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The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer’s great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty’s diplomatic service - but for a good cause.

Hartford, Connecticut, finales de los años 40. Dos gemelos son separados al nacer por culpa de una enfermera desesperada. Nat Cartwright se va a casa con sus padres, una maestra de escuela y un vendedor de seguros. Sin embargo, su hermano gemelo comienza sus días como Fletcher Andrew Davenport, hijo del adinerado director de una empresa y su esposa. Durante los años siguientes, los dos hermanos crecen sin saber de la existencia del otro. Nat interrumpirá sus estudios en la Universidad de Connecticut para ir a luchar a Vietnam.

First Among Equals is an exciting political drama, by master storyteller Jeffrey Archer. Read by the inimitable John Lee In the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions and upheavals of the race for power with their wives...

Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fourteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and the...

Read by Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Missing You) Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer. Leningrad, Russia, 1968. From an early age it is clear that Alexander Karpenko is...

London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the ‘people’s princess’. 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.  

Suspenseful and mesmerizing, This Was a Man is the seventh and final novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s the Clifton Chronicles – an epic and poignant conclusion. Harry Clifton is set to write his magnum opus, and as he reflects on his days, the lives of his family continue to...

Captivating and suspenseful, Best Kept Secret is the third novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s outstanding Clifton Chronicles. It sees our hero Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington, brother of Harry’s beloved wife Emma, become entwined in the fate of the Barrington family...

Thrilling and absorbing, Cometh the Hour is the sixth novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s the Clifton Chronicles and sees the Clifton and Barrington families navigate the 1970s in an epic tale of tragedy and hope. There are devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton...

William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless polish immigrant-born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world-are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred.

As the Crow Flies is an epic rags to riches tale from Jeffrey Archer, author of the bestselling The Clifton Chronicles. 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...

Fast-paced and intriguing, Mightier than the Sword is the fifth novel in Jeffrey Archer’s bestselling Clifton Chronicles. Moving towards the end of the 1960s, the Cliftons and the Barringtons come up against sworn enemies and new foes . . . Following the explosion of an IRA bomb on board the...

London, 2012. Die Augen der Welt sind auf Großbritannien gerichtet. Das Land bereitet sich auf die Ausrichtung der Olympischen Spiele vor. Doch das Rampenlicht macht London zur Zielscheibe: Eine internationale Verschwörung plant einen verheerenden Anschlag, der den Globus ins Chaos stürzen soll. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick steht vor der größten Herausforderung seiner Karriere. Er und sein Team verfolgen die schattenhafte Organisation und es beginnt ein tödliches Katz- und Maus-Spiel, das sie von den belebten Straßen Londons bis in die verborgensten Korridore der Macht führt.

Ein 100-Millionen-Dollar-Coup mit nur einem Ziel – Amerika zu demütigen. Hinter der polierten Fassade des Nationalarchivs, geschützt von meterdicken Wänden, lagert die größte Trophäe der Welt: die Unabhängigkeitserklärung der Vereinigten Staaten. Auf dieses Heiligtum hat es ein Mann abgesehen, der sich selbst zum Erzfeind der freien Welt erklärt hat – und ein finsteres Komplott ins Rollen bringt. Als die Geheimdienste Alarm schlagen, muss CIA-Agent Scott Bradley alles zurücklassen. Gemeinsam mit der israelischen Agentin Hannah Kopec schmiedet er einen riskanten Plan.

Un roman epic despre putere, glorie, ambiţie şi răzbunare. "W.L.Kane şi Abel Rosnovski – doi oameni fundamental deosebiţi, ale căror destine sunt umbrite de obsesia de a se distruge unul pe celălalt. Unul , milionar din Boston, celălalt un emigrant polonez sărac, născuţi î...

FIICA RISIPITOARE – al doilea roman al TRILOGIEI AMERICANE a lui Jeffrey Archer este o poveste emoționantă și dramatică a cărei acțiune se desfășoară în lumea protipendadei americane, formată din oameni de afaceri puternici și neîndurători. Eroina principală este...

THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER Armistice Day 1918. Two children are born on the same day, hours – but worlds – apart. One the son of a shepherd, the other the daughter of an Earl. Adam and Eve. Their births mark the end of one war. Their love will change the outcome of another...

Ein geheimnisvolles Erbe. Ein Brief, der nie geöffnet werden sollte. Eine atemlose Jagd quer durch Europa. Adam Scott hat nie den wahren Grund erfahren, warum sein Vater unehrenhaft aus der British Army entlassen wurde – bis zu dessen Tod. Teil des übersichtlichen Erbes ist ein vergilbter Brief. Als Adam ihn öffnet, setzt er damit eine Kette tödlicher Ereignisse in Gang, die die Grundfesten der freien Welt erschüttern könnten. Adams Wissen darf auf keinen Fall in die falschen Hände gelangen. Ehe er sich’s versieht sind KGB, CIA und selbst seine eigenen Landsleute hinter ihm her.

प्रॉडिगल डॉटर एबल रोसनोवस्की की बेटी फ्लोरेंटीना की कहानी है, जो देखने में जितनी खूबसूरत थी उससे कहीं अधिक होशियार और सक्षम। उसे अपने पिता से विरासत में दृढ़-संकल्प और अदम्य साहस तो मिला लेकिन संपत्ति नहीं। फ्लोरेंटीना की एकमात्र महत्त्वाकांक्षा थी - अमेरिका का राष्ट्रपति बनना। एक महिला का राष्ट्रपति बनना - सुनने और सोचने में एकदम असम्भव! लेकिन उसके शब्दकोश में असम्भव शब्द तो था ही नहीं।

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।