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By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


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By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577799
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577867
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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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By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It all begins with a lump of rock. 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 Farnell's footsteps to the source of the ore.


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By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9781448213528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577836
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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


(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The spectre of another world war haunts journalist Walter Craig and disturbs the peace of his seaside holiday. Craig and his singularly resourceful fisherman friend alone discover the terrible truth - a potentially devastating threat to Britains merchant ships - and alone must risk their lives against the might of the German navy.


(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDY MCNAB

He 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.


(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTON

It lies somewhere beneath the snow, high in the Dolomites: Nazi gold, tainted with the blood of murdered men. A tense battle of wits leads to an explosive finale in Innes classic tale of revenge and deadly greed.


(Paperback)

By: Hammond Innes

ISBN: 9780099577430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking.

But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be saved.