ARCHER JEFFREY

(P/B) 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... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT?
6 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes to go... 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 such threat of the year. At 8.30 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. Shall We Tell the President is an ent...
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ΚΑΙΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΒΕΛ
Δυο άντρες γεννημένοι την ίδια μέρα, σε δύο διαφορετικές γωνιές του πλανήτη, που οι δρόμοι τους έμελλε να διασταυρωθούν σ' έναν αδυσώπητο αγώνα με έπαθλο τη δύναμη και τον πλούτο: Γουίλιαμ Λόουελ Κάιν και Άβελ Ροσνόφσκι... ο ένας γιος ενός Βοστονέζου πολυεκατομμυριούχου, ο άλλος ένας πάμπτωχος Πολωνός μετανάστης. Η ιστορία τους θα ξεδιπλωθεί στη διάρκεια μισού αιώνα, όπου αυτοί οι δυο άντρες -φιλόδοξοι, ισχυροί και αδίστακτοι- σπρωγμένοι από τη μοίρα, θα βρεθούν στον ίδιο τόπο, στον ίδιο στίβο, για να βοηθήσουν... να σώσουν... να μισήσουν...
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(P/B) COMETH THE HOUR
Thrilling and absorbing, Cometh the Hour is the sixth novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's the Clifton Chronicles sees the Clifton and Barrington families navigate the 1970s in this epic tale of tragedy and hope. There are devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, her brother Giles Barrington and their arch enemy Lady Virginia when a suicide note is read out in court. Having fallen in love, Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics to try and rescue the woman he loves from behind the Iron Curtain. Lady ...
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(P/B) FOUR WARNED
Four Warned contains four short stories from master storyteller, Jeffrey Archer, are packed full of twists and turns. In Stuck on You, Jeremy finds out exactly the best way to steal the perfect ring for his fianc?e. Albert celebrates his 100th birthday, and is pleased to be sent The Queen's Birthday Telegram. He is, however, confused... In Russia, businessman Richard plots the ideal way to murder his wife. He begins to have a clever idea when his hotel warns him: Don't Drink the Water from the taps. And as Diana, a busy single mother, driv...
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(P/B) AS THE CROW FLIES
If your dream is big enough, not even your enemies can stop you... Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps -- his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell everything: 'The Biggest Barrow in the World'. Charlie's progress from the teeming streets of Whitechapel to the elegance of Chelsea Terrace is only a few miles as the crow flies. But in Jeffrey Archer's expert h...
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(P/B) NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS
Don't get mean, get even... A special edition of Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary. 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. They band together and ...
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(P/B) A MATTER OF HONOUR
The opening of a letter leads to a desperate chase across Europe in A Matter of Honour by Jeffrey Archer, one of the world's bestselling novelists. Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the contents can only be meagre. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave - except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter that can only bring further disgrace to the family name. Against his mother's advice, Adam opens the letter, and immediately realizes his life can never be the same again. The contents leave him w...
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(P/B) THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
Hers was the ultimate ambition... The Prodigal Daughter is the magnificent story of love and politics that continues the saga Jeffrey Archer began with 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 hig...
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(P/B) THIS WAS A MAN
This Was a Man is the seventh and final, captivating instalment of the Clifton Chronicles from master storyteller Jeffrey Archer. This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call fro...
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(P/B) COMETH THE HOUR
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 hors...
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(P/B) MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD
The fifth gripping novel in the epic Clifton Chronicles series. Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV 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 int...
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(P/B) THE ACCUSED
Jeffrey Archer's latest play, The Accused, is a tense courtroom drama with a difference. The audience will act as the jury, as if they were in the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey. You will have to decide... Did Dr Sherwood murder his wife? Was Jennifer Mitchell his mistress? Which of his alibis should you believe? The choice will keep you on the edge of your seats, and at the end of the trial you will be invited to deliver your verdict of guilty or not guilty. Once you have made that decision the play will continue - with one of t...
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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER
This ingenious tale examines the ambitions and petty jealousies of the staff at Critchley's Bank. From the doorman to the personnel manager, to Sir William, the bank's sorrowful chairman. Archer knits a panoply of characters with deft narrative skill in a story which is as revealing as it is observant. Taken from his anthology To Cut a Long Story Short, his other short story anthologies include A Quiver Full of Arrows, Twelve Red Herrings and A Twist in the Tale. (From the publisher)...
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ΤΟ ΑΙΝΙΓΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΒΑΝ ΓΚΟΓΚ
Γιατί μια γηραιά αριστοκράτισσα δολοφονείται την παραμονή της 11ης Σεπτεμβρίου; Ποιος στέλνει σ’ έναν τραπεζίτη της Νέας Υόρκης ένα κομμένο γυναικείο αυτί; Γιατί ένας μεγαλοδικηγόρος δουλεύει μόνο για έναν πελάτη χωρίς ποτέ να τον χρεώνει για τις υπηρεσίες του; Τι οδηγεί ένα εργαζόμενο κορίτσι που δεν είναι κλέφτρα να εξαφανιστεί με ένα ανεκτίμητο έργο τέχνης; Και πώς ένας Ιάπωνας μεγιστάνας εμπιστεύεται 50.000.000 δολάρια σε μια άγνωστη; (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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