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The latest novel from the most compelling storyteller of them all.

About the Author

Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire and read History at Cambridge. His first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. Since then his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting. His first Harry Barnett novel, Into the Blue, was winner of the first WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award and was dramatized for TV, starring John Thaw.

Reviews

"Undoubtedly Goddard's most entertaining book to date"
-"The Times"

"The plot races from one crisis to the next, keeping you guessing all the time. And there's a neat twist at the end, too"
-"Ideal Home"

" Undoubtedly Goddard's most entertaining book to date"
-"The Times"
" The plot races from one crisis to the next, keeping you guessing all the time. And there's a neat twist at the end, too"
-"Ideal Home"

" Undoubtedly Goddard's most entertaining book to date"
-"The Times"
" The plot races from one crisis to the next, keeping you guessing all the time. And there's a neat twist at the end, too"
-"Ideal Home"
"Undoubtedly Goddard's most entertaining book to date"
-"The Times"

"The plot races from one crisis to the next, keeping you guessing all the time. And there's a neat twist at the end, too"
-"Ideal Home"

In this above-average thriller by Goddard (A Debt of Dishonour, LJ 12/91), the presumably childless Harry Barnett, living a quiet, aimless life in Britain, receives an anonymous call informing him that his son, a brilliant mathematician, is comatose. Worse, the son's condition is probably not accidental. His notebooks are missing; people around him are dying under mysterious circumstances. Harry, introduced in Goddard's Into the Blue (LJ 1/91), finds a new sense of purpose with the discovery that he is a father, and he begins to investigate what happened and why. The answer lies under layers of deceit, greed, fear, madness, and genius and leads Harry into unexpected byways. By turns scary and intelligent, this novel, lightly grounded in contemporary mathematical theory, will be received well in public libraries.‘Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Lib., Fort Leavenworth, Kan.