Another well done Archer

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	• A Prisoner of Birth Jeffrey Archer St. Martin's Press, 2008 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 45 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Another well done Archer

Good page turner, keeps the reader guessing and wanting to reach the end. Another good one by Jeffrey Archer

Great book!

Every once in a while you read a book that you have to recommend to everyone you know. Move this book to the top of your list!

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Archer's best

Jeffrey Archer said he hoped to write a book better than his first and he succeeded here. As he said in his interview at the end of the audio version of A Prisoner of Birth, in a story of revenge a person has to have a "pot of gold" in order to have the time to spend on a game of revenge. And he wanted to find a very creative way to get Danny out of jail. He was successful on all counts. I'm not sure I believed the prison sections, although Archer insists the content here is based on his personal experience in jail. However, going to jail for perjury and going to jail for murder would put offenders in different cell blocks with different rules, so I think there is not as much of a reality base in those sequences as Archer thinks there is. Nevertheless, he successfully suspends a reader's belief system and weaves a great tale. The end is perfect. He doesn't rush it, which many authors tend to do. Yet he doesn't diminish it with a lot of detail. It's a surprise, yet he foreshadows it very early on in the book. The subtly of the foreshadowing is so good that the reader totally forgets about it. Awesome writing technique. It's one of the best endings to a well crafted story that I've read in a long time. The other reviewers on this book give endless story briefs, so I won't do so myself. But buy it. If you prefer audio, the reader is outstanding. I sat in my garage on many a night coming home from work to see what happened next. Either purchase is well worth your money.

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Most Excellent Book

I am not a person who normally writes a review. But, I want all of you to know a good book when you see one. All of you will definitely enjoy this one. There was not one boring page and not any places where the pace slowed down. The story was very cleverly written and I am a Jeffrey Archer fan from now on. This was the first of his books I have ever read and never have read one even similar to this one. Revenge is sweet when done in the right way. The ending was fabulous.

I just got another one of Archer's books and looking forward to it as well.

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A ripping good yarn

I only have one good friend that is a voracious reader besides my wife. He gave me this book about a week ago and said it was terrific but it took him awhile to get into it. I was into it literally from page one. In fact, I felt it bogged down just a slight bit in the mid section as the main character plotted his revenge. Nonetheless I cannot give this terrific page turner 5 stars, because I am extremely bothered by one major plot point. I do not want to add any spoilers other than to say that the major twist at the end should not have been a twist. It should have occurred around page 60 or so, but then we would never have had the fun of reading a very good story. If you have read the book and want to discuss it by commenting, feel free, because this one plot issue just bugs the heck out of me, and I am wondering if it bugged anyone else. Still I highly recommend this entertaining tale.

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International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in a story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge.

If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm?s history, who is going to believe your side of the story?

Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped.

However, Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny?s determination to seek revenge, and Beth?s relentless quest to pursue justice, which ends up with all four fighting for their lives,

Thus begins Jeffrey Archer?s most powerful novel since Kane and Abel, with a cast of characters that will remain with you long after you?ve turned the last page.

And if that is not enough, prepare for an ending that will shock even the most ardent of Archer?s fans.

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