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.
Een invalide oorlogsvlieger ontvangt vlak voor zijn dood een radiobericht over een mislukte expeditie in Canada; zijn zoon gaat uitzoeken wat er achter de noodkreet schuilt.
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 5,000-ton freighter, Trikkala, outward bound in convoy from Murmansk, struck a mine in the early hours of March 5th, 1945, 300 miles from the nearest land. There were only eight survivors and she was listed as sunk. Yet over a year later the Trikkala radioed an S.O.S. as she was battering her way towards the Hebrides through the gale-swept waters of the Arctic Ocean. Why was this ghost ship still afloat? What had happened during the missing months? What is the sinister significance of only eight survivors from a ship that never sank?
