Maddon's Rock

Maddon's Rock
First edition
AuthorHammond Innes
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1948
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

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 its 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

Bibliography

  • James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick. Contemporary Novelists. St. James Press, 1986.

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