Synopsis
A worn and faded photograph pinned to a letter shows a long-legged girl with an oval face and eyes and mouth that had a suggestion of laughter. After the destruction of war, is this photograph the likeness of a beautiful girl, or the memory of a skeleton buried beneath a shattered building?
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Review
"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)
Book Description
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
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