Maddon's Rock
 First edition | |
| Author | Hammond Innes |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Collins |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| 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.