From its dramatic first scenes amid a fierce gale on the Channel, Hammond Innes' classic tale sustains the tension through the twists of a courtroom battle to a nail-biting finale on the high seas.
Hammond Innes (1913-1998) was a compulsive writer and traveller. He wrote over 30 books - thrillers with sturdy, plain-speaking British heroes at the centre; ordinary men caught up in impossible events. Innes journeyed all over the world, working as a journalist, whaler, soldier, but primarily sailing the high seas and racing in his yacht the Mary Deare. He turned all of his adventures into stories, and many of them were bestsellers.
A chap who writes books for other chaps gets a welcome
reissue...The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a cracker
*Irish Times*
Original in its plot and extraordinarily clever in its constant
succession of mysterious twists and surprising revelations, it is
an utterly engrossing tale
*New York Times*
The Wreck of the Mary Deare gave me a total love of thrillers and
Hammond Innes is an absolutely brilliant writer
*Minette Walters*
Hammond Innes… surely the doyen of the well-made modern
thriller
*Daily Telegraph*
They say people can’t write stories anymore. Tell that to Hammond
Innes
*Sunday Times*
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