JEFFREY ARCHER

464 pp

He should never have opened the envelope ...Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the results can only be pitiful. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave - except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter Adam fears can only bring further disgrace to the family name. Against his mother's wishes, Adam opens...

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? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who worked in Bristol dock...

Danny and Spencer were born on different sides of the track. Danny leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. Spencer a graduate of Cambridge University. After leaving university he becomes a crimin ...