Robert Goddard: The Ends of the Earth (USA 2017)

From the Publisher:
From an Edgar Award-winning author, a dazzling work of historical derring-do, as World War I flying ace-turned-spy James Maxted confronts a thirty-year-old secret -- and a lethal German foe -- in Tokyo.

Internationally bestselling author Robert Goddard has been called "a master of the sly double- and triple-cross" (Seattle Times). In the third installment of the James Maxted thriller series, starring a dashing Royal Flying Corps veteran turned secret service operative, the truth about allegiances has never been less certain.

The Treaty of Versailles has finally been signed, officially ending the World War I peace negotiations, and the action shifts east, to Tokyo, where a team assembled at Max's behest anxiously awaits his arrival on the docks. Max had arrived in Paris soon after the end of the Great War to investigate the suspicious death of his father, a British diplomat named Sir Henry, and was soon plunged into a treacherous game of cat and mouse with the people behind his father's death: German spymaster Fritz Lemmer and the dark horse of the Japanese diplomatic contingent, Count Tomura. It is in Japan, where Sir Henry worked as a young government agent, that Max hopes to finally uncover the whole truth behind his father's murder and take down Lemmer's spy network once and for all. But what Max's cohort doesn't know is that his own story line 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, The Ends of the Earth is a masterful work of historical cut-and-thrust that tests the bonds of family and country to their very limit.

Robert Goddard: The Ends of the Earth. A James Maxted Thriller. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 9780802126566 (May, 2017), 493 p., $25.00

Robert Goddard: The Ends of the Earth (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
LIES. SECRETS. REVELATIONS.
1919 - The truth has never been in such short supply

Ex-flying ace James 'Max' Maxted's attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, has seemingly ended in failure - and his own death.

Unaware of Max's fate, the team continue to pursue their only lead, travelling to Japan in search of a mysterious prisoner held by Sir Henry's old enemy, Count Tomura. Once there, they encounter former German spymaster, Fritz Lemmer, now rebuilding his spy network in the service of a new, more sinister cause.

The quest Max embarked on in Paris will reach its dizzying end at Tomura's castle in the mountains of Honshu - and the full truth of what occurred thirty years before will finally be laid bare...

Robert Goddard: The Ends of the Earth. Volume 3 in The Wide World Trilogy. Corgi, ISBN: 9780552167079 (June, 2016), 493 p., £7.99.

Robert Goddard: The Ends of the Earth (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
July 1919. Ex-flying ace James 'Max' Maxted's attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, murdered while serving as an adviser with the British delegation to the Paris peace conference, has seemingly ended in failure - and his own death.

The trail uncovered by him leads to Japan and a mysterious prisoner held by Sir Henry Maxted's old enemy, Count Tomura. Unaware of Max's fate, the team he has recruited to finish the job are already there, where their paths cross that of former German spymaster, Fritz Lemmer, now rebuilding his spy network in the service of a new, more sinister cause.

In the days and weeks ahead, the quest Max embarked on in Paris will reach its dizzying end at Tomura's castle in the mountains of Honshu - and the full truth of what occurred thirty years before will finally be laid bare...

Robert Goddard: The Ends of the Earth. The destinies of all will be decided... Bantam Books, ISBN: 9780593069790 (July, 2015), 379 p., £18.99.