LIBROS DEL AUTOR: hammond innes

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  • The Blue Ice
    Hammond Innes
    It all begins with a lump of rock. To Bill Gansert it seems a message from beyond the grave; the legacy of his one-time colleague George Farnell who disappeared in a storm of mystery and suspicion ten years ago. 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 Farne...
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    22,59 €

  • The Trojan Horse
    Hammond Innes
    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 r...
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    19,79 €

  • Maddons Rock
    Hammond Innes
    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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    22,66 €

  • Air Bridge
    Hammond Innes
    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. A chance for heroism perhaps but not for Neil Fraser or Bill Saeton. One is an ex-RAF pilot on the run from the law the other will stop ...
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    22,45 €

  • The Strode Venturer
    Hammond Innes
    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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    22,46 €

  • Dead and Alive
    Hammond Innes
    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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    18,30 €

  • North Star
    Hammond Innes
    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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    17,66 €

  • The White South
    Hammond Innes
    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? Marooned amidst the pitiless frozen wastes the crew of the Southern Cross make a desperate attempt to survive against the odds. ...
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    22,33 €

  • The Black Tide
    Hammond Innes
    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 ...
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    22,27 €

  • Attack Alarm
    Hammond Innes
    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...
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    22,66 €

  • Killer Mine
    Hammond Innes
    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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    22,59 €

  • Wreckers Must Breathe
    Hammond Innes
    The spectre of another world war haunts journalist Walter Craig and disturbs the peace of his seaside holiday. But below the Cornish cliffs hidden by churning seas the enemy is very real indeed and much closer than anyone could suspect. Craig and his singularly resourceful fisherman friend alone discover the terrible truth - a potentially devastating threat to Britain’s merc...
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    23,96 €