From Amazon.com
If you like the darkly romantic thrillers of Daphne Du Maurier, (
Rebecca,
The House on the Strand,
Jamaica Inn), where secrets from the past surface to tease and torture the protagonists, you should also enjoy Robert Goddard, a best-selling author in his native Britain. Goddard's latest takes the main character of his
Into the Blue--idealistic failure Harry Barnett--through a story involving the son he never knew he had, a 33-year-old math genius now in a coma. Harry's stumbling investigations reveal sinister and even surreal overtones to his son's research, and Goddard's silky prose generates an unusual depth of excitement and sympathy. Other Goddard books in paperback include
Closed Circle,
Hand in Glove,
In Pale Battalions, and
Painting the Darkness.
From Library Journal
In this above-average thriller by Goddard (A Debt of Dishonour, LJ 12/91), the presumably childless Harry Barnett, living a quiet, aimless life in Britain, receives an anonymous call informing him that his son, a brilliant mathematician, is comatose. Worse, the son's condition is probably not accidental. His notebooks are missing; people around him are dying under mysterious circumstances. Harry, introduced in Goddard's Into the Blue (LJ 1/91), finds a new sense of purpose with the discovery that he is a father, and he begins to investigate what happened and why. The answer lies under layers of deceit, greed, fear, madness, and genius and leads Harry into unexpected byways. By turns scary and intelligent, this novel, lightly grounded in contemporary mathematical theory, will be received well in public libraries.?Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Lib., Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
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