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  <title><![CDATA[Play to the End]]></title>
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  <default_description>Once Toby Flood played a Bond-like hero in a Hollywood film. Now he&amp;#8217;s serving a sentence in a crippled traveling production of a newly unearthed Joe Orton play&amp;#8212;a play that might have saved Toby&amp;#8217;s career if only someone enjoyed watching it. Painfully, the show&amp;#8217;s swan song is coming in Brighton, where Toby&amp;#8217;s wife happens to be living happily with another man in anticipation of a divorce decree. Then, almost as if he were scripted, a stranger enters the scene....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A stalker is frightening Toby&amp;#8217;s wife, Jenny, who believes the man is probably one of her estranged husband&amp;#8217;s fans. When Jenny asks Toby to confront the man, Toby leaps at the chance. Soon, he&amp;#8217;s moonlighting from the stage lights and heroically pursuing... something. The truth is, the more Toby finds out about Jenny&amp;#8217;s stalker, the more questions he has about a twisting tale of unexplained deaths, interlocking lives, and the violent, greedy adventures of none other than Jenny&amp;#8217;s wealthy fianc&#233;&amp;#8212;a man who might make the perfect villain, if only the hero lives long enough to prove it....</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2004</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Goddard]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think someone else has said that he/she was wondering why the main characters don't just call the police instead of trying to play Miss Marples. Valid question - the idea that Toby wants to win back his wife so much that he wants to &quot;do what a man's gotta do&quot; is a bit thin. He's a fading...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74343167">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second time I have read this book (nearly finished it)and it is as good second time around as the first.  Goddard always delights. A great writer and a thrilling read. ]]></body>
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    <review id="42975131">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jan 19 14:44:03 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Started out slow and I almost gave up but didn't have anything else to read. Now I am into the story and will finish it.<br/>I started enjoying this book but it is not going to become a favorite author.]]></body>
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    <review id="11359875">
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 31 16:18:16 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a British thriller of sorts.  Our hero is an actor who stars in a weak play touring England.  He lands in Brighton, where is (separated) wife has taken up with a local industrialist with a secret past.  THe characters are witty and the plot is complicated, but frankly, it is hard to buy into...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11359875">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amusing.  Well thought out plot.]]></body>
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    <review id="27337153">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first Robert Goddard novel, but it certainly will not be my last. This story is wonderfully plotted, fluid and intelligent. Duplicity and intrigue are the order of the day and will keep you reading. Unlike most mystery/suspense novels, Mr. Goddard's manipulations and story telling experti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27337153">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Much of the plot was frustrating and tedious.  I understand there wouldn't be much of a book if the characters called the police instead of doing their own investigation but I really wished they'd had better reasons for not doing so.  Near the end, I got so angry with the stupid stuff the main chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6192546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, a very entertaining page-turner.  Goddard is a very talented writer.  The book fulfills its purpose, but it lacks real depth.  It has no real meaning beyond its surface value.  That is why I give it only 3 stars.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the twists are predictable but many are not, and Goddard gets his characters true to type even they can be a bit stock.]]></body>
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