissue of this thriller, which has been unavailable for two years. Set just before the Second World War, it tells the story of a journalist on holiday in Cornwall who is caught up in violence as the British fleet is threatened by German U-boats.
 
The Doomed Oasis

The Doomed Oasis by Hammond Innes

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From the author of DELTA CONNECTION, THE LONELY SKIER, THE TROJAN HORSE and WRECKERS MUST BREATHE, a thriller about two men who fight to save an oasis from the encroaching sands of the Empty Quarter.
 
Attack Alarm

Attack Alarm by Hammond Innes

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Begins in August 1940 at the start of the Blitz. The mass-formation attacks have started, and the call to action stations - "attack alarms" is a daily occurence. This novel offers an account of that long summer when only a handful of fighter planes could prevent a British defeat.
 
The Strange Land

The Strange Land by Hammond Innes

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A thriller from the author of THE LONELY SKIER. A man escapes to Morocco, hopeful of starting a new life. However, he soon discovers that three people are waiting for him: a smuggler-turned missionary; a grubby, corrupt entrpreneur; and a young woman from the past he believed he had fled.
 
The Last Voyage

The Last Voyage by Hammond Innes

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On 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook sailed from Plymouth in search of the North-West Passage. This is the story he might have written. The book is an imagined diary, showing a great seaman stretched to his limits.
 
Maddon's Rock

Maddon's Rock by Hammond Innes

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A sailor fights to clear his name after his ship sinks in the last days of World War II, taking its cargo of bullion to the bottom of the sea.
 
Air Bridge

Air Bridge by Hammond Innes

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To the people of Berlin in 1948, the airlift was a lifeline. But for Neil Fraser, Tubby Carter and Bill Saeton, it was even more. It was the one chance they had to get back into the air. But first they have to rebuild their machine as the crash seems to have killed their prospects forever.
 
The Lonely Skier

The Lonely Skier by Hammond Innes

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A thriller set in the 1940s, in which a scriptwriter finds his life in danger when he discovers a secret hoard of Nazi treasure buried in the Dolomites.
 
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