North Star

3.5, very well researched and detailed setting, but more on the decisions and politics would have rounded it off......more

I like it obviously, it's the third time I've read it, I'd been looking through my bookshelf and wondering why I didn't have any Hammond Innes books there, I had read many during my teen years, the first time I read this was whilst I was working in Shetland in 1977, I bought it at the newspaper stal......more

This book was a bit of a tall order, since it required me to deal with a lot of oil technology and shipping vocabulary. But I found the tone to be typically Innes, with the loner seeking to live his life on his own terms and by his own set of ethical standards. There always is some menace lurking to......more