Slight chipping on book jacket edges Alfred Knopf, 1962 Book Club Edition, 242 pages Atlantic Fury is set in the wild out-islands of the Heb-rides, whose rocky crags witness the struggle of the men of landing craft L8610 to survive a ravaging gale. And when the storm abates, there remains the question: was a man's desperate decision to hide his past responsible for the disaster? Douglas Ross had set out to learn whether Major George Braddock was indeed his brother lain, survivor of the wreck of the Duart Castle and daring masquerader for these many years. In-stead, Douglas found himself caught in a raging gale in a ship with a dead man in its hold. A spectacular rescue from forbidding Sgeir Mhor, a court martial, and a grisly discovery and confrontation on a fog-shrouded cove-and Hammond Innes wraps up one of his most exciting stories of adventure at sea and the courage of men pitted against the raw elements