Atlantic Fury (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Two brothers fight to save a group of soldiers on a rocky island in the Hebrides in this haunting adventure by an "exceptional" thriller master (TheGuardian).
The island of Laerg towers over the North Atlantic, a forbidding black rock with cliffs...
The island of Laerg towers over the North Atlantic, a forbidding black rock with cliffs...
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Two brothers fight to save a group of soldiers on a rocky island in the Hebrides in this haunting adventure by an "exceptional" thriller master (TheGuardian).
The island of Laerg towers over the North Atlantic, a forbidding black rock with cliffs impossible to climb, its farthest heights wreathed in fog. It's an inhospitable place, whose last residents were forcibly evacuated in the 1930s, but Donald Ross, the artist son of an islander, has spent his life imagining its rugged beauty. When he finally comes home, however, the isle of his dreams may become his tomb.
Donald is searching for his brother, Iain, believed lost at sea many years ago. He finds him living under an assumed identity at the British army outpost that now dominates Laerg. The weather soon turns sour, and the moment to evacuate draws near, but Iain delays. He's seeking something on the rocky cliffs, and to find it he will sacrifice his sanity, his men, and his soul.
Based on the Hebridean island of Hirta, Laerg is a truly unique creation-a place so real, so tantalizing, so utterly dangerous that readers will feel they have traveled there, to feel the salt wind at their backs and the bloody sand beneath their feet.
The island of Laerg towers over the North Atlantic, a forbidding black rock with cliffs impossible to climb, its farthest heights wreathed in fog. It's an inhospitable place, whose last residents were forcibly evacuated in the 1930s, but Donald Ross, the artist son of an islander, has spent his life imagining its rugged beauty. When he finally comes home, however, the isle of his dreams may become his tomb.
Donald is searching for his brother, Iain, believed lost at sea many years ago. He finds him living under an assumed identity at the British army outpost that now dominates Laerg. The weather soon turns sour, and the moment to evacuate draws near, but Iain delays. He's seeking something on the rocky cliffs, and to find it he will sacrifice his sanity, his men, and his soul.
Based on the Hebridean island of Hirta, Laerg is a truly unique creation-a place so real, so tantalizing, so utterly dangerous that readers will feel they have traveled there, to feel the salt wind at their backs and the bloody sand beneath their feet.
Autoren-Porträt von Hammond Innes
Hammond Innes (1913-1998) was the British author of over thirty novels, as well as children's and travel books. Born Ralph Hammond Innes in Horsham, Sussex, he was educated at the Cranbrook School in Kent. He left in 1931 to work as a journalist at the Financial News. The Doppelganger, his first novel, was published in 1937. Innes served in the Royal Artillery in World War II, eventually rising to the rank of major. A number of his books were published during the war, including Wreckers Must Breathe (1940), The Trojan Horse (1940), and Attack Alarm (1941), which was based on his experiences as an anti-aircraft gunner during the Battle of Britain.Following his demobilization in 1946, Innes worked full-time as a writer, achieving a number of early successes. His novels are notable for their fine attention to accurate detail in descriptions of place, such as Air Bridge (1951), which is set at RAF stations during the Berlin Airlift. Innes's protagonists were often not heroes in the typical sense, but ordinary men suddenly thrust into extreme situations by circumstance. Often, this involved being placed in a hostile environment-for example, the Arctic, the open sea, deserts-or unwittingly becoming involved in a larger conflict or conspiracy. Innes's protagonists are forced to rely on their own wits rather than the weapons and gadgetry commonly used by thriller writers. An experienced yachtsman, his great love and understanding of the sea was reflected in many of his novels.
Innes went on to produce books on a regular schedule of six months for travel and research followed by six months of writing. He continued to write until just before his death, his final novel being Delta Connection (1996). At his death, he left the bulk of his estate to the Association of Sea Training Organisations to enable others to experience sailing in the element he loved.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Hammond Innes
- 2016, 374 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
- ISBN-10: 1504040945
- ISBN-13: 9781504040945
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2016
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Pressezitat
Praise for Hammond Innes“Authentic and excellent . . . His plot, characters and suspense live up to the setting.” —San Francisco Chronicle on Air Bridge
“Great Britain’s leading adventure novelist.” —Financial Times
“Mr. Innes is a whale of a writer.” —The New York Times
“Hammond Innes was exceptional even within an exceptional breed. . . . A romantic adventurer in the style of Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling.” —The Guardian
“Hammond Innes deals magnificently with disaster.” —The Observer
“[Innes is] as solid as oak . . . you know him, you read him, you enjoy him.” —Kirkus Reviews on The Golden Soak
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