reviewed on a recorded show by Brian Lowen for 19th Sept 2013
An excellent story
that holds your attention the whole way through.
The scene is set
in the early 1930s and starts as two English confidence tricksters, Guy and
Max, are sailing back to Britain aboard the luxury liner, the Empress of
Britain. They are making a discrete exit from a little awkwardness they have
left behind in America.
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.
It’s a trick they
have pulled before, with some success. Charm the daughter into an engagement to
marry, then get the father to buy you
off. They are very confident of success, but have no idea of the terrible
consequences of becoming involved with the Charnwood family. They think they
are leading the action, but in reality they are pawns in a complicated scheme
involving a secret society which was involved with the instigation of the start of the first world war.
explaining how it
happened, but of course, one must remember this is a fictional novel.
R G spins a
detailed plot with many twists and turns that keep you guessing until the final
outcome. I was still hoping that our hero, Guy Horton, who we follow through
the story, was going to get his girl in the end, but whether he does or not you
will have to read the book to find out.
Recommended as an
enthralling story.
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