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Found Wanting
by: Robert Goddard

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780593060230
ISBN: 0593060237
Label: Bantam Press
Manufacturer: Bantam Press
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: September 11, 2008
Publisher: Bantam Press
Studio: Bantam Press
Sales Rank: 7229

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Too much of the same.....
A civil servant (Richard Eusden) is drawn into helping his best friend, who is dying, deliver a simple errand. But nothing is as it seems in a Goddard novel and Eusden is soon trying to solve a mystery related to the Russian Royal Family.

The classic Goddard trademarks are there - lies and coincidences hold the plot together as the hapless Eusden goes country-hopping to get to the bottom of things. He even has to deal with his best friend being as deceptive as most of the other characters in the book.

I have read all of Goddard's prior novels and can't help but conclude that this latest effort has all been done before, albeit that one of the threads is different with the introduction of the Tsarina angle. I also think ... Read More:

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- Found Wanting
Started off good, got lost in the middle, read the last chapter - hugely disappointed.

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- Found Wanting a True Goddard Thriller!
Robert Goddard has been called "master of the twist" and you really cannot go wrong with any of the delightful mystery/thrillers he has written.

This being said, "Found Wanting" is one of his less impressive efforts and does not deliver the classic Goddard twist. The premise is an interesting one - a man seeking to uncover the truth about the infamous Anastasia and a woman who had claimed to be the Russian Grand Duchess. However, Goddard proceeds in this novel to hit the reader with a slew of characters (many of whom barely live through a chapter) and so many European/Eastern European locations that your head will be spinning in an attempt to keep track of the plot. The climax is mostly unsatisfying and the entire ride feels like ... Read More:

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- What has happened to Mr.Goddard? ...
I have been a fan of Robert Goddard for ages & ordered this from the library.
At first I was really drawn in with the promised excitement of a plot featuring the Anastasia mystery ~ something which has fascinated me in real life, and yes it started ok with the adventures in Europe of Richard & Marty, however as others have said ... THEN it changed.

I found the frenetic pace, short chapters & plethora of characters (many of which were not very developed) became too much to concentrate on and the Scandinavian names & occasional untranslated little phrases just far too annoying, unfamiliar and frequent.
This made it all a bit of an ordeal to get through to the end and while the ending satisfied, the book as a ... Read More:

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- Decline continues
It gives me no pleasure to agree with most others here that this is another poor book by a writer who used to be one of my favourites. There's nothing here other than a frenetic rush around Scandinavia -is there? I'm glad someone else didn't really understand the ending but by then I'd long lost interest anyway. I thought the story and theories about Anastasia had been played out long ago and exhausted so why Goddard has to chew over the bones as well might indicate how desperate he's getting for 'new' plot material. Perhaps he's writing too often - he hasn't been anywhere near his old self for about ten years. I've also just finished Jeffrey Archer's 'Prisoner of Birth' and frankly, it's better.

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