At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance.
His first Harry Barnett novel, Into the Blue, was winner of the first WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award and was dramatized for TV, starring John Thaw..
Since then his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting.
His first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller.
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 the Author: ROBERT Goddard was born in Hampshire and read History at Cambridge.
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.
But as he retraces Strafford\'s ruination, Martin realizes that Strafford did not fall by chance; he was pushed.
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.
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.
His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford.
At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance
