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The Black Tide - Hammond Innes SIGNED 1st Edition

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The Black Tide

January 7, 2020

Trevor Rodin is one of Hammond Innes' more interesting protagonists. Like many of the previous "heroes" in Innes' fiction, Rodin is very much a flawed character. But in the case of The Black Tide, that extends to his final image. It's much more ambiguous, Rodin's fate and psychological state much less clear. No happy ending, here. And that is a change, especially from Innes' earlier works, where he hewed to the guidelines in place for adventure genre fiction. With this effort, however, Rodin is left somewhat adrift. His potential romance is a failure, a rejection, which fundamentally alters the expectations of the genre, the goal being to overcome hurdles and tasks to win the favor of the chosen woman. Trevor Rodin ends up a much more mature individual, taking stock of himself, his deceased wife, and the impact his initial thirst for revenge has had on others.

As an adventure story, The Black Tide does lack the pace and thrill of earlier works. Bu

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Hammond Innes

British novelist (1913–1998)

Ralph Hammond InnesCBE (15 July 1913 – 10 June 1998) was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as works for children and travel books.

Biography

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Innes was born in Horsham, Sussex, and educated at Feltonfleet School, Cobham, Surrey, where he was head boy, and later at Cranbrook School in Kent. He left in 1931 to work as a reporter, initially with the Financial News. The Doppelganger, his first novel, was published in 1937. In WWII, he served in the Royal Artillery, eventually rising to the rank of Major. During the war, further books were published, including Wreckers Must Breathe (1940), The Trojan Horse (1940) and Attack Alarm (1941), the last of which was based on his experiences as an anti-aircraft gunner during the Battle of Britain at RAF Kenley.^[1] After being demobilized in 1946, he worked full-time as a writer, achieving multiple early successes. His novels are known for a fine a