The Ends of the Earth, Robert Goddard
The Ends of the Earth, Robert Goddard
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The Ends of the Earth
A James Maxted Thriller

Author: Robert Goddard

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/02/2017

Synopsis

The Treaty of Versailles has finally been signed, officially ending the World War I peace negotiations, and the action shifts east, to Tokyo, where a team assembled at Max's behest anxiously awaits his arrival on the docks. Max had arrived in Paris soon after the end of the Great War to investigate the suspicious death of his father, a British diplomat named Sir Henry, and soon plunged into a treacherous game of cat-and-mouse with the people behind his father's death: German spymaster Fritz Lemmer and the dark horse of the Japanese diplomatic contingent, Count Tomura. It is in Japan—where Sir Henry worked as a young government agent—that Max hopes to finally uncover the whole truth behind his father's murder and take down Lemmer's spy network once and for all. But what Max's cohort doesn't know is that his own storyline seems to have come to an end in a villa outside Marseilles. Stuck in limbo, the team decides to pursue their only lead—right into Lemmer's den.

About Robert Goddard

Robert Goddard is the Edgar Award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Long Time Coming, Past Caring, and Into the Blue, which won the first WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award and was later filmed for television. The James Maxted series also includes The Ways of the World and The Corners of the Globe. Robert read history at the University of Cambridge and lives in Cornwall.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rob on March 26, 2016

I can't remember when I've been more disappointed in a book. I loved the first of this trilogy and couldn't put it down. This one I couldn't wait to finish. The characters stumble from one obvious trap or reversal to another with so many contrived plot points it almost gets comical. The whole set up......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on September 29, 2015

enjoyed this in the final part of the trilogy where the loose from books 1 and 2 were sorted as the action takes in 1919 japan in the aftermath of WW1 and the gradual changing mood of some of the nobility towards imperialism and their past in this many woven tales which end as one, the only slight d......more

Goodreads review by Speesh on March 20, 2016

The final book in ‘The Wide World Trilogy' and Robert Goddard remembers the ‘Wide World' bit on the cover and has the story rushing - as much as a five week sail trip can be said to be rushing - off to Japan in search of answers to the many questions raised back in Europe and in the first two ‘Wide......more

Goodreads review by Steven on October 16, 2015

The journey of James Maxted (Max) begun in the first volume of Robert Goddard’s World Wide Trilogy continues in the third volume, THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. The focus shifts to Japan as Max is determined to bring his investigation of his father’s death, Sir Henry Maxted, a British diplomat to a conclusi......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on April 21, 2022

This entire trilogy takes place in about 4-5 months in 1919. While providing some backstory in this volume, Goddard provides a glimpse of Paris during the peace talks. The gathering of the weary victors of the Great War has filled Paris with such men as Sir Henry - the politicians and functionaries......more

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