Targeting the beautiful daughter of a wealthy munitions dealer in the hopes of receiving a payoff from her father, scam artists Guy Horton and Max Wingate find their plan upset when Max really falls in love.
Set aboard a transatlantic cruise crossing in the 1930s, Guy stumbles through twists and turns while uncovering truths that may turn out to be lies in the end. Crimes committed in the past always come back to haunt the protagonists in the present.
A masterful story teller, Goddard writes in beautiful prose as the story sees its heroes drawn ever deeper into a web of deception. One of Goddard’s very best, like watching a Hitchcock movie unfold.
