Book description
Lance Bradley, idling his life away in Somerset, suddenly receives a
call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert
Alder. Rupe appears to have vanished without trace. Reluctantly, Lance
goes to London where he discovers that Rupe's employers want him tried
for fraud. A Japanese businessman claims he has stolen a document of
huge importance. And Rupe has hired a private detective to try and
trace an American called Townley, who was involved in a mysterious
death thirty years before.
No sooner has Lance decided that whatever Rupe was up to is far too
risky to get involved in, than he finds that he already is involved.
And the only way out is to get in deeper still. Where is Rupe? What is
the document he has stolen? Who is Townley? And could the seemingly
unexplainable events of the past hold the key to a secret more
shocking than Lance Bradley could ever have imagined?
Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire. He read History at Cambridge
and worked as an educational administrator in Devon before becoming a
full-time novelist. He is the author of many bestselling novels,
including Into the Blue which won the first WH Smith Thumping Good Read
Award and was dramatized for TV in 1997, starring John Thaw.
