I likened reading his later works to eating a fast food meal - filing, delicious at times but ultimately forgettable. By chance, they bump into Vita Charnwood, Diana’s aunt, on the ship, Empress of Britain, that is travelling back to England. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Channel Islands, Comoros, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Congo, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.

He read History at Cambridge and worked as an educational administrator in Devon before becoming a full-time novelist. There are multiple unexpected developments: murder and suspected betrayal, deceitfulness, duplicity, double-dealing, disloyalty, espionage on a global level, trickery, pretense. His 1st 4 novels were word-heavy, but you never felt bored reading or thought that any parts of the story were meandering or redundant.Alpha 2 Omega Books do not sell or rent personally identifiable information to any third party for any purpose. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A chance meeting on deck brings them a tempting new target in the shape of Miss Charnwood and her niece, the beautiful Diana, only child of the immensely wealthy Fabian Charnwood. Most of our tapes are NTSC format (it is specified in the listing what the format is) which will not work in most video players in Europe and Australia.

The main characters were not at all likable, and the plot was a stretch of the believable, but it was excellent. It is 1931 and on board the transantlantic liner Empress of Britain the two meet a wealthy heiress, the beautiful Diana Charnwood and her aunt Vita Charnwood. Around page 400 you may feel like you’re going around in circles, but you won’t say you’re not enjoying the ride.A chance meting on deck brings them a tempting new target in the shape of the beautiful and wealthy heiress, Diana Charnwood. One can re-read the best books over and over again and still be moved by the story and writing even though the plot is known. But then, it's a novel by Robert Goddard, so I'm expecting nothing less by the master of labyrinthine plots. Well, what I was wondering was—’ He broke off at the approach of the steward and went up in my estimation by demanding a large Jack Daniels.