The Big Footprints

The Big Footprints

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

In a bullet-scarred game lodge, Journalist Colin Tait waits to interview hunter turned conservationist, Cornelius van Delden. The occasion is the first wildlife conference after an African war. Van Delden's entrance triggers off a confrontation that takes Tait on a dramatic journey through Africa.
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Killer Mine

Killer Mine

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

Smuggled illegally into his native land after many years' absence, army deserter Jim Pryce finds himself deposited on a Cornish beach. Little does he suspect, setting out along the road to Penzance, that he is about to walk straight into a mine disaster, and into a story involving his own history.
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The Doomed Oasis

The Doomed Oasis

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

The story of two men and their fight to save an oasis from the encroaching sands of the Empty Quarter. The great desert of the Empty Quarter provides a backdrop to the tragic friction that develops between them.
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Golden Soak

Golden Soak

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

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.
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Atlantic Fury

Atlantic Fury

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

During the war, Iain Ross had been disgraced, and then drowned at sea or so his family believed. But a curious mission takes his brother Donald to the Hebrides to meet a Major Braddock, and he finds the man who was once his brother living a new life in a dead mans name. Braddock is running the evacuation of the army base on the remote, gale-swept island of Laerg. Winter is closing in, and he has his own reasons for wanting the army and Donald Ross off Laerg as quickly as possible, even in the face of a furious storm building out in the Atlantic. 
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The Last Voyage: Captain Cook's Lost Diary

The Last Voyage: Captain Cook's Lost Diary

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

In THE LAST VOYAGE, Hammond Innes imagines the private journal that Captain James Cook might have kept on the voyage that ended in his death in 1779. While trying to find a Northwest passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Cook's ship, the Resolution, was blocked by a massive ice wall along the Bering Strait. Cook successfully freed his ship, and planned another attempt for the following summer. Cook then returned to Hawaii, where he was killed by the islanders in a skirmish over a stolen boat.
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The Blue Ice

The Blue Ice

Hammond Innes

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 a team of men to Norway and to a glacial labyrinth of mountains, following in Farnell's footsteps to the source of the ore. But others have heard of the rock, and the wealth it promises, and are also hot on the trail...
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High Stand

High Stand

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

Why should mine-owner Halliday have changed his will? And why should he disappear? Redfern, his solicitor, realizes he must find the answers. His investigations lead him to a gold mine in Yukon and to the high stand of red cedars in the forests of British Columbia where deadly secrets lie.
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The Strange Land

The Strange Land

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

An adventure thriller from the renowoned author of Blue Ice, Killer Mine and Attack Alarm. 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.
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Levkas Man (Mystery)

Levkas Man (Mystery)

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

It was murder that made Paul Van der Voort return to his childhood home in Rotterdam after eight years at sea without once contacting Dr. Pieter Van der Voort, the man who had adopted him when he was ten years old
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Dead and Alive

Dead and Alive

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

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

The Strode Venturer

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

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

Campbell's Kingdom

Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes

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. So his grandson sets off to a godforsaken town of shattered hopes and bitter old men, and plunges into a perilous battle against hostile country, powerful enemies and a ticking clock.
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