NEVER GO BACK
Robert Goddard
Delta
Mystery
ISBN-10: 038534063X
ISBN-13: 9780385340632
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In the spellbinding new mystery by the master of “the clever twist,”
a group of ex-RAF comrades journey to a Scottish castle for a reunion. But by
the time they reach their destination, two of them are dead.
Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver with his wife and daughter
when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to
spend just a few days sorting out her affairs when a chance meeting he will
regret for the rest of his life makes him change his plans. Two old acquaintances
from his National Service days track Harry down to his mother’s house
— the last address they had for him. A lavish reunion has been organized
to mark the fiftieth anniversary of their RAF days. Harry decides to go.
During the war, Harry and his fellow RAF conscripts spent three months in a
Scottish castle where they acted as guinea pigs in a psychological experiment.
The reunion is to take place in the same castle. It will be a chance to see
friends, settle old scores and lay a few ghosts to rest.
The party begins on the train up to Aberdeen, until the apparent suicide of
one of their number shatters the holiday atmosphere. Their arrival in Scotland
seems under a cloud, and when another comrade dies soon after their arrival,
Harry is gripped by a sense of foreboding. As well, the recollections of the
old comrades of their time in the castle are frighteningly different, and unexplained
events from 1955 still haunt them. As Harry tries to solve the mystery of what
really happened fifty years ago, he uncovers an extraordinary secret that convinces
him he will never leave the castle alive.
NEVER GO BACK © Copyright 2008 by Robert Goddard. Reprinted with permission by Delta. All rights reserved.
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