Dead And Alive - Hardcover

Innes, Hammond

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ISBN 10: 075316745X ISBN 13: 9780753167458

Publisher: Compass Hardcover, 2002

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In just two months, ex-Naval officer David Cunningham turned the wreck of an old landing craft, found stranded in a Cornish cove, into a vessel any skipper would be proud of. Then came the request that turned his trading plans upside-down. "Find out what has happened to Monique, please", the letter pleaded, and the faded image accompanying it seemed to leave him no alternative. The TREVEDRA was bound for post-war Italy with a cargo of spares. But that letter was to take him further - to the doorstep of the Camorra, to pay the bloody ransom for a life.

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About the Author:

Ralph Hammond Innes was born in Horsham, Sussex, on 15 July 1913 and educated at Cranbrook School, Kent. He left school aged eighteen, and worked successively in publishing, teaching and journalism. In 1936, in need of money in order to marry, he wrote a supernatural thriller, The Doppleganger, which was published in 1937 as part of a two-year, four book deal. In 1939 Innes moved to a different publisher, and began to write compulsively, continuing to publish throughout his service in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. Innes travelled widely to research his novels and always wrote from personal experience - his 1940s novels The Blue Ice and The White South were informed by time spent working on a whaling ship in the Antarctic, while The Lonely Skier came out of a post-war skiing course in the Dolomites. He was a keen and accomplished sailor, which passion inspired his 1956 bestseller The Wreck of the Mary Deare. The equally successful 1959 film adaptation of this novel enabled Innes to buy a large yacht, the Mary Deare, in which he sailed around the world for the next fifteen years, accompanied by his wife and fellow author Dorothy Lang. Innes wrote over thirty novels, as well as several works of non-fiction and travel journalism. His thrilling stories of spies, counterfeiters, black markets and shipwreck earned him both literary acclaim and an international following, and in 1978 he was awarded a CBE. Hammond Innes died at his home in Suffolk on 10th June 1998.

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