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The Last Voyage - Hammond Innes


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The Last Voyage - Hammond Innes

 
Description: ISBN 0330342177 / Author: Hammond Innes / Genre: Crime / Thriller / On 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook sailed from Plymouth in search of the North-West Passage. This is the story he might have written. The book is an imagined diary, showing a great seaman stretched to his ... more
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It had been a long time since I read anything by Hammond Innes. I used to read his books regularly during my teenage years, about the same time I was reading works by Alistair MacLean, and Desmond Bagley. Eventually I moved on to other authors, and I thought I had left Hammond Innes behind forever. Last month when I was clearing out a cupboard I came across ‘Solomons Seal’. It was one of the last two Hammond Innes books that I had yet to read and the temptation was just too strong. I settled down to enjoy the book. Solomons Seal did not disappoint me. I was hooked from the first chapter. All the usual Hammond Innes story elements are present here, there is travel to ...

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On the run from accidentally killing a man, Paul van de Voort returns to his adopted fathers house (Dr Pieter Van de Voort), only to find him gone. This is not a big surprise to Paul. But what is a surprise is to find a girl challenging him in his fathers home. The girl (Sonia Winters) turns out to be a friend of Pieter's, doing some secretarial & typing work for him. Paul?s father, who is an anthropologist of some note, has disappeared from a dig in the Greek Islands. At first Paul does not intend to do anything, he never got on with his adopted father, hasn't seen him for 8 years, and clearly has problems of his own. But it seems that destiny has decided otherwise, when ...

 

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