The Strode Venturer is a thriller by British author Hammond Innes published in 1965.
Geoffrey Bailey returns to London, leaving behind a career in the Royal Navy and a ruined marriage in Singapore.
Bailey eventually locates Peter Strode in Addu, in the southern Maldive Islands, where he is obsessed with helping the nascent Addu People's Republic against the Maldive government, and with relocating an uninhabited island in the southern Indian Ocean which is rich in manganese deposits which can both help the Adduan people and the financially failing Strode Shipping Company.
Like many of Innes' novels, the hero faces all sorts of obstacles, which he has to overcome, including a family tragedy.
An adaptation of the book was broadcast in BBC radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre in 1974, with Martin Jarvis playing Peter Strode.