Isabel Castillo Castillo itibaren 4600-644 Gondar, पुर्तगाल
Re-read of another edition 1/3/15: This book was an object lesson for me in the subtle power of W.J. Burley's prose. This was one of the first of his novels that I read and the first that I have re-read. I was more than a little surprised by how much of it I remembered - not dialogue, or even story per se, but scenes. The early scenes introducing each of the main characters and the climax scene have both lived on in my imagination; snapshots into the lives of (fictional) others. I've commented in my reviews of other Wycliffe books that Burley is masterful of this but this was clear evidence, if I needed it. As for the book. Whether you choose to see this as one of the author's best, as some think, will largely depend on how you view plot twists: masterful story telling or cheap trick? There's a hint right at the start of the book that all is not as it seems but the reader is left with no more than that hint. For much of the book we're as in the dark as the protagonist. A stroke of luck then leads to a series of very rapid developments to tidy up the threads (even some that are introduced as late). No doubt some investigations must proceed and resolve similarly but surely they're few.