Il suffit parfois de se trouver au mauvais endroit au mauvais moment pour voir basculer le cours de sa vie... Si Danny Cartwright avait demandé Beth Wilson en mariage un jour plus tôt, ou un jour plus tard, il n'aurait jamais pu être accusé du meurtre de son meilleur ami. Mais quand les quatre témoins de l'accusation sont un avocat, un acteur à succès, un aristocrate et le plus jeune associé d'une prestigieuse agence immobilière, qui pourrait bien croire à la version des faits d'un garagiste de l'East End ? Danny est donc condamné à vingt-deux années d'emprisonnement dans le quartier de haute sécurité de la prison de Belmarsh, duquel personne ne s'est jamais échappé. Seulement, ses adversaires ont sous-estimé le désir de revanche du jeune homme et la farouche détermination de sa fiancée à faire entendre justice...Prix Polar international 2009.

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Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy?Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot.Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Nadira, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings.Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. Harry's wife Emma convinces her new friend Margaret Thatcher to raise the subject with the Russian President when she visits Moscow. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the five previous novels - all of which went to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list - showcases Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists.

Le temps est venu (The Clifton Chronicles, #6)

Danny Cartwright et Spencer Craig ne sont pas nés du même côté de la barrière.Danny, fils d'ouvrier, a grandi dans le East End, les faubourgs populaires de Londres, et a quitté le collège technique à 15 ans pour aller travailler au garage local. Il est tombé amoureux de Beth, la fille de son patron et vient de la demander en mariage.Spencer Craig vit dans le West End, les quartiers chics. Diplômé d'un établissement privé puis de l'université de Cambridge, il a ensuite passé le barreau pour devenir procureur spécialisé dans les affaires criminelles. Il devrait bientôt devenir l'un des plus jeunes conseillers de Son Altesse.Danny et Beth ont décidé d'aller fêter l'annonce de leurs fiancailles dans le West End. Ils finissent leur soirée dans le bar à vins où Spencer célèbre, lui, son trentième anniversaire avec une poignée de camarades d'université triés sur le volet. Quatre jeunes gens brillants promis à de grandes carrières.Danny et Spencer n'auraient jamais du se rencontrer. Mais cette soirée va changer leur destinée à tout jamais...Une heure après leur rencontre, l'un d'entre eux est arrêté pour meurtre tandis que l'autre sera appelé à être le témoin principal d'un procès qui s'annonce retentissant...

An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive .

Twelve Red Herrings

William Warwick a été promu et intègre la brigade des stupéfiants. Ses membres ont pour objectif prioritaire d'appréhender Assem Rashidi, le fameux baron de la drogue du sud de Londres, connu sous le nom de La Vipère.
Alors que l'enquête progresse, William va devoir faire face à des adversaires redoutables tout droit revenus de son passé. Son ennemi juré, Miles Faulkner, est toujours libre, mais une erreur de jugement de sa part pourrait bien le voir partir en prison. William et sa fiancée Beth s'occupent des préparatifs de leur mariage sans se douter qu'une mauvaise surprise les attend à l'autel.
William devra ruser pour traduire en justice Miles Faulkner et Assem Rashidi en élaborant un stratagème qu'aucun des deux hommes ne pourra prévoir, un piège caché à la vue de tous...

Ni vu ni connu

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny.In the late 1940's in Hartford, Connecticut a set of twins is parted at birth. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as Fletcher Andrew Davenport, the only son of a multi-millionaire and his society wife. During the years that follow, the two brothers grow up unaware of each other's existence. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam. He returns a war hero, finishes school and becomes a successful banker. Fletcher, meanwhile, has graduated from Yale University and distinguishes himself as a criminal defense lawyer before he is elected to the Senate. Even when Nat and Fletcher fall in love with the same girl they still don't meet. They continue on their separate paths until one has to defend the other for a murder he did not commit. But the final confrontation comes when Nat and Fletcher are selected to stand against each other for governor of the state.In the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's most popular books, Sons of Fortune is as much a chronicle of a nation in transition as it is the story of two remarkable men and how, eventually, they come to discover the truth - and its extraordinary consequences...

Freres et rivaux

Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham. Back in London, Harry and Emma's adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until the future mother-in-law, has a visit from an old friend who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice. Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated, and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastle's first decision is who to support to become the next chairman of the board, and with that decision, the story takes yet another twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Continue the bestselling series with Mightier than the Sword and Cometh the Hour.

Be Careful What You Wish For

With a twisting plot of false accusation and revenge, A Prisoner of Birth is an exhilarating novel from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. 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. And 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 his side of the story?Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and is sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. But everyone has underestimated Danny's determination to seek revenge and Beth's relentless quest to win justice .

A Prisoner of Birth

Le roman d'apprentissage d'un jeune Anglais sur 70 ans. Un apprentissage qui tourne au succès accompagné de son cortège de joies et de malheurs. Une fresque sociale qu'animent de vrais personnages.

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