Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his fiance? up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation.A few hours later Danny is arrested for murder and later is sentenced to twenty-two years in prison, thanks to irrefutable testimony from Spencer, the prosecution's main witness.Danny spends the next few years in a high-security prison while Spencer Craig's career ...
?D?nde est? la frontera entre la culpabilidad y la inocencia? Solo un escritor como Jeffrey Archer es capaz de imprimir en las conciencias un sentimiento tan complejo como la duda.?Puede un convicto confesar su culpabilidad y conseguir que se desee su libertad, que se crea en su inocencia? Este es el dilema que presenta uno de los doce relatos, manifestaci?n de talento y elegancia narrativa, que, inspirados en historias inolvidables de personajes reales, abordan la cuesti?n de la delincuencia: entre el enga?o y la estafa, entre el asesinato y el robo, estos maravillosos ...
No le fue f?cil a Charlie alcanzar el objetivo de amasar una fortuna; sin embargo algo hab?a en ?l que le hac?a un predestinado al triunfo y, como apreciar? el lector, este algo tiene mucho que ver con su capacidad de trabajo, astucia, coraje, ganas de aprender y un maravilloso abuelo -el de m?s fino olfato para la venta- que le gui? con su ejemplo en sus primeros tiempos.Desde las primeras p?ginas la historia se convierte en una trepidante aventura sobre el mundo de los negocios, en una ascensi?n ilusionada desde la humilde situaci?n de vendedor de verduras callejero hasta la realizaci?n de un gran proyecto empresarial: es la historia de un tendero que metido a negociante termina creando una importante red de establecimientos comerciales mientras van desfilando los grandes acontecimientos de este siglo.
Las historias de Lubji, h?ngaro jud?o perseguido durante la segunda guerra mundial, y la de Kent, joven adinerado que descubre sus facultades de l?der, sirven de escenario para que el gran Jeffrey Archer, dibuje con magistralidad y estilo propio, los pormenores de la vida del mundo de la prensa en EL CUARTO PODER, popular novela que fue llevada a la pantalla, y que muestra descarnadamente los laberintos de la informaci?n desde un punto de vista desprovisto de concesiones. Lubji emerge de un pasado lleno de frio y soledad, donde debe escapar de su mundo para ...
Quince muestras del talento multiforme y sutil de Jeffrey Archer, quince relatos, ir?nicos unos, rom?nticos otros, pero siempre llenos de ingenio y elegancia. Desde el cuento ?rabe, de estremecedora brevedad, “La muerte habla”, hasta la divertida jerarqu?a de personajes insatisfechos de “La hierba siempre es m?s verde”, pasando por historias de amor y entrega o por explorar las zonas oscuras de la legalidad y c?mo de puede abusar de ellas, En pocas palabras lleva al lector a un universo siempre amable, pero en el que no dejan de aflorar los conflictos humanos que, a pesar de todo, constituyen la sal de la tierra.
"Day 167 – New Year's Day – Tuesday 1st January 2002 – 6.00 pmI miss my wife, I miss my family and I miss my friends. But the only enemy I have to contend with is boredom and it's a killer. For many prisoners, it is the time when they first experiment with drugs. To begin with, offered by the dealers for nothing, and when they want more, in exchange for a phone card and an ounce of tobacco. Finally, when they're hooked, they'll give anything for a fix – including their life."Jeffrey Archer's final volume of prison diaries covers the period ...
Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years' imprisonment at 12.07pm on Thursday 19th July 2001. Within six hours, Prisoner FF8282, as he is now known, was on suicide watch in the medical wing of Belmarsh top security prison in south London. This, he discovered, is standard procedure for first-time offenders on their first night in jail. By 6.00am the next morning, Archer had resolved to write a daily diary of everything he experienced while incarcerated, because "I have a feeling that being allowed to write in this hellhole may turn out to be the one salvation that will keep me ...
Jeffrey Archer, con su habitual maestr?a narrativa, presenta en su ?ltima novela una apasionante historia marcada por un ins?lito cruce de destinos: dos hermanos gemelos separados al nacer y que desconoc?an la existencia del otro, se reencuentran treinta a?os m?s tarda como rivales pol?ticos. Ambos pertenecen a familias de distinta extracci?n social y credo ideol?gico, pero el azar propiciar? que sea Fletcher quien defienda a su hermano Nat, acusaso del asesinato de su rival en las elecciones a gobernador. Cuando Fletcher sufra un accidente y sea necesario conseguir sangre de un grupo muy extra?o se desvelar? el parentesco. Una trama perfectamente urdida en torno a las sorpresas que puede deparar el destino, al podeer pol?tico, al juego sucio, a la p?rdida y al reencuetro, que ha hecho las delicias de miles de lectores en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos.
?Por qu? una anciana es asesinada en su mansi?n de Inglaterra la madrugada del 11 de septiembre de 2001??Por qu? un exitoso banquero de Nueva York no se sorprende al recibir por correo la oreja de una vieja dama??Por qu? un prestigioso abogado trabaja para un ?nico cliente sin cobrar honorarios??Por qu? una joven ejecutiva roba un Van Gogh si no es una ladrona??Por qu? una brillante licenciada trabaja como secretaria despu?s de heredar una fortuna??Por qu? una atleta cobra un mill?n de d?lares por cumplir una ...
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? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who worked in Bristol docks, or the first born son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? "...
This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him. Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrong are among such individuals. But what if one man had such a dream, and when he'd achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition? "Paths of Glory", is the story of such a man. But not until you've turned the last page of this extraordinary novel, will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to this list of legends, because if he were, another name would have to be removed.
The No 1. Bestseller and storyteller continues his forceful account of life inside the British penal system. On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. In this second installment of his diaries, Jeffrey Archer recounts the time he spent in Wayland Prison.
International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with his most ambitious work of epic storytelling – a multi-generational saga of fate, fortune, and redemption that began with ONLY TIME WILL TELL.On the heels of the international bestseller ONLY TIME WILL TELL, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles.Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets recently revealed, and forced to admit that his wish to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk ...
These twelve stories feature people under pressure: how do they react when there is an opportunity to seize, a crucial problem to solve, a danger to avoid? Each tale has its twist, each its diversion — a red herring to uncover, while the last one provides a choice of endings.
