From the internationally bestselling author and "master of the sly
double- and triple-cross" (Seattle Times), Robert Goddard, The Ends
of the Earth is the third installment of the James Maxted thriller
series, starring a charismatic Royal Fly-ing Corps veteran-turned-spy.
It is 1919, the Treaty of Versailles has been signed, and a team
assembled at Max's behest now anxiously awaits his arrival in Tokyo. Max
had traveled to Paris after the end of the Great War to investigate the
suspicious death of his diplomat father, Sir Henry Maxted, and was soon
plunged into a treacherous game of cat and mouse with the people behind
the murder: German spymaster Fritz Lemmer and the dark horse of the
Japanese diplomatic contingent, Count Tomura. It is in Japan--the
country of Max's birth, where Sir Henry worked early in his career--that
Max hopes to finally uncover the truth behind his father's de-mise and
take down Lemmer's spy network once and for all. But what Max's co-hort
doesn't know is that his own story seems to have come to an end in
France. Stuck in limbo, the team decides to pursue their only
lead--right into Lemmer's den.
Loaded with death threats, knife fights, a kidnapping or two, and a
coded list that has the power to dismantle whole governmental
hierarchies, this is a masterful work of historical cut-and-thrust that
tests the bonds of family and country to their very limit.
