_ Eddie and Amanda Rusk have spent the last seven years adjusting miserably to the disappearance of their six-year old daughter. In a last ditch effort to save their failing marriage they begin to travel. A catamaran ride in the Caribbean takes a tragic turn. They're stranded on an island that shouldn't possibly exist...and all hell breaks loose.

‘You’re all dead,’ Eddie blurted out. At least he didn’t say should be dead.
‘No one dies here for long,’ Hitler answered as he dealt the cards. He placed one in front of each of them, face down. A final card he placed in front of himself, face up—a five of spades. ‘Can you beat me?’ The question was meant for all of them but his unblinking glare never left Eddie. Goebbels shook his head and laid down a three of diamonds. Himmler and Koch peeked at theirs and nodded without showing. Eddie looked at his card—jack of spades. He nodded as well.
Hitler’s mustache twitched. ‘Are you certain?’
Eddie nodded again without looking at the others.
‘What are you willing to wager?’
‘I have nothing left...my life, I suppose. But if I win, my wife comes back to me and we get to leave this place. Immediately.’
‘Don’t be foolish, you’ve just arrived. Why don’t you start with something smaller…your tie perhaps.’
Eddie turned his card over, not particularly happy to have won. The last thing he wanted to see was Adolf Hitler with even less clothes on.
‘You lose,’ Hitler stated. ‘The tie, please.’
Eddie leaned forward and studied the cards again. ‘I…didn’t lose. Jack beats five.’
‘You lose,’ Hitler repeated. ‘The tie.’
Eddie looked to the other Nazis for help. Himmler showed his card, a ten of clubs. Koch’s, a queen of hearts. ‘So did they lose as well?’
Hitler was sneering; he hadn’t blinked since Eddie took his chair. ‘Tens and queens beat fives, stupid. Have you never played cards before?’

            An Amazon review posted by Catherine Cavendish

The premise of this story is deceptively simple. What if you'd made a bit of a hash of it the first time around and someone gave you the chance to live most of your life again - AND you'd be able to remember all the mistakes you made?

This is what happens to the book's main character, Hugh. Now, if it happened to you, you'd have a perfect life wouldn't you? You'd be so much wiser.

Actually no, you'd probably go off and commit a whole set of new mistakes and that is precisely what Hugh does - sometimes to devastating effect.

I loved this book. I really cared what happened next and Hugh was flawed but likable as the main character so that resonated well too. I don't know Geoff's work but I'll be looking out for it in the future. This is the kind of book I will almost certainly read again - and I don't do that very often these days!