The Killer Mine - Couverture souple

Innes, Hammond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 033034238X ISBN 13 : 9780330342384

Editeur : Pan Books, 1997

Synopsis

Smuggled illegally into his native land after many years' absence, army deserter Jim Pryce finds himself deposited on a Cornish beach. Little does he suspect, setting out along the road to Penzance, that he is about to walk straight into a mine disaster, and into a story involving his own history.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Quatrième de couverture

'John Buchan, Stevenson, Henty and Rider Haggard would all, I think, look benevolently upon Mr Innes' Elizabeth Bowen

When Jim Pryce, a deserter from the army, returns secretly to his native Cornwall, he finds the coast cold and unfriendly. He is soon plunged into a hazardous world of crooks, contraband, madness and mysteries underneath the rocky cliffs.

Proceeds from this book will be donated to ASTO (Association of Sail Training Organisations) - a charity which promotes adventure at sea for young people.

See also: Campbell's Kingdom

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pan Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 033034238X
• ISBN 13: 9780330342384
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 295
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible