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Hammond Innes was a thriller writer of the great British post-war generation, along with Desmond Bagley, Gavin Lyall and others. This is a salt-encrusted sea story, about a couple of British army enlisted men assigned to guard a shipment of silver being shipped to the U.K. from Murmansk on a creaky old freighter in the late days of the Second World War. The ship's captain is a sinister Shakespeare-quoting loony, the warrant officer in charge of the guard detachment is a weak-kneed drunk, and whe
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Jul 31, 2018
Anil Joshi
marked it as to-read
