THE NAKED LAND

by Hammond Innes ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 8, 1954

Again a narrative of natural phenomena and unnatural dangers-as the mountains and desert waste of French Morocco provide a forbidding landscape on which the story is hung. Latham, a missionary, comes down to Tangier to meet a Czech doctor, Kavan, who has agreed to join him at his mission. A ketch, sailed by a smuggler- Wade, reaches this harlot city but only one man comes ashore- and Kavan assumes the identify of Wade in an attempt to evade his anti-Communist past. Hounded by Ali, a Berber agitator, as well as the police who want an explanation for the missing man, he escapes the Zone with the help of Latham; they reach the mission to find that it has been destroyed by a landslide; and they go on to Kasbah-Foum, with its rich promise in silver, and establish the validity of the deed to this land which Kavan holds, and Ali wants, in the face of native violence... All this- and romance too- forms a complex of distrust and disaster, of old hatreds and the new climate of treason, of hazard- and haphazard--- for an immoderate but unremitting entertainment... You know your market by now.

Pub Date: March 8, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1954

Categories: FICTION