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4.0 out of 5 stars
Better the second time round, 7 Dec 2001
Bruce Wetheral receives a death bed letter from his grandfather asking him to go to Canada and continue his search for oil in his section of the Rocky Mountains. When he gets to Canada to take up the reins of his grandfather's work he finds Campbell had enemies. One of them is a big mining company. Wetheral continues his struggle to prove the old man's theory. I do not usually read books more than once but although this book is nearly forty years old, like all Innes' work it has not lost any of its thrill.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another great thriller from Hammond Innes, 14 Dec 2002
I'm not sure what the synopsis refers to but it isn't this book! This is another great thriller from Hammond Innes, an adventure writer right up there with the likes of Alistair MacLean and a whole lot better than the current crop of writers led by the totally unimaginative Tom Clancey. This is not literature but Hammond Innes never meant it to be, it is however a great example a adventure fiction. This particular story is set in the Rocky Mountains where the hero, Bruce Campbell Wetheral, has gone to take possession of his inheritance, an oil rig. Hammond Innes puts together a tightly written and constantly entertaining story about the underdog trying to fight against evil corporations. A thoroughly entertaining read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
from the covers, 1 Sep 2007
CAMPBELL'S KINGDOM is a story of Western Canada as it is to-day, a story of the great oil boom and of the grim, wind-torn wastes of the Rocky Mountains. Here is the hectic atmosphere of a young people still intent on tearing the wealth out of virgin country--here are the ghost towns of the old gold-rush days and the construction camps and oilrigs of to-day.
Campbell was one of the old-timers, a great character who laboured all his life to prove what he believed--that there was oil in the Rocky Mountains. His Kingdom was a stretch of country 7000 feet up in the Rockies. In the valley below lay Come Lucky, a ghost town of the old Cariboo days peopled by men soured to the point of hate by greed and disappointment. It was they who drove Campbell to spend the last years of his life alone in the Kingdom, and at his death the old-timer wrote to his grandson, Bruce Wetheral, in England: "I pray God you will accept the mantle of my beliefs and wear it to the damnation of my enemies..." Wetheral, driven by the compelling urgency of a personal disaster, accepts the challenge and emigrates to Canada. But in the Rockies he finds himself faced with something bigger than the greed and hatred of a few old men: a big mining company is moving up the valley and threatening to spread its tentacles over the Kingdom. This book is Wetheral's account of his struggle to prove that Campbell was right--a struggle against powerful interests and ill health in a hard, unyielding country.
This is Hammond Innes at his best, a born story-teller fully extended, with a subject more exciting and more topical than any he has yet chosen.
On Hammond Innes:
"John Buchan, Stevenson, Henty and Rider Haggard would all, I think, look benevolently upon Mr. Innes." --Elizabeth Bowen
"Mr. Innes deals magnificently with disaster." --Lionel Hale
"The art of writing thoroughly well-documented and ably written thrillers is perfectly understood by Mr. Innes, whose work stands in a class by itself." --V. S. Pritchett
"Mr. Innes is one of the most accomplished writers of adventure stories now in practice." --Howard Spring
"Mr. Innes tightens suspense to the pitch of nightmare." --L. A. G. Strong
[ OCR by Jegs11 for KeyFiction ]
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by Hammond Innes
