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The Ends of the Earth

By: Robert Goddard
Narrated by: Elliot Chapman
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Lies. Secrets. Revelations.

1919 - The truth has never been in such short supply.

Ex-flying ace James ‘Max’ Maxted’s attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, has seemingly ended in failure - and his own death.

Unaware of Max’s fate, the team continue to pursue their only lead, travelling to Japan in search of a mysterious prisoner held by Sir Henry’s old enemy, Count Tomura. Once there, they encounter former German spymaster Fritz Lemmer, now rebuilding his spy network in the service of a new, more sinister cause.

The quest Max embarked on in Paris will reach its dizzying end at Tomura's castle in the mountains of Honshu - and the full truth of what occurred 30 years before will finally be laid bare....

©2015 Robert Goddard (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Fiction Suspense

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An old fashioned adventure book. Slightly predictable but very hard to manage if you are listening in sessions as Audible have not bothered to divide it in to ANY CHAPTERS!!

a jolly good adventure, but let down by Audible

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A good story but dragged out in parts unnecessarily. But still a good story worth listening to.

Holiday

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...years. To fit the flow of his stories the author comes up with some very odd occurrences, but then I guess if he didn't then the 3 books become 2 books. Max sees a letter at the end of the 2nd book but before he can read it, Sadiq steals it but saves him from execution by Dombreau - why save him but steal something from him? Equally in the same instance, the man is about to kill him but then is tied up himself but Max subsequently does a deal (and trusts a man who was about to execute him) with the same fellow - it just beggars belief... he doesn't then read that letter until a third of the way through the third book and you wait until half way through for him to share it with his friends (and therefore us the reader)

That said, it's a really good yarn and one both loved and recommend - usually where authors who do this are concerned, I simply get angry - but this an interesting spy story and because it is so good, I can forgive most things...

Probably the best trilogy I've listened to in...

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Struggled with this one, for all his feel for Japan, it might just as well have been Las Vegas or Lesmahagow.
Not to Goddard's usual standard.

No feel for Japan

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They would have been nice! Decent story to wrap things up, in a good storyline. Not Goddard's best, by any means, but it doesn't need to be - it's still better than most. Well-narrated (let's overlook the awful French pronunciations!), but that lack of chaptering made for a difficult tracking. What was Audible thinking?

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