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
Book Preview Of these twelve short stories, gathered in my travels from Tokyo to Trumpington, ten are based on known incidents – some embellished with considerable license. Only two are totally the result of my own imagination. I would like to thank all those people who allowed me to learn some of their innermost secrets. … Read more
Book Preview First came his financial caper Then a political thriller WE TELL THE PRESIDENT? Then the brilliant bestsellers THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER Now Jeffrey Archer has taken up a new challenge with this, his first collection of short stories. The locations move from New York and London to Mexico and Nigeria. Each tale reveals the … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY JEFFREY ARCHER Not a Penny More, Not a Penny LessShall We Tell the President?Kane & AbelThe Prodigal DaughterFirst Among EqualsA Matter of HonorAs the Crow FliesHonor Among ThievesThe Fourth EstateThe Eleventh CommandmentSons of FortuneFalse ImpressionThe Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot (with the assistance of ProfessorFrancis J. Moloney) A Quiver … Read more
Book Preview “A Matter of Honour stands in the long and noble tradition of the British Adventure Story” “Jeffrey Archer is a storyteller… he gave me entertainment, he gave me escape. This is the first Archer I have read – it won’t be the last” “The novel sizzles along at a pace that would peel … Read more