Maddon's Rock
Author | Hammond Innes |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Publisher | Collins |
Publication date | 1948 |
Media type |
Maddon's Rock is a 1948 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes published by Collins.[1] The following year it was released in America by Harper with the alternative title of Gale Warning. To research the novel Innes crewed on a friend's yacht in the Fastnet Race.[2]
Synopsis[]
A merchant ship is torpedoed and sunk during a winter return convoy from the Soviet Union in 1945, and several members of her crew are court-martialed and jailed for their conduct during the evacuation to the lifeboats. Another regrettable yet unremarkable incident of war seems set to be forgotten, until a year later, during a gale on another brutal winter night in the northern seas, when a ship that everyone knows to be sunk sends an SOS calling for help.
References[]
- ^ Vinson & Kirkpatrick p.455
- ^ Obituary: Hammond Innes - Arts & Entertainment - The Independent
Bibliography[]
- James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick. Contemporary Novelists. St. James Press, 1986.
Categories:
- 1948 British novels
- Novels by Hammond Innes
- British thriller novels
- William Collins, Sons books
- 1940s novel stubs
- Thriller novel stubs