C1 Hammond INNES. LES REVOLTES DU TRIKKALA. Edition RLa Maitrise du Livre, ollection L'Empreinte Aventures # 4, 1949 broche, Format 11*17.5 cm, 219 pages. COUVERTURE ILLUSTREE coiffes un peu touches, autrement BON ETAT, Traduit de l'anglais (Maddon’s Rock aka Gale Warning - 1948) Roman d'aventures maritimes Resume en anglais : This suspenseful adventure is set during the last days of WW2 The novel introduces readers to a British Corporal named J.L. Varny and his brother-in-arms Bert Cook. In the opening chapter, these two soldiers are within a small company of troops in Murmansk, Russia awaiting departure on the Queen Mary. However, their arrival to the ship's departure is late so they are ordered to join the crew of a British freighter called the Trikkala. On board, the troops are assigned the tedious task of guarding a small cargo of crates day and night as the ship journeys through arctic cold fronts on its journey back to England. Immediately Varny senses that something is strange about the ship's crew. Their captain is a notorious trader who’s experienced a number of mysterious casualties to his crew. The orders suggest Varny and his men to simply stay out of the way. But for what purpose? As the weather becomes more frigid, the boat and its crew are attacked by a German U-Boat. Within minutes, Varny suspects that something is amiss about the attack. Further, upon inspecting the lifeboats he finds that someone on board has disabled the boat's inner planking. Is this a heist, a surrender or simply the war's stress on Varny's exhausted mind ? Thankfully, the author uses these options to propel the book's thrilling narrative ... . On peut voir le lien ci dessous : https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/maddons-rock-hammond-innes/
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