L’Homme de Leucade est l’histoire de la fantastique découverte du docteur Van der Voort et de l’étrange relation tissée d’amour et de haine qui le lie à son fils Paul, officier de marine à la vie sans problèmes, sur lequel le vieux savant exerce une fascination fatale. Méconnu par le monde universitaire, à bout de forces, traqué par les Services Secrets grecs qui le prennent pour un agent communiste, le démoniaque docteur s’enfonce dans les entrailles volcaniques de la Grèce à la recherche du premier sanctuaire de l’homme, ce tueur. Il y a quelque chose qui rappelle le western dans ce sombre best-seller d’Hammond Innes. Et au-delà du western, au-delà des lieux et des temps, en filigrane, la même antique tragédie qui ne cesse de se jouer depuis des millénaires
Hammond Innes Livres
Ralph Hammond Innes était un auteur anglais prolifique dont les thrillers mettaient souvent en scène des hommes ordinaires projetés dans des situations extrêmes. Ses œuvres se caractérisaient par des explorations méticuleuses d'environnements, des étendues arctiques aux périls de la haute mer, les protagonistes étant obligés de compter sur leur intelligence plutôt que sur la force brute. Innes a fréquemment exploré des thèmes liés aux événements maritimes et s'est plus tard intéressé aux sujets écologiques. Sa capacité à créer des récits captivants à partir de circonstances ordinaires en a fait une figure marquante du genre thriller.







For the stranger, Morocco was the last refuge. Here he hoped to build a new life for himself. But three people were waiting for him: Latham, a smuggler turned missionary; Kostos, a man with his grubby fingers in everything illegal; and a girl from his own mysterious past. The answers he sought would be found out among the Berbers residing between the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara...
A thriller about a man who takes on the task of finding the 'black sheep' of a family of wealthy shipowners, and is plunged into a nightmare world where he must face the dangers of coral reefs, remote islands and financial warfare. From the author of ISVIK and TARGET ANTARCTICA.
The author takes the reader on a personal tour of the eastern counties of Britain: Suffolk, Norfolk, northern Essex and eastern Cambridgeshire. He describes the history of East Anglia through the people, the towns, the inns and landscape of this part of England.
The 5,000-ton freighter, Trikkala, outward bound in convoy from Murmansk, struck a mine in the early hours of March 5th, 1945, 300 miles from the nearest land. There were only eight survivors and she was listed as sunk. Yet over a year later the Trikkala radioed an S.O.S. as she was battering her way towards the Hebrides through the gale-swept waters of the Arctic Ocean. Why was this ghost ship still afloat? What had happened during the missing months? What is the sinister significance of only eight survivors from a ship that never sank?
Campbell's Kingdom
- 387pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Bruce Campbell Wetheral has apparently no future, but suddenly finds himself the sole beneficiary under his grandfather's will. Stuart Campbell had been an aggressive and obstinate old man convinced that oil could be found in the Rocky Mountains. Now his grandson decides to take up the challenge. But time is against him -- the time to live, the time to vindicate his grandfather's obsession, and time to save the land itself from impending disaster.
Decimated by drought and poacher's bullets, the last of Africa's majestic elephants face extinction. They are pursued by a "great white hunter" who relies on modern technology to process them as food for the starving natives. He is opposed by his former partner who is determined that the beasts shall not pay the price for man's inability to manage his resources wisely. "Hammond Innes shows great depth of understanding of the complex strands that make up the ecology of a region." (Best Sellers)
George Farnell's legacy came to light ten years after his disappearance. Two lines of poetry and a lump of mineral ore were all he left. Yet they were enough to send mineral expert, Bill Gansert, to Norway. But word of Farnell's findings had already leaked out -- and Gansert found himself caught in a maze of ambition and treachery with roots lying deep in years of German occupation.



