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- Narrated by: Roger Allam
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As the Crow Flies
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
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Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps - his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell everything: 'The Biggest Barrow in the World'. Charlie's progress from the teeming streets of Whitechapel to the elegance of Chelsea Terrace is only a few miles as the crow flies.
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Another good Jeffrey Archer yarn
- By Kathie Tighe on 07-10-2023
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Kane and Abel
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
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Kane & Abel for a new generation!!
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 were 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.
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very good
- By Amazon Customer on 07-02-2019
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Only Time Will Tell: Clifton Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Roger Allam, Emilia Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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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?
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Loved this from the start
- By H. Anthony on 19-11-2016
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Heads You Win
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and best-selling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer. Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive.
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Clifton Chronicles Revisited
- By Hugh on 16-11-2018
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A Matter of Honour
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the contents can only be meagre. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave - except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter that can only bring further disgrace to the family name. Against his mother's advice, Adam opens the letter, and immediately realizes his life can never be the same again. The contents leave him with no choice but to follow a course his father would have described as a matter of honour.
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Archer at his best
- By Jonathan W on 02-01-2021
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Nothing Ventured
- William Warwick, Book 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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William Warwick is eight when he decides to join the police force. Resolute in the face of his prominent QC father’s objections, William graduates in Art History from university and immediately enrols as a constable in the Metropolitan Police. Gaining insight from his first mentor, an experienced, world-weary constable, his keen mind quickly takes him into a role in Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques unit and his first case: the recovery of a Rembrandt stolen from the Fitzmolean Museum.
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Loved it!! So happy to have this storyteller back in my life!!
- By Lexi on 18-09-2019
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As the Crow Flies
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
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Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps - his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell everything: 'The Biggest Barrow in the World'. Charlie's progress from the teeming streets of Whitechapel to the elegance of Chelsea Terrace is only a few miles as the crow flies.
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Another good Jeffrey Archer yarn
- By Kathie Tighe on 07-10-2023
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Kane and Abel
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
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Kane & Abel for a new generation!!
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 were 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.
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very good
- By Amazon Customer on 07-02-2019
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Only Time Will Tell: Clifton Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Roger Allam, Emilia Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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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?
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Loved this from the start
- By H. Anthony on 19-11-2016
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Heads You Win
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and best-selling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer. Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive.
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Clifton Chronicles Revisited
- By Hugh on 16-11-2018
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A Matter of Honour
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the contents can only be meagre. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave - except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter that can only bring further disgrace to the family name. Against his mother's advice, Adam opens the letter, and immediately realizes his life can never be the same again. The contents leave him with no choice but to follow a course his father would have described as a matter of honour.
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Archer at his best
- By Jonathan W on 02-01-2021
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Nothing Ventured
- William Warwick, Book 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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William Warwick is eight when he decides to join the police force. Resolute in the face of his prominent QC father’s objections, William graduates in Art History from university and immediately enrols as a constable in the Metropolitan Police. Gaining insight from his first mentor, an experienced, world-weary constable, his keen mind quickly takes him into a role in Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques unit and his first case: the recovery of a Rembrandt stolen from the Fitzmolean Museum.
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Loved it!! So happy to have this storyteller back in my life!!
- By Lexi on 18-09-2019
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False Impression
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11, it takes all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her and the possible motive for her death: a priceless Van Gogh painting. Meanwhile, Anna Petrescu is missing and presumed dead after 9/11. She uses her new status to escape from America and avenge the old lady's death.
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Enjoyable!
- By Anonymous User on 16-07-2021
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First Among Equals
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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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 and families, men and women caught up in a dramatic game for the highest stakes of all. But only one man can gain the ultimate goal - the office of Prime Minister.
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The accents make this story very difficult to follow
- By Diana Baldi on 22-08-2023
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The Fourth Estate
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
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Lubji Hoch escapes from the Nazis, moves to Berlin and changes his name to Richard Armitage. After a successful career in the British Army, he takes over a struggling newspaper and with unrivalled ruthlessness begins building his media empire. Meanwhile, Keith Townsend, the son of a millionaire and Oxford educated, returns to Australia from London to take over his father's newspaper with similar ambitions. As both men move their quest for power to the world stage, they realise they are more than a match for one another's brilliance and ambition.
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Atrocious Australian Accent
- By Sandy on 03-08-2021
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Paths of Glory
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Roger Allam
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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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. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Percy Fawcett, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hillary 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?
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good story
- By Amazon Customer on 25-09-2016
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The Eleventh Commandment
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Michael Brandon
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Connor Fitzgerald is the CIA’s most deadly assassin. On the brink of his retirement, he is sent to Russia for one last hit. Except this isn’t just another job. After a fall out between the CIA and the White House over the assassination of a prominent Colombian politician, his boss is now using the Russian Mafia to cover her tracks. Fitzgerald is not going to St Petersburg to kill, he’s going to die. A page-turning, political thriller about espionage and betrayal by the acclaimed British writer, Jeffrey Archer.
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The Eleventh Commandment
- By Ellinah C on 23-05-2022
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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One million dollars - that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men. They band together and shadow him from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot and the hallowed lawns of Oxford.
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A Great Listen
- By Kathie Tighe on 18-09-2023
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Sons of Fortune
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Michael Brandon
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
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Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire's son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics as a Democrat.
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Mystery right to the End
- By Jacques M on 08-12-2022
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The Firm
- The Firm, Book 1
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
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At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray - doing 15 years in a Tennessee jail - already knew. You never get nothing for nothing.
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Stunning and captivating
- By Gcccc on 29-11-2023
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The Burma Legacy
- By: Geoffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Sam Packer, hero of Firehawk and The Lucifer Network, has a new assignment that will combine all his diplomatic and survival skills. An aging, wealthy Japanese businessman, Tetsuo Kamata, wants to rescue an ailing British car company, but the moment the announcement is made, death threats are made against Kamata by a former prisoner-of -war, Peregrine Harrison,. who was tortured on the infamous Burma Railway. For the last five decades, Harrison has been the leader of a British-based cult.
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A Prison Diary
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first 22 days and 14 hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals. This is the author's daily record of the time he spent there.
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Fantastic
- By Jayden D. on 12-08-2019
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The Boys from Biloxi
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, drugs...even contract killings. The vice was controlled by a small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumoured to be members of the Dixie Mafia.
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Best I’ve read
- By Anonymous User on 25-11-2022
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Twelve Red Herrings
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Joan Walker
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive... a female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle... a young artist gets the biggest break of her career... a restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration... an escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein's death list pays an involuntary visit to his homeland... How will they react? How would you? "Twelve Red Herrings" is the third collection of irresistible short stories from master storyteller, Jeffrey Archer.
Publisher's Summary
You heard it here first: The unabridged edition of A Prisoner of Birth is only available as a download.
This download also includes an interview with Jeffrey Archer about A Prisoner of Birth.
Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track.
Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss's daughter, and asks her to marry him.
Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge University, he becomes a criminal barrister and is soon tipped to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation.
Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craig is also celebrating - his 30th birthday, along with a select group of university chums.
Their lives will never be the same again. For, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, while the other ends up as the prosecution's chief witness in an Old Bailey trial.
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- Joanne
- 14-02-2021
Gripping yarn
Loved this book, the narration and story kept me enthralled. The characters were very believable.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-04-2020
Very captivating and very hard to turn off
I have listen to all of Jeffreys's books and enjoued this most of all. It had intigue suspence and some english/ schottish humor as well.
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- samantha bryant
- 04-07-2021
What a story teller..and how it is told
I read Cain and Abel 25 years ago..before embarking on a degree in English Literature as a mature student. It still remains one of my favourite books. Thank you for yet another gem..it is great to see that after all this time you are still a great story teller.
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- Rodg
- 07-12-2018
Gripping
Easy to become engrossed in the story and could not wait to hear more about the characters, enjoyed all aspects.
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- Olga Anderson
- 18-06-2018
I like this story
I like this story end unpredictable end. exciting .I recommend to my friends and family members.
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- Millet
- 05-08-2017
Inheritance doesn't always determine destiny
Well crafted story, insights into prison life interesting. Archer is a master craftsman. Wont disappoint.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-08-2017
Great read
I don't write reviews, this book is worthy of changing that. Great book and great narration. Cannot recommend highly enough. Enjoy.
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- V J Hobbs
- 04-12-2023
superb holiday reading
I thoroughly enjoyed this. My one piece of advice: do NOT listen to the author's comments at the end of the book. For me, listening to that reduced my enjoyment of the whole experience.
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- Alison
- 27-09-2023
Kept me guessing...
My first Jeffrey Archer book and have say really enjoyed it. Although the story line is a little far fetched at times, it kept me wanting to know what was going to happen next. There are a lot of characters, so you need to keep up with who's who. Revenge can be sweet, when justice finally prevails.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-06-2023
Brilliant
Roger Allam brings the story to life in his inimitable style. Class act!! Another classic Jeffrey Archer special.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-01-2022
brilliant
masterfully crafted, grilling from start to finish, I loved this book. find the time, you won't regret it
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- Michael
- 13-11-2019
One of Jeffrey’s best
Great story, blatant plagiarism based on the Count of Monte Christo done brilliantly with English flair.
Jeffrey doesn’t disappoint. Much from his own experience in prison- itself a travesty of justice.
Thoroughly enjoyable with more twists that a packet of pretzels.
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- Elisa Guazzelli Machado
- 23-07-2018
The Book I Wished For
What could I say? I loved it. The book had everything I hoped for in a plot. Great characters, great twists, legal battles, smart negotiations, background histories, a love story and a sweet revenge. I am a Dumas fan and I agree with the author that it was a challenge to write his own Count of Montecristo. But I believe Archer made a wonderful job for the modern reader. If I could say one negative thing about the book was the fact that it took me a while to warm up to Beth. I admired her loyalty, but couldn’t feel all that the author was trying to convey about her.
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- Ray
- 08-09-2017
This book really got me in!
A thoroughly absorbing tale. Some delightfully humorous Courtroom scenes. A well constructed story that I had difficulty putting down!
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- Ibrahim
- 22-02-2017
Another fantastic Archer book
A great story of one losing a friend and getting accused by his murderer and then finding a way to get even.
The story is most gripping.
Well performed with excellent change of accents.
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- E Vorster
- 03-12-2016
Amazing!
Every time I read or listen to this book I enjoy it. One of my favourites.
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- Butterfly
- 23-02-2016
A fantastic story
I loved this book. The Best Jeffrey Archer ever. Could hardly breathe as I listened to the last chapters.
And 10 out of 10 to Roger Allam.
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- Kuviet
- 31-10-2013
Worth six stars
Cling to your earphones or car stereo! This book will keep you listening. What a story and what a narrator. While listening I gave up trying to anticipate what will happen next - I was wrong every time. Well done JA
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- Clare
- 27-05-2008
Revolutionised the housework!
I am truly impressed! Jeffrey Archer really isn?t someone I would ever have considered listening to in the past but having seen such a high number of great reviews within days of its release and hearing such great feedback from my colleagues I got bitten by the bug and simply had to download! Ok so he?s no Tolstoy, but he had me hooked right from the off and it was wonderfully narrated.
I normally only ever listen to books when going to bed and am completely addicted so won?t even think of retiring without my iPod close at hand. That is until now.... Over the weekend facing a particularly untidy kitchen that I just couldn?t put off any longer and wanting to know what happened next in A Prisoner of Birth I decided I should try combining the 2. I never thought I?d hear myself say this but I have never enjoyed household chores so much in my life. When I?d got the kitchen looking somewhere close to respectable I actually found myself wanting to do more as I didn?t want to stop listening. I ended up cleaning parts of the kitchen I didn?t even know existed! I?ve spent a large part of today thinking about what other jobs I might tackle when I get home! My only concern now (other than the thought that I really should get out more!) is what I listen to next to keep up this momentum!
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- Jean
- 15-04-2008
A Prisoner of Birth (Unabridged
What can i say but a real twist in the tale, very difficult to stop listening even when others wanted to talk to you. You just could not wait to switch back on.
It also shows how someone from a disadvantaged illitetate background can turn their own life around when shown another way.
Well worth a read, it is not too long as this audio book really keeps your attention and when the end does come you want to listen again to bits you have forgotten.
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- Kirstine
- 05-06-2008
Entralling story of changing fortunes
I have to admit to a previous prejudice against Jeffrey Archer's writing quite wrongly believing that it would be poor. How wrong I was to judge by this book! He's a cracking good story-teller. Although the audio book is about 16 hours long it never flags and I couldn't wait to get back to listening to find out what happened next. There are numerous twists and turns in the story that keep one guessing, but none are implausible. The author has used his experiences of incarceration fruitfully not least by adding authenticity to the descriptions of prison life, but he has also done a lot of research into other themes that play an important part in this intriguing story, such as: stamp collecting; how Swiss banks work; and rules of evidence, as well as lesser details about railway timetables. I was reminded a bit of Frederick Forsyth who similarly does a lot of research into details that add credibility to his novels.
Last, but far from least, the reader of this audio book does a superb job in bringing the many characters vividly to life.
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- anthonyunionjackson
- 17-03-2008
Another Ace Archer...
What a great tale - I could not stop listening to it. My only regret is that I bought the abridged version by mistake and have missed out on 10 hrs of great story telling!!!
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- Sue
- 06-04-2011
Enjoyable and captivating
I find with an audio book the story has to be clear and captivating to stop my brain wandering off on irrelevant thoughts! Well there was never a problem with this story. It may not be the most descriptive of prose, but it held my attention the whole time. In book form, it would be described as a 'page turner'. Highly recommended.
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- Jamie
- 13-02-2011
A Prisoner of Birth
Awesome!
I haven't read a Archer book in several years as I have been reading pretty much everything else - Connelly, Leather, Rankin, Cole, Child etc etc BUT after remembering how good 'Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less' was, I thought I would give him a go again. Thankfully I can say he has lost none of his skill at spinning a wicked tale that keeps you on your toes from beginning to end! The way he constructs likeable and loathsome characters is top drawer. A great yarn and it puts Mr Archer right back up near the top of my favourites list along with Lee Child, Stephen Leather and Ian Rankin, however, as I have exhausted all their books I can see many Archer books being consumed in the next few months!
Again - Awesome!
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- Parkyerbike
- 16-05-2008
A great listen
I have never read/listened to an Archer novel and so I didn't know what to expect. How pleased I was when I started listening to this! This keeps you gripped and I find myself driving around the block on my way home from work to listen to a little more (sad eh?). I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys gripping drama.
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- Christine
- 31-12-2008
It's a great book
An excellent book and very well read by the narrator. This kept my attention from beginning to end and lives up to expectations from the Author. Top class book!
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-04-2008
Fantastic
No matter what your opinion on Archer personally, he writes a cracking page turner. This kept me enthralled for hours. The reading quality was excellent as well ie paced & good command of various accents (Cockney, upper class English, Scottish etc)
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- Nigel
- 20-03-2009
first Archer, but not my last
This was my first Archer, as I, like other reviewers, thought it would be pulp fiction. How wrong could I be? the story grips fom the start, and develops apparently endlessly, but I just wanted it to carry on. the story has layer upon layer, never bores and always entertains.
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