Jeffrey Archer

En una de las ciudades más lujosas del mundo...Un acuerdo multimillonario está a punto de salir mal. Una lujosa velada está a punto de terminar en asesinato. Y el Gobierno británico está a punto de sumirse en una crisis.En el corazon de la clase dirigente britanica...Lord Hartley, el ultimo de una estirpe de nobles que se remonta a mas de doscientos años, yace moribundo. Pero su testamento desencadena una herencia con consecuencias explosivas.Dos muertes. Separadas por continentes. Sin conexion aparente.Entonces, ¿por que ambas se encuentran en el centro de la trama de venganza de un maestro del crimen?¿Podra William Warwick, de Scotland Yard, descubrir la verdad antes de que sea demasiado tarde? La carrera definitiva contra el tiempo esta a punto de comenzar.Archer es un maestro del entretenimiento. The TimesTramas astutas, estilo de seda... Archer juega al gato y al raton con el lector. The New York TimesUno de los diez mejores narradores del mundo. Los Angeles TimesUn narrador de historias de la categoria de Alexandre Dumas. The Washington Post

On 9th August 2001, 22 days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk. He served 67 days in Wayland and during that time, as this account testifies, encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously over-stretched prison service, but the spirit and courage of his fellow inmates.

Harry Clifton, fils d''un docker et d''une serveuse de Bristol, né en 1920, est persuadé que son père, Arthur, est mort en héros à la guerre. Alors que tout le dispose à suivre les traces de ses pare

The third novel in Jeffrey Archer''s compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles 1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellors deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her fathers office on the night he was killed. When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emmas son, who ultimately influences his uncles fate. In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family march onto the page. After Sebastian is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger? Best Kept Secret will answer all these questions, but once again, pose so many more.

A collected edition of the master storyteller''s short stories. This brand new edition brings together three of Jeffrey Archer''s classic collections of short stories. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from an imprisoned man who is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive, to a female driver pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle. An offhand remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor in one tale, while a British diplomat unexpectedly becomes the owner of a priceless work of art in another... And over three of the stories, discover a hauntingly written, atmospheric account of two undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties: a tale of bitter rivalry that ends in a memorable love story. These stories are packed full of the master storyteller''s unexpected twists, richly drawn characters and ingenious, witty denouements some will make you laugh, others will bring you to tears. And, as always, every one of them will keep you spellbound.

Una historia de diferencias sociales, corrupción, odio y venganza, escrita por uno de los maestros del thriller. Danny Cartwritght es un joven de clase obrera que está a punto de casarse. Pero se ve implicado en una reyerta donde muere su cuñado, y los verdaderos culpables, cuatro jovenes de clase alta, lo incriminan y es condenado a veinte años de carcel. Alli conoce a un aristocratico ofcial del ejercito, con quien guarda un asombroso parecido. Finalmente, por un azar del destino, Danny queda libre y comienza a poner en practica su venganza.Una novela de intriga que reune todos los ingredientes imprescindibles del genero: un heroe maltratado, malvados depreciables, una trama atrapante e ingeniosa y un fnal incierto. ¡Cien por cien Archer! Las vivencias carcelarias del autor añaden realismo y autenticidad a sus descripciones de la vida en prision.

They had only one thing in common... William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant - two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. The marvellous story, spanning 60 years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save... and finally destroy... each other.

Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly awaited collection of short stories, Tell Tale, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years.Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in The Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his fathers wealth changes his life in the most profound way.Revel in the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s in A Gentleman and a Scholar, and another young woman who thumbs a lift and gets more than she bargained for in A Wasted Hour.These wonderfully engaging and always refreshingly original tales prove not only why Archer has been compared to Dahl and Maugham, but why he was described by The Times as probably the greatest storyteller of our age.

Für die Cliftons und Barringtons kommt die Zeit, in der sich die verschlungenen Wege der beiden Familien und vielen Generationen zum letzten Mal kreuzen. Während für Giles Barrington und seine Frau Karin das Glück auf Messers Schneide steht, scheinen Harry und Emma Clifton am Gipfel ihrer Karrieren zu stehen. Doch dann melden sich alte Feinde zurück und das Spiel des Schicksals kommt zum tragischen Finale ...

Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery of the origins of his father''s wealth changes his life forever. Follow the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s, and another young woman who thumbs a lift and has an encounter of a lifetime.From the master of the short story, the refreshingly original stories in Tell Tale prove why Archer has been described by the Mail on Sunday as `probably the greatest storyteller of our age''.

Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen 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 pretentious schoolboy whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life forever. Follow the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s, and another young woman who thumbs a lift and has an encounter of a lifetime. From the master of the short story, the refreshingly original stories in Tell Tale prove why Archer has been described by the Mail on Sunday as `probably the greatest storyteller of our age'.

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 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry discovers the truth about how his father really died and if, in fact, he even was his father. Only Time Will Tell takes a cast of memorable characters from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take his place at Oxford, or join the fight against Hitler's Germany. In Jeffrey Archer's masterful hands, you will be taken on a journey that you won't want to end, even after you turn the last page of this unforgettable yarn, because you will be faced with a dilemma that neither you, nor Harry Clifton could ever have anticipated.

"Me dijeron que a mi padre lo mataron en la guerra" Así arranca, en 1919, en los muelles de Bristol, la épica singladura de Harry Clifton. El destino parece depararle un futuro miserable: casi no ha conocido a su padre, y su madre trabaja de sol a sol para sacar adelante la familia que completan un abuelo sordo y un hermano alcoholico. Pero Harry tiene un as en la manga: una prodigiosa voz que le permitira entrar en una exclusiva escuela y cambiar su destino para descubrir su verdadero origen. ¿Que precio pagara Harry para conocer toda la verdad? Solo el tiempo lo dira.