What do You think about Never Go Back (2006)?
I liked this book. It's just that it's not spectacular, but still certainly not bad.As a thriller or suspense story it doesn't have the most going for it, it is the secretive nature of the plot that's most interesting and a better writer could, quite frankly, have wound up the tension an awful lot more.Still, the details are refreshingly non-stereotypical and there are a good dozen or so twists and turns in the last quarter - it's only a real shame that even someone as dim as I could work out the main bad lad well before he was revealed, and was given an all-too-obvious idea of this only halfway through, which was never sufficiently disguised or supressed.Oh well. I did rather like the main character though, but again, his backstory is, come the finsih, extremely trite.
—Tim
The 18th in my set of Robert Goddard novels.This one was the third in the Harry Barnett novels, but you didn't really have to read the others to appreciate this one. There were references to his wife and daughter, and hints of his past, but you wouldn't miss much if you'd never read the earlier ones.This novel was reasonable. Certainly, he sucked me in and held me, as usual. I don't think it was one of his better ones. Somehow, I expected more twists and turns than this one created. It was a mystery for most of the time, and then moved relatively quickly to a final resolution.
—Bryan Higgs
I debated long and hard about whether to get this book, as I was running out of choices on the visit to the library.I'm glad that I did, and I will find more of his work.Its standard page turning, good for the beach, fiction that does not stand up to too much analysis but has nice characterisation.It tells the story of a group of RAF comrades from national service who meet up again at a reunion in a scottish castle, where they escaped punishment if they agreed to go on an education program from
—Ian Mapp
