Days Without Number, now published for the first time in the United
States, is classic Robert Goddard: intricately plotted, richly detailed,
and suspenseful to the very last page. Nick Paleologus, a coolly
efficient Englishman, is summoned home to resolve a dispute that
threatens to tear his family apart. His father, Michael, is a retired
archaeologist and supposed descendent of the last Emperors of Byzantium.
Michael has received a hugely generous offer for the family estate in
Cornwall, but refuses to sell--and refuses to divulge why. Soon the
stalemate between Nick's siblings and their father is tragically broken,
and only then do they discover why their father was bound to protect the
house at all costs. Their desperate efforts to conceal the truth drag
them into a deadly conflict with an unseen and unknown enemy. Soon, Nick
realizes the only change they have of escaping their persecutor's trap
is to hunt this ruthless adversary down. But the hunt involves
excavating a terrible secret from their father's past. And once that
secret is known, nothing will ever be the same again.