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At the end of The Prodigal Daughter Florentyna Kane is elected President — the first woman President of the United States. At 7.30 one evening the FBI learn of a plot to kill her — the 1572nd threat of the year. An hour late five people know all the details — by 9.30 four of them are dead.

FBI agent Mark Andrews alone knows when. He also knows that a senator is involved. He has six days to learn where — and how. Six days to prevent certain death of the President.

A MATTER OF HONOUR shows world best-selling author, Jeffrey Archer, writing at the very height of his compelling powers. Not since John Buchan’s THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS has a novel of pursuit and suspense unravelled with such breathtaking pace.

Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father’s will, aware that the financial benefit can only be pitiful. The colonel, after all, had nothing to leave — except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter, Adam fears, which can only bring further dishonour to the family name.

Should Adam open the letter and discover what had caused his father to leave the regiment in disgrace and force him to resign his commission? His mother begs him not to, but the moment he does so he realises his life can never be the same again. The contents leave him no choice but to follow a course that his father would have described as “A MATTER OF HONOUR”

Colonel Scott’s bequest leads Adam first to a Russian icon of Saint George and the Dragon that had once belonged to the last Tsar, before being left to Colonel Scott himself. Now the Russians want it back, having discovered its secret which could change the balance of world power.

Thus begins a story that no reader will be able to put down until the final page. Jeffrey Archer, author of KANE AND ABEL and FIRST AMONG EQUALS, has achieved his greatest triumph to date.

Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster.

Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team. Maverick ex-undercover operative Ross Hogan is charged with a very sensitive — and unique — responsibility. But it soon becomes clear the problems in Royalty Protection are just the beginning. A renegade organization has the security of the country — and the Crown — in its sights. The only question is which target is next in line...

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 in the North Tower when the first plane crashed into the building who 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.

False Impression

Финал уже близок. Пора сдернуть завесу тайн и раскрыть все карты. Но лучше бы некоторые тайны остались неразгаданными, потому как, чем больше откроется правды, тем больше она похожа на выдумку. Ведомый интригами высших сил, главный герой окажется в эпицентре стремительно развивающихся событий. Мир который вы знали навсегда изменился, и начались те изменения в заброшенном храме падшего, а ныне павшего Бога.

It is Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940’s, and a set of twins is separated at birth by a desperate nurse. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as Fletcher Andrew Davenport, son of a wealthy CEO and his society wife.

During the years that follow, the two brothers grow up unaware of each other’s existence. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam. Returning a war hero, he finishes school and goes on to become a successful bank executive. Fletcher, meanwhile, has graduated from Yale University and distinguishes himself as a criminal defence lawyer before he is elected a senator. As their lives unfold, both men are confronted with tragedy and betrayal, loss and hardship, all the time overcoming life’s obstacles to become the men they are destined to be.

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, eventually, they come to find each other...

First Among Equals

Raymond Gould, Andrew Fraser,Simon Kerslake,Charles Seymour,

Cometh the Hour

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 Priya, 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, . But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.

A man decides to visit his mistress. But on arrival, he sees her embracing another man. He waits for the interloper to leave, then goes in, starts an argument with the woman, strikes her and it results in her death. Having left the flat without being seen, he tips off the police about the interloper, who is charged. Has he achieved

This is just the first of the tantalising to be asked in twelve superb works of fiction by the greatest of modern storytellers, Jeffrey Archer.

A game of chess with a sexy stranger; a violent argument in a golf club bar; a wine expert challenged to a tasting with a bizarre difference are some of the other intriguing starting-points for a set of cunningly constructed and marvellously entertaining stories from the author of such classic novels as A MATTER OF HONOUR, KANE AND ABEL and NOT PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS.

Told with wit and sophistication, nerve-tingling suspense and champagne style, here are a dozen mysterious adventures that keep the pages turning at breakneck speed.

The time, 1993. The place, Washington DC. The President of the United States, George Bush, has been replaced. In London, Margaret Thatcher has been ousted by her own party. In Moscow, Gorbachev has been toppled by forces he could not control. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. End Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate.

With the connivance of a Mafia boss, the world’s greatest forget and one of the Presigent’s Special Assistants Saddam sets about his plan. Its purpose: the humiliation of the American people.

An unlikely figure finds himself caught up in the middle of this drama — Scott Bradley, a young professor at Yale Law School. Bradley is sent by the CIA on a simple mission to discover why a beautiful young Mossad agent has been dropped into the Iraqi Interest Section of the Jordanian Embassy in Paris, and unexpectedly begins to unravel this extraordinary plot.

Can a Mossad agent and a Yale professor stop Saddam before Independence Day?

International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with his most ambitious work of epic storytelling – a multi-generational saga of fate, fortune, and redemption that began with ONLY TIME WILL TELL.

On the heels of the international bestseller ONLY TIME WILL TELL, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles.

Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets recently revealed, and forced to admit that his wish to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw. When Bradshaw dies in the night, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past and assumes his identity.

But on landing in America, he quickly learns the risks of such a scheme, when he discovers what is awaiting Bradshaw in New York. Without any way of proving his true identity, Harry Clifton is now chained to a past that might be far worse than the one he had hoped to escape.

¿Por qué una anciana es asesinada en su mansión de Inglaterra la madrugada del 11 de septiembre de 2001?

¿Por qué un exitoso banquero de Nueva York no se sorprende al recibir por correo la oreja de una vieja dama?

¿Por qué un prestigioso abogado trabaja para un único cliente sin cobrar honorarios?

¿Por qué una joven ejecutiva roba un Van Gogh si no es una ladrona?

¿Por qué una brillante licenciada trabaja como secretaria después de heredar una fortuna?

¿Por qué una atleta cobra un millón de dólares por cumplir una misión?

¿Por qué una aristócrata estaría dispuesta a matar si sabe que pasará el resto de su vida en prisión?

¿Por qué un magnate japonés del acero va a dar una fuerte suma de dinero a una mujer a la que no conoce?

¿Por qué un experto agente del FBI tiene que averiguar cuál es la conexión entre estas ocho personas aparentemente sin relación entre ellas?

Las respuestas a todas estas preguntas las da esta absorbente novela: en ella, una conspiración internacional, cuyo objetivo es uno de los lienzos más valiosos del mundo, introduce al lector en el mercado negro del arte, desde Nueva York hasta Londres, desde Bucarest hasta Tokio, tras las huellas de falsificadores y asesinos a sueldo, en un relato cuya lectura no da tregua.

Jeffrey Archer, con su habitual maestría narrativa, presenta en su última novela una apasionante historia marcada por un insólito cruce de destinos: dos hermanos gemelos separados al nacer y que desconocían la existencia del otro, se reencuentran treinta años más tarda como rivales políticos. Ambos pertenecen a familias de distinta extracción social y credo ideológico, pero el azar propiciará que sea Fletcher quien defienda a su hermano Nat, acusaso del asesinato de su rival en las elecciones a gobernador. Cuando Fletcher sufra un accidente y sea necesario conseguir sangre de un grupo muy extraño se desvelará el parentesco. Una trama perfectamente urdida en torno a las sorpresas que puede deparar el destino, al podeer político, al juego sucio, a la pérdida y al reencuetro, que ha hecho las delicias de miles de lectores en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos.

These twelve stories feature people under pressure: how do they react when there is an opportunity to seize, a crucial problem to solve, a danger to avoid? Each tale has its twist, each its diversion — a red herring to uncover, while the last one provides a choice of endings.

Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years' imprisonment at 12.07pm on Thursday 19th July 2001. Within six hours, Prisoner FF8282, as he is now known, was on suicide watch in the medical wing of Belmarsh top security prison in south London. This, he discovered, is standard procedure for first-time offenders on their first night in jail. By 6.00am the next morning, Archer had resolved to write a daily diary of everything he experienced while incarcerated, because "I have a feeling that being allowed to write in this hellhole may turn out to be the one salvation that will keep me sane". Jeffrey Archer's diary of his first three weeks imprisonment is a raw account of life in a top-security jail in Britain. It is also an indictment of the British penal system. The tales of his fellow inmates – many of whom are in for life – are often moving stories of hopelessness. But there are those, too, who, no matter what their previous histories, attempt to live their prison lives with dignity and integrity. Returning favours, Archer comments, is far more commonplace in prison than outside. The diary should be of interest to anyone concerned with the improvement of our penal system, whether they are concerned citizens, politicians or workers in the prison service.

¿Dónde está la frontera entre la culpabilidad y la inocencia? Solo un escritor como Jeffrey Archer es capaz de imprimir en las conciencias un sentimiento tan complejo como la duda.

¿Puede un convicto confesar su culpabilidad y conseguir que se desee su libertad, que se crea en su inocencia? Este es el dilema que presenta uno de los doce relatos, manifestación de talento y elegancia narrativa, que, inspirados en historias inolvidables de personajes reales, abordan la cuestión de la delincuencia: entre el engaño y la estafa, entre el asesinato y el robo, estos maravillosos relatos guían al lector por los laberintos de un mundo paralelo y subterráneo. Pero al tiempo muestran el lado más humano de sus protagonistas, culpables, pero no tanto.

Aunque algunas de estas historias fueron conocidas por el autor tras su puesta en libertad, la mayoría lo fueron durante su estancia en prisión, lo que les da una unidad de fondo. Todas confirman a Archer como uno de los mejores creadores de relatos cortos de la actualidad.

Las ilustraciones del inigualable Ronald Searle representan un valor añadido de una edición inolvidable.

«Con estilo, ingenioso y siempre entretenido… Jeffrey Archer tiene una aptitud natural para las historias cortas.» – The Times

«Probablemente el mejor contador de historias de nuestro tiempo.» – Mail-on Sunday

«Un narrador de la talla de Alejandro Dumas.» – Washington Post

«Archer es un maestro del entretenimiento.» – Time

«Este hombre es un genio.» – Evening Standard

«Archer es un narrador excelente, que cumple las expectativas del lector: el deseo de pasar la página y saber qué ocurre después.» – Sunday Times

«Archer tiene un don para la trama que solo se puede definir como genial.» – Daily Telegraph

Las historias de Lubji, húngaro judío perseguido durante la segunda guerra mundial, y la de Kent, joven adinerado que descubre sus facultades de líder, sirven de escenario para que el gran Jeffrey Archer, dibuje con magistralidad y estilo propio, los pormenores de la vida del mundo de la prensa en EL CUARTO PODER, popular novela que fue llevada a la pantalla, y que muestra descarnadamente los laberintos de la información desde un punto de vista desprovisto de concesiones. Lubji emerge de un pasado lleno de frio y soledad, donde debe escapar de su mundo para lograr salvar la vida mientras sus habilidades de comerciante le permiten sobrevivir en el gélido ambiente de una Europa desgarrada por la lucha fratricida con la amenaza de Adolf Hitler rondando la buena marcha de la paz y la concordia.

Kent, por su parte, entre apuestas en el hipódromo, y su propio despertar sexual mientras participó en intrigas y maldades, va envolviéndose en un mundo donde el conocimiento es la llave del éxito. Escrita con un estilo fuerte e incluyente, El Cuarto Poder es un retrato perfecto del rostro de los grandes magnates que encajan muy bien en la máxima de Balzac, "Detrás de cada gran fortuna, hay un gran crimen". Esta novela es un fiel reflejo de dos historias unidas por la sagacidad y el destino, y que los lleva al inevitable choque.

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.

This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him. Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrong are among such individuals. But what if one man had such a dream, and when he'd achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition? "Paths of Glory", is the story of such a man. But not until you've turned the last page of this extraordinary novel, will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to this list of legends, because if he were, another name would have to be removed.

"Day 167 – New Year's Day – Tuesday 1st January 2002 – 6.00 pm

I miss my wife, I miss my family and I miss my friends. But the only enemy I have to contend with is boredom and it's a killer. For many prisoners, it is the time when they first experiment with drugs. To begin with, offered by the dealers for nothing, and when they want more, in exchange for a phone card and an ounce of tobacco. Finally, when they're hooked, they'll give anything for a fix – including their life."

Jeffrey Archer's final volume of prison diaries covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events that led to his incarceration there – it also throws light on a system that is close to breaking point.

Told with humour, compassion and honesty, the diary closes with a thought-provoking manifesto that should be applauded by the Establishment and prison population alike.

Quince muestras del talento multiforme y sutil de Jeffrey Archer, quince relatos, irónicos unos, románticos otros, pero siempre llenos de ingenio y elegancia. Desde el cuento árabe, de estremecedora brevedad, “La muerte habla”, hasta la divertida jerarquía de personajes insatisfechos de “La hierba siempre es más verde”, pasando por historias de amor y entrega o por explorar las zonas oscuras de la legalidad y cómo de puede abusar de ellas, En pocas palabras lleva al lector a un universo siempre amable, pero en el que no dejan de aflorar los conflictos humanos que, a pesar de todo, constituyen la sal de la tierra.

No le fue fácil a Charlie alcanzar el objetivo de amasar una fortuna; sin embargo algo había en él que le hacía un predestinado al triunfo y, como apreciará el lector, este algo tiene mucho que ver con su capacidad de trabajo, astucia, coraje, ganas de aprender y un maravilloso abuelo -el de más fino olfato para la venta- que le guió con su ejemplo en sus primeros tiempos.

Desde las primeras páginas la historia se convierte en una trepidante aventura sobre el mundo de los negocios, en una ascensión ilusionada desde la humilde situación de vendedor de verduras callejero hasta la realización de un gran proyecto empresarial: es la historia de un tendero que metido a negociante termina creando una importante red de establecimientos comerciales mientras van desfilando los grandes acontecimientos de este siglo.

Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his fianceé up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation.

A few hours later Danny is arrested for murder and later is sentenced to twenty-two years in prison, thanks to irrefutable testimony from Spencer, the prosecution's main witness.

Danny spends the next few years in a high-security prison while Spencer Craig's career as a lawyer goes straight up. All the while Danny plans to escape and wreak his revenge.

Thus begins Jeffrey Archer's poignant novel of deception, hatred and vengeance, in which only one of them can finally triumph while the other will spend the rest of his days in jail. But which one will triumph? This suspenseful novel takes the listener through so many twists and turns that no one will guess the ending, even the most ardent of Archer's many, many fans.