Dead and Alive
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Jul '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
From a quiet beach in Cornwall to Italy's vice-laden underworld, this is the compelling tale of one man's search for a new beginning
When David Cunningham returns to the Cornish coast to mourn a wartime love affair, he little imagines the mysterious quest that awaits him: it will lead him to the Mediterranean, to danger and a life of adventure, to the dark world of racketeering in Naples, the bleak hills beyond Tivoli, and a woman with a tragic past.When David Cunningham returns to the Cornish coast to mourn a wartime love affair, he little imagines the mysterious quest that awaits him: it will lead him to the Mediterranean, to danger and a life of adventure, to the dark world of racketeering in Naples, the bleak hills beyond Tivoli, and a woman with a tragic past.
Readers who quicken to the expert tempo of John Buchan's adventure stories will congratulate themselves on finding in Innes such an admirable inheritor of the high tradition * Irish Times *
As crisply exciting as Eric Ambler and as convincingly realistic as C.S. Forester * Sunday Times *
They say people can’t write stories anymore. Tell that to Hammond Innes * Sunday Times *
Hammond Innes is a master of suspense * Spectator *
Mr. Innes's readers were addicts when it came to his books, which were cinematic in sweep and sold 40 million copies * New York Times *
ISBN: 9780099577799
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Weight: 117g
160 pages