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False Impression

A gripping, globe-spanning art heist thriller from the international bestselling author

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False Impression

By: Jeffrey Archer
Narrated by: Lorelei King
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'Probably the greatest storyteller of our age' – The Mail on Sunday

Would you risk your life for a painting? Globe-spanning and truly page-turning, False Impression is a compulsive thriller from Jeffrey Archer, bestselling author of The Clifton Chronicles and the William Warwick novels.

The night before the attacks of 9/11, an older, aristocratic woman is brutally murdered in her country home. It takes all the resources of both the FBI and Interpol to deduce the motive for her death: a priceless Van Gogh painting. It takes a courageous, determined young woman – who was in the North Tower as the first plane crashed – to take on both sides of the law and avenge the woman's death.

After 9/11, Anna Petrescu is missing, presumed dead. But she is alive, and uses her new status to escape from America – only to be pursued across the world, from Toronto to London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bucharest. But it is only upon her return to New York that the mystery unfolds . . .

Why are so many people willing to risk their own lives and others to own the Van Gogh ‘Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear’?

'If there were a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win' – The Daily Telegraph

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I read this almost non stop. It’s certainly a page turner but it will always be Kane and Abel and his earlier work as Archer at his very best. This was still a good book though and I recommend it highly.

Classic Archer story telling.

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False impressions days Insight to the art world and the murky side of finance

A great read

Great novel that entertained and informed

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It was not up to Jeffrey Archer usual high standard. I had to put it on faster speed to get through it. Boring predicablty

Boring

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I have been a fan of Jeffrey Archer for many years but this was not his best. The context of the story was good with the backdrop of 9/11 but the story was a little contrived and unbelievable.
The narration was awful, It was like listening to an episode of Scooby Do, including the villans voices.

Not his best

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