Ralph Hammond Innes was een productieve Engelse auteur wiens thrillers vaak gewone mannen in extreme situaties plaatsten. Zijn werken werden gekenmerkt door nauwgezette verkenningen van omgevingen, van arctische wildernissen tot de gevaren van de open zee, waarbij protagonisten gedwongen werden te vertrouwen op hun verstand in plaats van op brute kracht. Innes verkende regelmatig thema's die verband hielden met maritieme gebeurtenissen en ontwikkelde later een interesse in ecologische onderwerpen. Zijn vermogen om spannende verhalen te creëren uit alledaagse omstandigheden maakte hem tot een opmerkelijk figuur in het thrillergenre.
Neil Blair is relishing an expenses-paid holiday in the Italian Dolomites, where he plans to finish his film script. All goes wrong, however, when he stumbles on the location of a hoard of buried Nazi gold. From then on, he faces a terrifying race for his life from a group of murderous criminals.
For the stranger, Morocco was the last refuge. Here he hoped to build a new life for himself. But three people were waiting for him: Latham, a smuggler turned missionary; Kostos, a man with his grubby fingers in everything illegal; and a girl from his own mysterious past. The answers he sought would be found out among the Berbers residing between the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara...
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.
The author takes the reader on a personal tour of the eastern counties of Britain: Suffolk, Norfolk, northern Essex and eastern Cambridgeshire. He describes the history of East Anglia through the people, the towns, the inns and landscape of this part of England.
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.
Bruce Campbell Wetheral has apparently no future, but suddenly finds himself the sole beneficiary under his grandfather's will. Stuart Campbell had been an aggressive and obstinate old man convinced that oil could be found in the Rocky Mountains. Now his grandson decides to take up the challenge. But time is against him -- the time to live, the time to vindicate his grandfather's obsession, and time to save the land itself from impending disaster.
Decimated by drought and poacher's bullets, the last of Africa's majestic elephants face extinction. They are pursued by a "great white hunter" who relies on modern technology to process them as food for the starving natives. He is opposed by his former partner who is determined that the beasts shall not pay the price for man's inability to manage his resources wisely. "Hammond Innes shows great depth of understanding of the complex strands that make up the ecology of a region." (Best Sellers)
