Product Description

The brain-teasing new thriller from the 'master of the clever twist'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94354 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-24
• Binding: Hardcover
• 369 pages

Daily Mirror
Mysterious, dramatic, intricate, fascinating and unputdownable...The crime writers' crime writer

Guardian
An absorbing read...Both an excellent introduction to his work and a treat for diehard fans

Synopsis
This work presents the sequence of extraordinary events over the past 300 years. It is a chain of intrigue, deceit, greed and murder. It covers: the loss of H.M.S. Association with all hands in 1707; an admiralty clerk's secret mission thirty years after; a fatal accident during a dive to the wreck in 1996; and an expatriate's reluctant return home ten years later. The simple task he has come to accomplish, shown to be anything but. A woman he recognises but cannot identify. A conspiracy of circumstances that is about to unravel his life. And with it, the past.

Customer Reviews

What a great book with brilliant backdrop
I thoroughlly enjoyed this book. I felt that I'd read not only a thriller/mystery story, but I was given a very interesting history lesson too.

I've been to Cornwall many times over the years and on one occasion to the Scilly Isles too, so can picture the places mentioned very well.

This book keeps you guessing right up until the end having drawn you in from the beginning, so it therefore keeps your attention and before you know it you've nearly finished it. Brilliant.

Disappointing
This is poor from Goddard, I really wanted to stop reading. The plot just seemed to get increasingly implausible; and how the main character gets motivated to chase round after a series of half-baked clues stretches credulity too far.

Work of Two Writers?

Echoing the thoughts of some other reviewers - disappointing overall. It read like a detailed plot summary rather than a fully developed story and had lots of loose ends. I enjoyed the earlier books - Past Caring particularly. I notice that the last 4 books attribute copyright to Robert AND Vaunda Goddard and wonder if this is the reason for the uneven quality?