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Twelve Red Herrings (ट्वेल्व्ह रेड हेरिंग्ज).
तुरुंगात खितपत पडलेल्या एका कैद्याची खात्री असते की, ज्याच्या खुनाचा त्याच्यावर आरोप आहे, तो माणूस जिवंत आहे... एक चंचल सुंदरी चतुराईनं नवरा आणि नवीन धनिक सावजाकडून वाढदिवसाची भेट मिळवते... वडिलांच्या सांगण्याप्रमाणे नौकानयनपटूने बोटक्लब हाउसला भेट म्हणून दिलेल्या ऐतिहासिक वस्तूचीच चोरी होते... कथा-कादंबरी लेखकाला स्तंभलेखन करणारा त्याचा मित्र भोजनादरम्यान जी कल्पना ऐकवतो त्यावर लेखकाने आधीच कादंबरी लिहिलेली असते... एक धोकादायक वाटणारा माणूस एका महिला-ड्रायव्हरचा हायवेवर पाठलाग करतो... एका तरुण कलावतीला आयुष्यातली सर्वांत मोठी संधी मिळते... चतुर मांडणी, अनोखी व्यक्तिमत्त्वं, कल्पक कथानक आणि अनपेक्षित शेवट असलेल्या बारा कथांचा संग्रह ‘ट्वेल्व्ह रेड हेरिंग्ज.’
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Nothing Ventured
William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London’s Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of his first mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques squad. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth Rainsford, a research assistant at the gallery who he falls hopelessly in love with, even as Beth guards a secret of her own that she’s terrified will come to light. While William follows the trail of the missing masterpiece, he comes up against suave art collector Miles Faulkner and his brilliant lawyer, Booth Watson QC, who are willing to bend the law to breaking point to stay one step ahead of William. Meanwhile, Miles Faulkner’s wife, Christina, befriends William, but whose side is she really on? Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s number one Sunday Times bestselling The Clifton Chronicles: telling the story of the life of William Warwick – as a family man and a detective who will battle throughout his career against a powerful criminal nemesis. Through twists, triumph and tragedy, this series will show that William Warwick is destined to become one of Jeffrey Archer’s most enduring legacies.
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Heads You Win
Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America, or Great Britain? Alexander leaves that choice to the toss of a coin . . . In a single moment, a double twist decides Alexander’s future. During an epic tale of fate and fortune, spanning two continents and thirty years, we follow his triumphs and defeats as he struggles as an immigrant to conquer his new world. As this unique story unfolds, Alexander comes to realize where his destiny lies, and accepts that he must face the past he left behind in Russia. With a final twist that will shock even his most ardent fans, this is international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel.
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Best Kept Secret Part-3 (बेस्ट केप्ट सीक्रेट खंड-३
बॅरिंग्टन हे लंडनमधील एक सधन आणि नामवंत घराणं. ह्यूगो बॅरिंग्टन हा त्या घराण्याचा वंशज. गाइल्स आणि एमा ही त्याची दोन अपत्यं. हॅरी क्लिप्टन हा ह्यूगोचा अनौरस मुलगा. ह्यूगोची झालेली हत्या, हॅरी क्लिप्टन आणि एमा बॅरिंग्टन यांच्या लग्नाला चर्चने केलेली मनाई, ह्यूगोच्या हत्येनंतर बॅरिंग्टन घराण्याच्या वारसाबाबत न्यायालयात उभा राहिलेला वाद, या प्रकरणात गाइल्सच्या बाजूने लागलेला निकाल, त्यानंतर हॅरी व एमाचा झालेला विवाह, त्यानंतर त्यांच्या मुलाचा सॅबेस्टियनचा जन्म, ह्यूगोच्या एका महिलेशी असलेल्या अनैतिक संबंधातून जन्माला आलेली मुलगी जेसिका हिला एमा आणि हॅरीने दत्तक घेणे, यथावकाश सॅबेस्टियनचा तारुण्यात प्रवेश, गाइल्सचा निवडणुकीत विजय, एमा आणि गाइल्सच्या आईचा एलिझाबेथचा मृत्यू, मृत्यूसमयी तिने हॅरीच्या हातात दिलेला लिफाफा, खट्याळ पण अतिशय हुशार असणारा सेबॅस्टियन एका डॉनच्या जाळ्यात सापडणं, डॉनचा सज्जन मुलगा ब्रूनोशी सेबॅस्टियनची चांगली मैत्री होणं, सेबॅस्टियनकडून आपल्या बनावट नोटा रोदिनने बनवलेल्या एका पुतळ्यातून इंग्लंडमध्ये आणण्याचा बेत डॉनने रचणं, सेबॅस्टियनला याची कल्पनाच नसणं, या बेताचा सुगावा पोलिसांसहित हॅरी, एमा आणि गाइल्सलाही लागणं, त्याच वेळी सेबॅस्टियनाला केंब्रिज विद्यापीठाची शिष्यवृत्ती मिळाल्याची बातमीही सर्वांना समजणं अशा नाट्यपूर्ण घटनांसाठी आणि डॉन या बनावट नोटा इंग्लंडमध्ये आणण्यात यशस्वी होतो का, डॉनच्या तावडीतून सुटून सेबॅस्टियन आपल्या आई-वडिलांचे केंब्रिज विद्यापीठात त्याने शिक्षण घ्यावे हे स्वप्न पूर्ण करू शकेल का, हे जाणून घेण्यासाठी ‘बेस्ट केप्ट सिक्रेट’ हे पुस्तक वाचलं पाहिजे.
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Be Careful What You Wish For Part-4 (बी केअरफुल व्
‘बी केअरफुल व्हॉट यु विश फॉर’ हा ‘बेस्ट केप्ट सिक्रेट’चा पुढचा भाग आहे. या कादंबरीची सुरुवात होते, ती एमाला सॅबेस्टियनचा अपघाती मृत्यू झाल्याची बातमी समजते, अशा थरारक आणि भावपूर्ण प्रसंगाने. या कादंबरीचा प्रवास नंतरही रोमांचकतेने आणि भावात्मकतेने सुरू राहतो. सॅबेस्टियन या अपघातातून वाचला आहे आणि आपला मुलगा ब्रुनो अपघातात मरण पावला आहे., हे समजल्यावर डॉन मार्टिनेझ संतापाने वेडापिसा होतो आणि मग बॅरिंग्टन कुटुंबाच्या तो हात धुऊन मागे लागतो. बॅरिंग्टन कंपनीच्या बकिंगहॅम जहाजाच्या बांधणीचं काम चालू असताना तिथल्या डायरेक्टरला हटवण्याचा प्रयत्न करणे, शेअर बाजारात बॅरिंग्टन यांची कंपनी भुईसपाट होण्यासाठी प्लॅन करणे, जेसिकाचा खून करणे आणि बकिंगहॅम जहाजावर बॉम्बस्फोट घडवून आणायची योजना आखणे इ. थरारक घटनांतून बॅरिंग्टन कुटुंब आणि डॉन मार्टिनेझ यांच्यातील तीव्र संघर्ष रंगविणारी ही रहस्यमय, उत्कंठावर्धक कादंबरी वाचलीच पाहिजे.
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Tell Tale
Master storyteller Jeffrey Archer returns with Tell Tale, a new collection of brilliant short stories. Poignant, engrossing and captivating; this is Archer at his spellbinding best. Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited, brand-new collection TELL TALE, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. +AS401 Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than she bargained for in A Wasted Hour. These wonderfully engaging and always refreshingly original tales prove not only why Archer has been compared by the critics to Dahl and Maugham, but why he was described by The Times as probably the greatest storyteller of our age.
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Cometh The Hour
#1 number series on the Sunday Times bestseller list showcases Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists.Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves,from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him,or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Nadira, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings. Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. Harry's wife Emma convinces her new friend Margaret Thatcher to raise the subject with the Russian President when she visits Moscow. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.
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Honour Among Thieves
Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? the time, 1993. the place, Washington DC. of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate
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Mightier than the Sword
Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the M. V. Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic-but how many passengers lose their lives? When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing a book called Uncle Joe, a devastating insight into what it was like to work for Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book published, that he puts his own life in danger. His wife Emma, chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of the IRA attack on the Buckingham. Some board members feel she should resign and Lady Virginia Fenwick will stop at nothing to cause Emma's downfall. Sir Giles Barrington is now a minister of the Crown and looks set for even higher office, until an official trip to Berlin does not end as a diplomatic success. Once again, Giles's political career is thrown off balance by none other than his old adversary, Major Alex Fisher, who once again stands against him at the election. But who wins this time? In London, Harry and Emma's son, Sebastian, is quickly making a name for himself at Farthing's Bank in London and has proposed to the beautiful young American, Samantha. But the despicable Adrian Sloane, a man interested only in his own advancement and the ruin of Sebastian, will stop at nothing to remove his rival. Jeffrey Archer's compelling Clifton Chronicles continue in this, his most accomplished novel to date. With all the trademark twists and turns that have made him one of the world's most popular authors, the spellbinding story of the Clifton and the Barrington families continues.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
Be Careful What You Wish For is a best-selling suspense novel from master storyteller Jeffrey Archer. The fourth installment of The Clifton Chronicles, the book continues with Henry Clifton's story and follows the Clifton and Barrington families into the sixties. Summary of the Book When Harry and Emma Clifton hear about their son Sebastian's car accident, they rush to the hospital unsure whether it was their son who died or his best friend Bruno. Meanwhile, Don Pedro schemes to install Major Alex Fisher into Ross Buchanan's seat as the chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, a seat that Emma desires following Buchanan's forced retirement. The Barrington family firm is threatened by Pedro's intentions just as the firm stands to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham. In London, Harry and Emma's adopted daughter finds love in the Slade Academy of Art. However all delight at the news of the wedding vanishes when an old friend, Lady Virgina Fenwick, appears. Events take a turn when a hitherto unknown Yorkshireman, Cedric Hardcastle, takes a place in the board of Barrington's firm, changing the lives of both families.
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Best Kept Secret
The third novel in Jeffrey Archer's compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles 1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellors deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her fathers office on the night he was killed. When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emmas son, who ultimately influences his uncles fate. In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family march onto the page. After Sebastian is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger? Best Kept Secret will answer all these questions, but once again, pose so many more.
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The Collected Short Stories
A collected edition of the master storyteller's short stories This brand new edition brings together three of Jeffrey Archer’s classic collections of short stories. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from an imprisoned man who is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive, to a female driver pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle. An offhand remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor in one tale, while a British diplomat unexpectedly becomes the owner of a priceless work of art in another . . . And over three of the stories, discover a hauntingly written, atmospheric account of two undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties: a tale of bitter rivalry that ends in a memorable love story. These stories are packed full of the master storyteller’s unexpected twists, richly drawn characters and ingenious, witty denouements – some will make you laugh, others will bring you to tears. And, as always, every one of them will keep you spellbound.
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The Sins of the Father
New York, 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks, a top Manhattan lawyer, offers his services for nothing, penniless Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a lighter sentence. After Tom is tried, found guilty and sentenced, Jelks disappears, and the only way for him to prove his innocence would be to reveal his true identity - something that he has sworn never to do in order to protect the woman he loves. Meanwhile, the young woman in question travels to New York, leaving their son behind in England, having decided she'll do whatever it takes to find the man she was to marry - unwilling to believe that he died at sea. The only proof she has is a letter. A letter that has remained unopened on a mantelpiece in Bristol for over a year. In Jeffrey Archer's epic novel, family loyalties are stretched to their limits as secrets unravel, and the story moves from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan. Join the great storyteller on a journey where there are no stop signs, no cul-de-sacs and no dead ends.
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The Eleventh Commandment
Connor Fitzgerald is the professional's professional. Holder of the Medal of Honor. Devoted family man. Servant of his country. The CIA's most deadly weapon. But for the past 28 years, Fitzgerald has been leading a double life. And only days from his retirement from the Agency, he comes across an enemy even he cannot handle. The enemy is his own boss, helen Dexter, the Director of the CIA.Thou Shalt Not Be Caught.But Dexter's stranglehold on the agency is threatened by a power greater than her own, and her only hope is to destroy Fitzgerald. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a new threat to national security is emerging: a ruthless hardline Russian president who is determined to force a military confrontation between the two superpowers. It's up to the intrepid Fitzgerald to pull off his most daring mission yet--save the world.and his own life.
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To Cut a Long Story Short.
The latest short-story collection from the master storyteller. The fourteen - all new - stories show Jeffrey Archer's great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tail. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service - but for a good cause. The last story, 'The Grass is Always Greener', is possibly the best piece Archer has written, and will haunt you for the rest of your life.
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As the Crow Flies
Jeffrey Archer, one of the greatest popular novelists of our generation, delivers a truly page-turning thriller in this re-issued classic Jeffrey has had six consecutive Number Ones and is the only author to reach the top of the charts across non-fiction, fiction and short stories 'Archer has a gift for plot that can only be described as genius' Daily Telegraph 'Stylish, witty and constantly entertaining . . . Jeffrey Archer has a natural aptitude for short stories' The Times Pan Macmillan is proud to be the home of all of Jeffrey Archer’s titles