Well, he did it again! Robert Goddard, that is. WL The Ends of the Earth (The Wide World Trilogy, #3) (2015) TR The Corners of the Globe (The Wide World Trilogy #2) (2014) Some renditions of Silenus remind me of a certain Old Bailey hack.Įxcellent suspense novel, it's not hard to see why Goddard is on my favourite authors list, and 'Into the Blue' stood up proud under re-visit scrutiny.ĬR Into The Blue (Harry Barnett #1) (1990) - re-visit 2016ģ* The Ways of the World (The Wide World Trilogy #1) (2013) In an interview, he said "The TV version of Into the Blue was a travesty of the story I wrote and I am determined that any future adaptations should be more faithful to the original." Robert Goddard was not impressed with the adaptation. The trail leads him back to England, to a world he thought he had left for ever, and at every step of the way a new and baffling light is shed on all the assumptions that have made Harry what he is.įrom wiki: Into the Blue was adapted for television in 1997 and starred John Thaw in the lead role of Harry Barnett. Desperately, obsessed by the mystery that has changed his life, he begins to trace back the movements and encounters that led to the moment when she vanished into the blue. Under suspicion of her murder, Harry stumbles on a set of photographs taken by Heather Mallender in the weeks before her disappearance. Then a guest at the villa - a young woman he had instantly and innocently warmed to - disappears on a mountain peak. 18 hours 15 mins, read (brilliantly) by Paul Shelley.ĭescription: Harry Barnett is a middle-aged failure, leading a shabby existence in the shadow of a past disgrace, reduced to caretaking a friend's villa on the island of Rhodes and working in a bar to earn his keep.
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