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Rules of Engagement

出版	AuthorHouse, 2008
主題	Fiction / General
ISBN	14343761259781434376121
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oIyDNAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋John Gothard, a student of hydraulics, takes a vacation job one summer in a private hotel close by a small Sussex village not far from the South Downs. In common with similar establishments, things are not all they seem on the surface. The Priory has all manner of problems going for it. Apart from the fact that this story takes place in one of the hottest summers of the century, and that things come to a tragic close, there is no resemblance to L P Hartleys "The Go Between". Rules of Engagement is the first of a quartet of novels chronicling some of the events in the life of John Gothard. The second book, Two-years Two-months, looks at Gothard's immediate post-graduate years when he is required to undertake prescribed civilian duties instead of military National Service. In Autumn Journey, the unmarried Gothard is now in his early middle-age. Latterly he has pursued an academic career in hydraulic engineering following a more active career in the field. He has a holiday cottage in the north of Britain where he spends most of his vacations. This autumn is different. Instead, quite unaccountably, he finds respite from London's academia, not at his holiday home, but in a large country house lived in by a widow and her young Down's syndrome daughter. Finally, Lamentoso finds our subject returning to the old family house to tidy things up following the death of his aged mother. There he encounters, quite unexpectedly, his half-brother who is intent on making trouble by raking over the past. His second cousin, Jessica, also thinks she has a claim on him - an emotional one. He meets two other women who are to play an important part in his life at this stage. Once again an injection of passion ensures that things lead to tragedy. John Vetterlein 2000 June