Robert Goddard - Fault Line

review by showhost
I have just finished this feast of a book. Enjoyable, engrossing and intriguing. I savoured each page, its one of those books you never want to end.
The story fluctuates between the 1960's and the present day but the fluctuations are very easy to keep track of. It is set mainly in St Austell, Cornwall and Capri, Italy.
It follows the fates and fortunes of the Wren family, Cornish China Clay and the merger with American Kaolin.
Jonathan Kellaway who lives and was born in St Austell becomes embroiled in the lives of the Wren family when he is 16 and waiting to go to university. The decision to work for the Wren family and not CCC proves his fate for the rest of his life. His chance meeting with the son and daughter of George Wren brings mystery, hidden secrets murder and love into his life. A life that will forever tied to the company and its directors and family.
As he reaches retirement age he is asked to perform one last favour for the aging managing director. He is asked to find out what happened to the missing documents from late fifties to early sixties about dealings with Wren and CCC. As he begins to unearth the facts he begins to realise how he had been manipulated all those years and how ruthless some people can be to achieve power and success.

It is an absorbing & gripping family saga with suicide, murder and intrigue around everypage. Jonathan is a good solid character and I was with him all the way as his quest took him from Cornwall, to Capri, Naples, London, America and Brazil. My only problem now is finding another book as good to take its place .....