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Past Caring

By Robert Goddard

By Robert Goddard

By Robert Goddard

By Robert Goddard

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    About Past Caring

    At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. What’s more, Martin is being offered a job—to return to England and investigate the rise and fall of Strafford, an ambitious young politician whose downfall, in 1910, is as mysterious as the strange deaths that still haunt his family.

    Martin is intrigued by Strafford’s story, by the man’s overwhelming love for a beautiful suffragette, by her inexplicable rejection of him and their love affair’s political repercussions. But as he retraces Strafford’s ruination, Martin realizes that Strafford did not fall by chance; he was pushed. Suddenly Martin, who has not cared for many people in his life, cares desperately—about a man’s mysterious death and a family’s terrible secret, about a love beyond reckoning and betrayal beyond imagining. Most of all Martin cares because the story he is uncovering is not yet over—and among the men and women still caught in its web, Martin himself may be the most vulnerable of all….

    About Past Caring

    At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. What’s more, Martin is being offered a job—to return to England and investigate the rise and fall of Strafford, an ambitious young politician whose downfall, in 1910, is as mysterious as the strange deaths that still haunt his family.

    Martin is intrigued by Strafford’s story, by the man’s overwhelming love for a beautiful suffragette, by her inexplicable rejection of him and their love affair’s political repercussions. But as he retraces Strafford’s ruination, Martin realizes that Strafford did not fall by chance; he was pushed. Suddenly Martin, who has not cared for many people in his life, cares desperately—about a man’s mysterious death and a family’s terrible secret, about a love beyond reckoning and betrayal beyond imagining. Most of all Martin cares because the story he is uncovering is not yet over—and among the men and women still caught in its web, Martin himself may be the most vulnerable of all….

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    About Robert Goddard

    Robert Goddard’s first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. His first Harry Barnett novel, Into the Blue, was winner of the first WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award.  He lives in Truro, Cornwall.  Delta will publish the next Goddard novel,… More about Robert Goddard

    About Robert Goddard

    Robert Goddard’s first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. His first Harry Barnett novel, Into the Blue, was winner of the first WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award.  He lives in Truro, Cornwall.  Delta will publish the next Goddard novel,… More about Robert Goddard

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Delta
    May 20, 2008 | 528 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780385341172

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Delta
    May 20, 2008 | 528 Pages | ISBN 9780440337836

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    Praise

    “A wonderful read…the satisfying climax weaves together the strands of past and present.…A poised telling of a complex tale.” —Publishers Weekly

    “Combines the expert suspense manipulation skills of a Daphne DuMaurier romance with those of a John Le Carre thriller.”—New York Times

    “One of the best novel I’ve read in a long time…I loved every one of its 500 pages”—Washington Post

    “A hornet’s nest of jealousy, blackmail and violence. Engrossing”—Daily Mail

    “A complex trail of blackmail and murder. Recommended”—Daily Express

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