Jeffrey Archer, St. Martin's, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-53953-5
Bestseller Archer assembles 15 more of the clever stories for which he is known. They are split between tales of trickery, as with "Stuck on You," where an eager young man is played by a diamond thief, and decidedly sentimental stories, such as "Memb
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Jeffrey Archer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (599p) ISBN 978-0-06-019224-2
Surprise endings are the stock-in-trade of former Tory MP, current candidate for mayor of London and prolific novelist Archer (The Fourth Estate). These 36 stories, culled from his three previous collections (12 Red Herrings, A Twist in the Tale and
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Jeffrey Archer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-018552-7
Archer (Twelve Red Herrings; The Fourth Estate) maintains his obsession with surprise endings, producing a collection of 14 cleverly twisting tales, nine of which are ""based on true incidents."" If most of the stories fail to produce a lasting...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67148-8
Archer's ( Kane and Abel ) talent as a raconteur is evident in these 12 distinctive short stories, all of which have surprise endings. Many center on human failings such as jealousy, obstinacy, pettiness or prejudice; 10 are based on ``known...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author HarperTorch $7.99 (800p) ISBN 978-0-06-109934-2
This rags-to-riches saga of a London East Ender who learns economics at a humble vegetable stand and later founds a huge department store spent 19 weeks on PW 's bestseller list. (May)
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Jeffrey Archer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (324p) ISBN 978-0-06-017944-1
Archer does a passable O. Henry in his third story collection (after A Twist in the Tale ), though without that master's depth of feeling or irony. Many of the 12 stories here, all of which feature false clues and twist endings, are based on ``known'
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Jeffrey Archer. St Martin's, (400p) $27.99 ISBN 978-0-312-53955-9
With his latest, Archer (Honor Among Thieves) delivers another page-turning, heart-stopping saga, with delightful twists, and a surprise ending. This first title from the Clifton Chronicles introduces readers to Harry Clifton, a boy growing up in...
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Jeffrey Archer. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-00097-2
In his sequel to Only Time Will Tell, Archer continues the Clifton Chronicles with another heavily plot-driven story that has little to hold on to in terms of character development or writing style. The novel begins hastily with Englishman Harry...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (503p) ISBN 978-0-312-31319-7
Veteran novelist and British politician Archer (Kane and Abel) is currently serving a prison sentence for perjury, so readers can perhaps forgive him if this latest effort falls short of his usual standard. The implausibly plotted novel follows...
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Jeffrey Archer. St. Martin's, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-00098-9
An artful blend of colorful characters, seething resentment, calculated revenge, and a shocking, tragic cliffhanger distinguishes Archer's third volume of The Clifton Chronicles. Picking up where The Sins of the Father left off, readers discover...
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Jeffrey Archer. St. Martin's, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-06162-1
This sixth, and penultimate, addition to the Clifton Chronicles series (after Mightier Than the Sword) continues with the Cliftons and the Barringtons in the 1970s—their family fortunes and travails, love affairs, political dramas, business mishaps...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author . St. Martin's $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-32186-4
Convicted of perjury in 2001, Archer, a bestselling novelist (Sons of Fortune) and member of the British House of Lords, penned this memoir about his first three weeks in prison, focusing on his daily life, the prisoners' lives and the state of...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-33098-9
As recounted in this second installment of his prison diary, Archer's 67 days at Wayland, a medium-security facility in Norfolk, sounds much more pleasant than the time he spent at a maximum-security facility in London, where his status as a...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (473p) ISBN 978-0-312-34217-3
In 2001, bestselling novelist Archer (Sons of Fortune
; etc.) was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for perjury. Volume one of his diaries detailed his first 22 days at a facility for violent offenders; volume two described his move to a...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-35372-8
Even though Archer (Sons of Fortune
) grounds his international art-thievery thriller in the events of 9/11, this leisurely paced, tepid effort has a musty feel. It's September 10, 2001, and Lady Victoria Wentworth is sitting in spacious...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (501p) ISBN 978-0-312-37929-2
Bestseller Archer (Kane and Abel
) pays homage to Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo
in this delicious updating of the adventure classic. Four upper-crust friends from Cambridge University known as the Musketeers conspire to frame Danny...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author . St. Martin’s $27.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-312-53951-1
A real-life mountaineering mystery serves as the springboard for bestseller Archer’s abysmal latest. The plot begins promisingly with the body of mountaineer George Mallory discovered on the slopes of Mt. Everest in 1999, possibly having been...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22.95 (617p) ISBN 978-0-06-017914-4
Practiced raconteur Archer ( Kane & Abel ) engagingly presents the rags-to-riches story of Charlie Trumper, a man who learns to buy and sell by working at his grandfather's vegetable cart in the early 1900s. He and his devoted wife Rebecca quickly...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (381p) ISBN 978-0-06-017945-8
Newly minted CIA and Mossad agents work to undo damage wrought by a Mafia/Iraqi conspiracy in English author Archer's ( As the Crow Flies ; Kane and Abel ) witty, action-filled--if improbable--thriller. Some readers, we suppose, might find quite...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (359p) ISBN 978-0-06-019150-4
From the first line, former British M.P. Archer (The Fourth Estate, etc.) navigates a nonstop, rocketing ride. Middle-aged Connor Fitzgerald is a happily married man, decorated veteran and devoted father; he's also an ""NOC,"" a ""non-official cover
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Jeffrey Archer, Author, Simon Bainbridge, Editor W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-393-03033-4
Of these 10 stories collected by novelist Archer ( Kane and Abel ) and English bookseller/editor Bainbridge, some are political only in the most tenuous sense. Mark Twain, in ``The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,'' strips away the pretensions of self-
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Jeffrey Archer, read by Alex Jennings and Emilia Fox. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1494-2
This latest installment in Archer's Clifton Chronicles series follows the multiple trials, tribulations, and sometime triumphs of working class Englishman Harry Clifton, his lady love Emma Barrington, and their numerous respective family members as...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author, Francis J. Moloney, Author, Desmond Tutu, Read by , read by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Audio Renaissance $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0173-7
Not to be confused with the historic Gospel of Judas
(2006, National Geographic), this is a novella by “Benjamin Iscariot”—a fictionalized son of Judas who is eager to rehabilitate his father’s reputation. This collaboration
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Jeffrey Archer, Author, Roger Allam, Read by , read by Roger Allam. Macmillan $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0603-9
Veteran actor Roger Allam brings an impressive range and energy to Archer's historical novel. The tale finds its inspiration in the real-life mystery surrounding adventurer George Mallory, who may—or may not—have reached the summit...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author, Roger Allam, Read by , read by Roger Allam. Macmillan Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0283-3
Though Archer's new novel is a porridge that mushes The Count of Monte Cristo
together with The Prince and the Pauper
, Roger Allam gives an award-worthy performance in this crisply paced production. Most challenging is that the main character
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Jeffrey Archer, read by Roger Allam and Emilia Fox. MacMillan Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1146-0%E2%80%A8
In this first installment in Archer's new Clifton Chronicles series, Harry Clifton, a dockworker's son from Bristol, England, must grapple with the truth about his fa- ther's history and forge his own identity at the outbreak of WWII. The novel...
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Jeffrey Archer, Author, Ronald Searle, Illustrator . St. Martin's $27.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-312-36264-5
Bestseller Archer (Kane & Abel
) put his time in prison to fine literary use, as evidenced by the 12 stellar entries in his fifth story collection, nine of which are based on tales he heard from fellow inmates while incarcerated. Three others he
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This collection of sometimes intriguing, sometimes obvious stories is best suited to a series of short car trips rather than one long one: the listener tends to catch on fast to the O'Henry-esque endings, so the stories are less entertaining...
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Jeffrey Archer. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-250-17250-1
In Archer’s clever novel, a Sliding Doors-ish bildungsroman, fate hinges on the toss of a coin. After his father is assassinated by the KGB in 1968, young Alexander Karpenko says goodbye to his friend Vladimir and flees Russia with his mother. At...
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Jeffrey Archer. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-20076-1
An opening note to bestseller Archer’s enjoyable series launch informs the reader: “This is not a detective story, this is a story about a detective,” the detective being William Warwick from the author’s Clifton Chronicles (This Was a Man, etc.)....
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Jeffrey Archer. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-20078-5
Set in 1986, bestseller Archer’s disappointing sequel to 2019’s Nothing Ventured finds London police officer William Warwick promoted to detective sergeant and transferred to a new specialized unit, “whose sole purpose will be to track down one...
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Jeffrey Archer. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-20080-8
Three cases preoccupy Det. Insp. William Warwick in bestseller Archer’s unconvincing third outing for the London policeman (after 2020’s Hidden in Plain Sight). In 1987, Warwick is slated to be the chief Crown witness in the prosecution of drug...
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Jeffrey Archer. HarperCollins, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-00-847637-3
Set circa 1988, bestseller Archer’s overstuffed fourth police procedural featuring Det. Chief Insp. William Warwick (after Turn a Blind Eye) finds William and his wife on a cruise ship heading for New York. When Fraser Buchanan, the chairman of the...
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Jeffrey Archer. HarperCollins, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-00-860738-8
A plot to steal Britain’s crown jewels animates bestseller Archer’s flaccid sixth crime caper featuring Royal Protection Supt. William Warwick (after 2022’s Next in Line). It’s 1996, and Warwick’s longtime nemesis, master thief Miles Faulkner, has...
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