- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (31 Jan 1977)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006145922
- ISBN-13: 978-0006145929
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.4 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 935,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It's a long time since The Wreck of the Mary Deare, and bain't the easiest thing in the world to read Hammond Innes in this much heavier set new novel unless you're on solid terms with winches and shackles and drawworks. On the one hand this is the story cf Michael Randall who collaborates with the widowed Gertrude to get her husband's wrecked trawler back together again and out into the North Sea where oil will be struck. But a good half of the story is dogged, as is Michael, by his past - by a father with Russian leanings, who's supposed to be dead; by a wife of greater sexual attractiveness than the sturdy Gertrude who had been in and out of one extremist political group after another; and by the attempt to nail him on an earlier charge - of throwing a petrol bomb which had almost taken the life of the child he had actually salvaged. And of course the elements in all their magnitude - climaxed by a helluva storm. But there is an audience that stands by, or is it pat? (Kirkus Reviews)
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A thriller in which a North Sea oil rig guard is pushed to the limits when a savage storm hits the platform, and one mans decision marks the turning point, starting a desperate battle for life. From the author of TARGET ANTARCTICA.
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