Atlantic Fury by Hammond Innes

Published by The Companion Book Club, London, 1963

In good clean condition

Two brothers fight to save a group of soldiers on a rocky island in the Hebrides in this haunting adventure by an “exceptional” thriller master (TheGuardian).

The island of Laerg towers over the North Atlantic, a forbidding black rock with cliffs impossible to climb, its farthest heights wreathed in fog. It’s an inhospitable place, whose last residents were forcibly evacuated in the 1930s, but Donald Ross, the artist son of an islander, has spent his life imagining its rugged beauty. When he finally comes home, however, the isle of his dreams may become his tomb.

Donald is searching for his brother, Iain, believed lost at sea many years ago. He finds him living under an assumed identity at the British army outpost that now dominates Laerg. The weather soon turn...
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asked
battledress
beach
bloody
boat
bows
brother
camp
Captain
cigarette
Cliff Morgan
cloud
Coastal Command
cold
Colonel Standing
Command
damn
dark
dinghy
door
Duart Castle
engine
evacuation
eyes
face
feet
Ferguson
flat
fog
forecast
glanced
go to Laerg
gone
grey
HAMMOND INNES
hand
happened
hawser
head
Hitler
Hebrides
helicopter
hell
hut
Iain
island
Keava
knew
Laerg
landing craft
LCT
Leverburgh
light
looked
Major Braddock
Marjorie
Matthieson
Mike Ferguson
miles
mind
minutes
night
nodded
North Uist
Northton
Office
oilskins
operation
Outer Hebrides
Pinney
radar
radio
rain
reached
realise
Royal Navy
RNVR
remember
rock
Rodil
Ross
round
saw
say
sea
Sgeir Mhor
Shelter Bay
ship
shipping forecast
shook
sir
slopes
smiled
sound
spray
Standing's
starboard
staring
stern
stood
Stornoway
Stratton
suddenly
survivors
talking
tank deck
Tarsaval
teleprint
tell
there's
thought
told
took
trawler
turned
voice
waiting
watching
waves
weather
Wentworth
wheelhouse
winch
wind
Yes
WWII, WW2, World War