Book Preview Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Shall We Tell The President? The Prodigal Daughter The Eleventh Commandment A Quiver Full of Arrows The Collected Short Stories To Cut a Long Story Short Beyond Reasonable Doubt Volume One – Belmarsh: Hell Volume Two – Wayland: Purgatory Volume Three – North Sea Camp: … Read more
Book Preview Susan plonked the ice cream firmly on Michael Cartwright’s head. It was the first occasion the two of them had met, or that was what Michael’s best man claimed when Susan and Michael were married twenty-one years later. Both of them were three years old at the time, and when Michael burst into … Read more
Book Preview When I first wrote Shall We Tell the President? I set the story six or seven years in the future. Now that that future date lies in the past, some of the story’s credibility becomes impaired. Since that time too I have written The Prodigal Daughter in which the chief character, Florentyna Kane, … Read more
Book Preview The signpost announces North Sea Camp, one mile. As we approach the entrance to the prison, the first thing that strikes me is that there are no electric gates, no high walls and no razor wire. I am released from my sweat box and walk into reception, where I am greeted by an … Read more
Book Preview Purgatory – A Prison Diary Vol 2 THE THOUSANDTH MAN One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother. And it’s worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. Nine hundred and ninety-nine depend On what the world sees in you, But … Read more
Book Preview Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced or cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY JEFFREY ARCHER NOVELS Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Shall We Tell the President? Kane & Abel The Prodigal Daughter First Among Equals A Matter of Honor As the Crow Flies Honor Among Thieves The Fourth Estate The Eleventh Commandment Sons of Fortune False Impression The Gospel According to … Read more
Book Preview THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES VOLUME ONE HARRY CLIFTON: 1920-1933 MAISIE CLIFTON: 1920-1936 HUGO BARRINGTON: 1921-1936 OLD JACK TAR: 1925-1936 GILES BARRINGTON: 1936-1938 EMMA BARRINGTON: 1932-1939 HARRY CLIFTON: 1939-1940 This story would never have been written if I hadn’t become pregnant. Mind you, I had always planned to lose my virginity on the works outing … Read more
Book Preview “Jörg, expect seven million dollars from Credit Parisien in the Number Two account by six o’clock tonight, Central European time, and place it overnight with first-class banks and triple ‘A’ commercial names. Otherwise, invest it in the overnight Euro dollar market. Understood?” “Place one million dollars in the Banco do Minas Gerais, Rio … Read more
Book Preview My thanks for their invaluable advice and research to: Simon Bainbridge, Alan Gard, Professor Ken Howard RA, Alison Prince, Catherine Richards, Mari Roberts, Dr. Nick Robins, and Susan Watt And to Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar and Young Stalin, for his advice and scholarship Read the … Read more
Book Preview She only stopped screaming when she died. It was then that he started to scream. The young boy who was hunting rabbits in the forest was not sure whether it had been the woman’s last cry or the child’s first that alerted him. He turned suddenly, sensing the possible danger, his eyes searching … Read more
Book Preview Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Shall We Tell The President? The Prodigal Daughter The Eleventh Commandment A Quiver Full of Arrows The Collected Short Stories To Cut a Long Story Short Beyond Reasonable Doubt Volume One – Belmarsh: Hell Volume Two – Wayland: Purgatory Volume Three – North Sea Camp: … Read more
Book Preview Saturday, April 27, 1991 KING CHARLES III made the final decision. The election had duly taken place as decreed by royal proclamation. The polling booths had been closed, the votes counted, the computers turned off-, and the experts and amateurs alike had collapsed into their beds in disbelief when they had heard the … Read more
Book Preview Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Shall We Tell the President? The Prodigal Daughter The Eleventh Commandment A Quiver Full of Arrows The Collected Short Stories To Cut a Long Story Short Beyond Reasonable Doubt Volume One – Belmarsh: Hell Volume Two – Wayland: Purgatory Volume Three – North Sea Camp: … Read more
Book Preview AS HE OPENED THE DOOR the alarm went off. The sort of mistake you would expect an amateur to make, which was surprising, as Connor Fitzgerald was considered by his peers to be the professional’s professional. Fitzgerald had anticipated that it would be several minutes before the local policia responded to a burglary … Read more
Book Preview Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Shall We Tell the President? The Prodigal Daughter The Eleventh Commandment A Quiver Full of Arrows To Cut a Long Story Short The Collected Short Stories Beyond Reasonable Doubt Volume One – Hell, Volume Two – Purgatory and Volume Three – Heaven Mallory: Walking off … Read more
Book Preview “I don’t offer you these for tuppence,” my granpa would shout, holding up a cabbage in both hands, “I don’t offer ‘em for a penny, not even a ha’penny. No, I’ll give ‘em away for a farthin’.” Those were the first words I can remember. Even before I had learned to walk, my … Read more
Book Preview Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Shall We Tell the President? The Prodigal Daughter The Eleventh Commandment The Gospel According to Judas (with the assistance of Professor Francis J. Moloney) A Quiver Full of Arrows The Collected Short Stories To Cut a Long Story Short Beyond Reasonable Doubt Volume One – … Read more