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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?

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 22 days and 14 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.

Jeffery Archer is a New York Times best-selling author, published in over 37 languages across 97 countries. Jeffrey Archer's debut novel Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less from 1976 is dramatised here in seven parts by Betty Davis; as well as his later work A Matter of Honour, which was recently rediscovered in the collection of an amateur archivist after the recording was lost on delivery to the BBC archives. The sound quality of A Matter of Honour may be affected as a result.

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.

An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is alive; a female driver is pursued by a menacing figure in another vehicle; a young artist gets a big break; a restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration; an escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein's death list pays a visit to his homeland. How will they react? How would you? Cleverly styled, with richly drawn characters and ingeniously plotted story lines, each of the 12 tales ends with a delightfully unexpected turn of events.

The expected never happens... a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged... Has he achieved "The Perfect Murder"? A tantalising opening to "A Twist in the Tale", a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.

It is Greenwich, Connecticut, in the early 1950s, and a set of twins is separated at birth by a desperate nurse. Nat Davenport goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as Fletcher Cartwright, the son of a wealthy CEO and his wife.

This collection of 12 short stories will draw the listener into each story, whether it is "Old Love", the tale of two undergraduates at Oxford in the 30s and their bitter rivalry, which ends in a memorable love story; or "Broken Routine", which tells of an insurance claim advisor and his surprising encounter on the train home to Sevenoaks; or "Henry's Hiccup", the story of the Grand Pasha and how his plans for the most perfect honeymoon go awry.

The time, 1993. The place, Washington, D.C. 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.

The master storyteller continues the Clifton saga with this, the second novel. 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.

Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Their lives will never be the same again. One of them is arrested for murder, while the other ends up as the prosecution's chief witness in an Old Bailey trial.

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. Meanwhile, Anna Petrescu is missing and presumed dead after 9/11. She uses her new status to escape from America and avenge the old lady's death.

Here 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.

Una nuova indagine per William Warwick. QUATTRO CASI. QUATTRO ASSASSINI. E UN SOLO UOMO IN GRADO DI FERMARLI. Londra: la Polizia Metropolitana istituisce una nuova squadra speciale che si occupa di casi irrisolti, la Unsolved Murders Unit, con l’obiettivo di catturare i criminali più inafferrabili. Quattro omicidi. Quattro assassini a piede libero. Ginevra: Miles Faulkner, un ricchissimo collezionista d’arte condannato per furto e contraffazione è stato dichiarato morto da due mesi. Ma allora perché il suo losco avvocato lo rappresenta ancora?

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.

Florentyna Kane is the first woman president of the United States. At 7.30 one evening, the FBI learn of a plot to kill her - the 1,572nd 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 the 'when'. He also knows that a senator is involved. He has six days to learn the 'where' and the 'how' - and six days to prevent the president's certain death.

विलियम अमेरिका के एक करोड़पति घराने में जन्म लेता है और एबल पोलैंड से आये गरीब शरणार्थी के घर में। नाम भिन्न, जन्म की परिस्थितियाँ भिन्न - लेकिन दोनों की महत्त्वाकांक्षा एक ही - पैसा कमाना और दुनियाभर में अपना साम्राज्य खड़ा करना। इस होड़ में दोनों की राहें कई बार आपस में टकराती हैं। इस टकराव और प्रतिद्वंद्विता से पैदा होती है नफ़रत, ईर्ष्या और एक दूसरे को मात देने का जुनून।

William Warwick, appena promosso ispettore, ha ricevuto un nuovo incarico che si prospetta assai più delicato e pericoloso dei precedenti. Perché non solo dovrà occuparsi, come al solito, dei crimini commessi in città, ma dovrà anche portare alla luce la corruzione che dilaga all’interno della stessa Scotland Yard. I suoi stretti collaboratori, agendo sotto copertura, si concentrano subito sul sergente Summers, un giovane ufficiale le cui abitudini di vita sembrano molto al di sopra di ciò che si può permettere con lo stipendio da poliziotto.

This intriguing book, the result of an intense collaboration between one of the world's most popular storytellers and one of the world's leading biblical scholars, casts new light on the events leading up to the great betrayal.

Palpitanta serie de romane a lui Jeffrey Archer, CRONICILE FAMILIEI CLIFTON, continuă cu romanul MAI PUTERNIC DECÂT SABIA, cel mai reuşit de până acum. Toate comploturile şi răsturnările de situaţie l-au consacrat drept unul dintre cei mai cunoscuți și populari autori. Fermecătoarea poveste a familiilor Clifton şi Barrington continuă...