Robert Goddard
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Second in the World Wide Trilogy. Paris, 1919. As diplomats debate the aftermath of WWI at the Versailles Peace Conference, Royal Flying Corps veteran–turned–double agent James "Max" Maxted has just received his first mission from his new boss-and sworn enemy-legendary German spy Fritz Lemmer. Traveling to Scotland's remote Orkney Islands to collect a mysterious file, Max must keep his true allegiances in mind-and pray his cover isn't blown. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Four years of horrific fighting have finally ended on the battlefield, and in the spring of 1919, Paris is filled with delegates working towards the Treaty of Versailles. One such representative is British diplomat Sir Henry Maxted, in charge of convincing the Brazilians to hand over warships seized from the Germans. Before a deal is reached, Sir Henry turns up dead outside a Montparnasse apartment building. The French police conclude that Sir Henry...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In the third installment of the James Maxted thriller series, starring a dashing Royal Flying Corps veteran turned secret service operative, the truth about allegiances has never been less certain. The Treaty of Versailles has finally been signed, officially ending the World War I peace negotiations, and the action shifts east, to Tokyo, where a team assembled at Max's behest anxiously awaits his arrival on the docks. Max had arrived in Paris soon...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009], p2009
Description
Richard Eusden is on his way to work in London one unremarkable winter morning when he is intercepted by his ex-wife, Gemma. She has sad news of his old friend, Marty Hewitson. Marty is dying, but needs a favour done for him at once.
Eusden reluctantly agrees and sets off on what should be a simple errand. But soon it turns into a race for life, his and Marty’s, across Belgium, Germany and Denmark and on into the Nordic heart of a mystery...
Eusden reluctantly agrees and sets off on what should be a simple errand. But soon it turns into a race for life, his and Marty’s, across Belgium, Germany and Denmark and on into the Nordic heart of a mystery...
5) Sea change
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age - the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a penniless mapmaker, is offered a discharge of his debts if he will deliver a package to Amsterdam for the Director of the South Sea Company. When the package is delivered Spandrel discovers the recipient has been murdered and he soon realises he has been a pawn in several people's games. British...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Tokyo, Japan: Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasantly filled with coffee runs and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case that is surrounded by shadows. A case that means Wada will have to leave Tokyo and travel to London... London, England: Nick Miller never...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes...