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    Days Without Number

    Written by Robert Goddard

    Narrated by Gordon Griffin

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    Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters against their aged and irascible father. Michael Paleologus, retired archaeologist and supposed descendant of the last Emperors of Byzantium, lives alone at Trennor, a remote and rambling house on the Cornish bank of the Tamar. A ridiculously generous offer has been made for the house, but he refuses to sell despite the urgings of his children, for whom the proceeds would solve a variety of problems. Nick accomplishes little in the role of mediator, but the stalemate is soon tragically broken. Only then do Nick and his siblings discover why their father was bound at all costs to reject the offer and what may really be the motives of the prospective buyer. Their increasingly desperate efforts to conceal the truth drag them into a deadly conflict with an unseen and unknown enemy, who seems as determined to force them into a confrontation with their family's past as he is to conceal his own identity. Late in the day, perhaps too late, Nick realizes that the only way to escape from the trap their persecutor has set for them is to hunt him down, wherever - and whoever - he may be. But the hunt involves excavating a terrible secret from their father's archaeological career. And once that secret is known, nothing will ever be the same again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 27, 2013
    ISBN9781461810612

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    • 4/5
      Goddard’s tales are always entertaining but this one falls well short of his best. He throws out clues and then just lets them fall, unfinished and unexplained. And perhaps most annoyingly he takes two lead characters, one a minor bureaucrat on sick leave and the other an ex-monk who by his own account ‘has nothing’, then lets them travel widely and freely, jumping on and off long train journeys and staying in hotels, eating in restaurants etc. without even a hint of how they are paying for it all. To finish, they set off together on a world trip with absolutely no reference whatsoever to the expense. All this adds up to a book written to fulfil a contract with little care taken over the detail.
    • 5/5
      Robert Goddard just reels you in to his stories as the few first chapters unwind, and you suddenly find yourself totally engrossed and wanting and needing to find out more and what the truth is behind the story. He is one of my favourite authors and have never known him to tell a bad story. This is another excellent book of his, although I wouldn't necessarily say it is one of my favourites. As always there is a historical element within this story that does link to Knights Templars, Holy Grail et al.well worth a read and I would strongly recommend Robert Goddard to anyone that has not read him. You won't be sorry.
    • 2/5
      St Neots, Landulph, Minnions, Saltash and probably the best known of them all Tintagel. Places that I knew and had visited while growing up in Cornwall, plus Plymouth on the English side of the border where I worked for several years on leaving school. So faced with a 7 train journey back home to visit family (thats 7 hour in one direction so the same coming back) I decided to pick up a book which was although by an author I had not previously read but was at least set in Cornwall in an attempt to rekindle some long lost memories. Something which definately happens more and more as you grow greyer.Nick Paleologus returns to Cornwall supposedly to attend a family birthday but once there finds that his siblings have ulterior motives for his presence and latterly unearths, literally, a family secret which could threaten them all. OK the premise is very good and the Cornish scenery and atmosphere is spot on but once the story and Nick leaves Cornwall, about 300 pages in, so the story begins to unravel becoming involved with old professors,Crusades and Knights Templar and all that hokum. Eventually Nick and his brother Basil end up in Venice where both are captured by the baddie in the piece who conveniently, ala Blofeld in James Bond, tells them his motives for what he have done and what he intends to do later. With a rather tame ending, Nick is not really a hero but is rather led through the book like a bull with a ring through his nose.The book runs along at a cracking pace and there are plenty of plot twists and turns (a few rather laboured) but it was longer than it needed to be and just seemed yet another of those books jumping on the Da Vinci Code (absolute dross IMHO) bandwagon. If like me you are looking to something to kill some hours away while travelling and enjoy conspiracy theories then it is fine but don't expect some lightning bolt of inspiration. That said I would be willing to give Goddard another go to see whether this is typical or atypical of his works just not yet.
    • 5/5
      Robert Goddard is a new author, to me. I picked this book up from a second hand bookshop for coppers, and it has sat upon my shelf for quite some time before I bothered to read it. This was my loss. Robert Goddard will certainly go upon my list of authors for whose books I should look out.Days without number is that ideal escapism: it is a highly improbable story told in such a way as to appear realistic. Were I to précis the story, you would think it poor but, Mr Goddard keeps it zinging along. The storyline is different to anything else that I have read and I genuinely did not know where it was going until it arrived. Characters were friends then enemies and then friends again with startling regularity and one became as confused as our hero as to who could be trusted. This is all accomplished without the need for foul language or second rate sex scenes.This is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of escapism and I would unquestioningly recommend it as light reading.
    • 5/5
      Another family-themed thriller from the master, again set in Cornwall, this time featuring the interestingly named Michael Paleologus.