Caught in the Light [Import] [Paperback]

Robert Goddard (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 399 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Press (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0593043723
• ISBN-13: 978-0593043721
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,008,764 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling: even in the light things are not what they seem, July 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Caught in the Light (Hardcover)

The first Goddard I read. The metaphor of light reflected from his previous novels - Painting the Darkness, Into the Blue, In Pale Batallions. Light even plays an important role in the cover drawings in the Corgi editions of Borrowed Time and Out of the Sun. A web of intrigue enters the life of a photographer, and all he meet are eventually seen, in another light, to be working for his downfall. Worth a transit through Gatwick or Heathrow to buy, but now easily available through Amazon. As with other Goddards, the people seem "normal," and that is what makes the possibility of hidden forces reaching out and turning life upside down seem so convincing.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars CAUGHT IN A BLINDING LIGHT OF INTRIGUE, May 15, 2007

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This review is from: Caught in the Light (Hardcover)

This is a novel of love, loss, deception and amateur detection. Part ghost story, part historical mystery with a visit to the magical beginnings of early photography thrown in for good measure.

Goddard has outdone himself in executing this intricate suspense filled plot loaded with double-crosses, theft and murder as well as the deeper themes of love and loss.

Goddard's talent is such that this acrostic like "puzzle" engages the reader completely....and each time you think you have the solution you are given yet another piece of the puzzle that takes you in another direction.

Although I sometimes became infuriated with our "hero", Ian Jarrett, wanting to shout out, "Why don't you just use the phone and call rather than going there", the resolution of the story came as quite a heartbreaking suprise.

I do not like to give long, in-depth descriptions of the story (why buy the book and read it if every plot point his been disclosed in a review). Suffice to say, readers will not be disappointed and will find themselves caught in the light of Goddard's storytelling genius.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, November 15, 2005

By 

M. A. Sajeev "KIDSDOC" (LOWER COLLYMORE ROCK, ST MICHAEL Barbados) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Caught in the Light (Hardcover)

Blending the past and present seamlessly, Goddard had written a brilliant novel that keeps the reader guessing from one page to the next. The totally believable initial encounter between Jarret and Marian sets the stage for the events that follow.How does one explain a physical and torridly sexual tryst with an enchanting woman who lived in another century? This is where Goddard's skill lies--he spins a sensitive and thrilling romance where it all seems so very possible.