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Only Time Will Tell
The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, 'I was told that my father was killed in the war'. But it will be another twenty years before Harry discovers how his father really died, which will only lead him to question: who was his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who worked in Bristol docks, or the first born son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? Only Time will Tell covers the years from 1920 to 1940, and includes a cast of memorable characters that The Times has compared to The Forsyte Saga. Volume one takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford, or join the navy and go to war with Hitler's Germany. In Jeffrey Archer's masterful hands, the reader is taken on a journey that they won't want to end, and when you turn the last page of this unforgettable yarn, you will be faced with a dilemma that neither you, nor Harry Clifton could have anticipated.
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A Prison Diary
On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk. He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and during that time, as this account testifies, encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously over-stretched prison service, but the spirit and courage of his fellow inmates...
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And Thereby Hangs A Tale
The story is about Jamwal and Nisha, who fall in love while waiting at a traffic signal. Thus begins one of the 15 stories Jeffrey has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in his sixth collection of enthralling short stories named "And Thereby Hangs a Tale". "Some of the stories will make you laugh. Others will bring you to tears. And once again, every one of them will keep you spellbound."
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A Prison Diary By FF 8282
The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting - his first offence, not even convicted - and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.' On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals. This is the author's daily record of the time he spent there.
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Paths Of Glory
Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary, Neil Armstrong, and Lewis and Clark are among such individuals.But what if one man had such a dream, and once he
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Kane And Abel
They had only one thing in common ...William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one of the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant - two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. The marvellous story, spanning sixty years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save ...and finally destroy ...each other. 'Archer has a gift for plot that can only be described as genius' - "Daily Telegraph". 'Probably the greatest storyteller of our age' - "Mail on Sunday."
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The Prodigal Daughter
This is a magnificent story of love and politics that continues the saga of "Kane and Abel". The titanic battle between two men obsessed with destroying each other follows on into the next generation. Florentyna Rosnovski, Abel's daughter, inherits all her father's drive, but none of his wealth. A woman gifted with beauty and spirit, but above all with indomitable will, she sets out in pursuit of an ambition that dwarfs both Kane and Abel, as she battles for the highest office of all ...
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First Among Equals
In the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions of the race for power with their wives and families, men and women caught up in a dramatic game for the highest stakes of all. But only one man can gain the ultimate goal - the office of Prime Minister.
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A Quiver Full Of Arrows
A casual remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and the British Ambassador becomes the owner of a priceless work of art
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Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
One million dollars - that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men.
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False Impression
When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11, it takes all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her and the possible motive for her death - a priceless Van Gogh painting. But in the end, it's a young woman who was in the North Tower when the first plane crashed into the building that has the courage and determination to take on both sides of the law and avenge the old lady's death. Anna Petrescu is missing, presumed dead, after 9/11 and she uses her new status to escape from America, only to be pursued across the world from Toronto to London, to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bucharest, but it is only when she returns to New York that the mystery unfolds.
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A Twist In The Tale
A lover calls unexpectedly on his mistress and watches another man leave her flat. He accuses her of being unfaithful, quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unnoticed, he tips off the police to ensure the other man is arrested and charged. Has he achieved the perfect murder?
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A Prisoner Of Birth
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend.And when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat and the youngest partner in an established firm
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Not A Penny More Not A Penny Less
सिद्धहस्त कथालेखक जेफ्री आर्चर ह्यांच्या वाचकांना खिळवून ठेवणार्या कादंबर्यांपैकी ही एक अत्युत्तम कादंबरी. फसवेगिरीच्या आणि बदनामी होऊ शकेल, अशा गुंतागुंतीच्या घटना घडतात आणि मग त्यांचा व्यवस्थित बदला घेतला जातो, तो कसा; ह्याची अत्यंत कौशल्यपूर्ण गुंफण. ऑक्सफर्डचा एक प्रोफेसर, लंडनमधील एक प्रतिष्ठित उच्चभ्रू डॉक्टर, एक फॅशनेबल फ्रेंच आर्ट - डीलर आणि मोहक व्यक्तिमत्त्व असलेला एक इंग्लिश लॉर्ड - ह्या सगळ्यांमध्ये समान धागा तो काय असणार ? तसं पाहिलं, तर कुठलाच नाही ! पण ह्या सगळ्यांना हार्वे मेट्काफ नावाच्या, आंतरराष्ट्रीय शेअरबाजारात अफाट उलाढाल्याकरणार्या लफंग्यानं संपूर्णपणे लुंगवलेलं असतं! आणि त्यांचे पैसे परत मिळण्याची त्यांना थोडीही आशा नसते ! की असते ? आणखी नुकसान होणं शक्यच नसतं, म्हणून ही चार अगदी आगळीवेगळी माणसं एकत्र येतात, आणि काही अफाट, भन्नाट योजना आखतात. त्या योजना पार पाडतापाडता, ते ऑक्सफर्ड युनिव्हर्सिटीच्या विख्यात इमारती, जुगाराचे जगप्रसिद्ध अड्डे असलेलं मॉंटे कार्लो, पॅरिसमधल्या एका हॉस्पिटलचं ऑपरेशन थिएटर, लंडनच्या उच्चभ्रू आर्ट गॅलर्या, ऍस्कॉटच्या घोड्यांचं रेसकोर्स, तसंच, विम्बल्डनच्या टेनिस कोर्टावरही जाऊन पोचतात! हे सगळं कशासाठी ? हार्वे मेट्काफनं चोरलेले त्यांचे पैसे परत मिळवण्यासाठी ! अगदी एक न् एक पैसा !
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Sons Of Fortune
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Jeffrey Archer-returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny. In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is parted at birth-not by accident. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman, while his twin brother begins his days as Fletcher Davenport, son of a millionaire and his society wife. During the 1950s and 1960s, the two brothers grow up apart, following similar paths that take them in different directions. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam, then finishes school, earns his MBA, and becomes a successful currency dealer. Fletcher, meanwhile, graduates from Yale University with a bachelor's and a law degree, going on to distinguish himself as a criminal defense lawyer.At various times in their lives, both men are confronted with challenges and obstacles, tragedy and betrayal, loss and hardship, before they both decide to run for governor, unaware they are brothers....In the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's most popular books, Sons of Fortune is as much a chronicle of a nation in transition as it is the story of the making of these two men -and how they eventually discover the truth-and its tragic consequences.