As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line?
This introductory novel in Archer's engrossing series The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler's Germany. From the docks of working-class England to the bustling streets of New York City, Only Time Will Tell takes readers on a journey through to future volumes, which will bring to life one hundred years of recent history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined.
When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the untanned skin of Southern California's high society.
Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering. The doors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely. Now Johnny Weatherly was going to solve this murder—by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown. Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow.
That day comes suddenly when his grandfather dies leaving him the floundering business. With the help of Becky Salmon, an enterprising young woman, Charlie sets out to make a name for himself as "The Honest Trader". But the brutal onset of World War I takes Charlie far from home and into the path of a dangerous enemy whose legacy of evil follows Charlie and his family for generations.
Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century. The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.
Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a brilliant artist who walked into the desert and simply disappeared. He left behind a bevy of muses, molls, dolls, and dames-each one scrambling for what they thought was rightfully theirs.
Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out.
Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories, A Twist in the Tale, will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget. No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.
From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer takes us to places we've never seen and introduces us to people we'll never forget.
Meet the philandering husband who thinks he's committed the perfect murder; the self-assured chess champion who plays a beautiful woman for stakes far higher than cash; and the finance minister who needs to crack the secrets of a Swiss bank. In The Chill a distraught young man hires private investigator Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride.
But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer.
In this fast-paced historical thriller, 1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder -- or risk returning to prison. It's When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job--and don't ever associate with loose women.
The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within a single night, his search for gainful employment--and a stiff drink--leads him to a local bar, where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman, Hank Pittleman.
Soon Archer discovers that recovering the debt won't be so easy. The indebted man has a furious grudge against Hank and refuses to pay; Hank's clever mistress has her own designs on Archer; and both Hank and Archer's stern parole officer, Miss Crabtree, are keeping a sharp eye on him. When a murder takes place right under Archer's nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict, and Archer realizes that the crime could send him right back to prison.
Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way.
The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil. Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man. Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle—a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved.
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Ross MacDonald Book Review:. Watch my reviews, wrap-ups, tags, and much more book related things! The Name is Archer stories probably previously published between and These six stories are printed under the name John Ross Macdonald, who changed his pen name to Ross MacDonald, probably so as not to be confused with John D. Ross Macdonald is best known as author of the Lew Archer series of hardboiled detective novels.
But he also wrote a few Lew Archer short stories. The Name is Archer consists of 7 of these stories. The writing in all 7 stories is first rate. Through all these, the author that was in him came to life and all through, he continues to thrill his readers and expand his fan-base. A few weeks after birth his family moved from. Jeffrey Archer. A political aspirant turned author, Jeffrey Archer seems to delight in conspiracy and simple twists of fate in his fiction, even as these forces have shaped a rocky course in his own life.
Misfortune led Archer to write the book that began his career, but fate seems to have smiled on his bestselling books. Following protagonist Harry Clifton, the series brings to life the key historical and political events of the 20th century over the course of one. Find all Jeffrey Archer new have a growing list of new Jeffrey Archer books and novels for you to enjoy in Keep up to date with upcoming Jeffrey Archer releases Many readers are wondering, are there new Jeffrey Archer books releasing in.
Here atwe have the official list of new and upcoming Jeffrey Archer releases. Jeffrey Archer is an English author and former politician, whose political career ended following a financial scandal.
As far as his literary career goes, he has written novels, short stories and plays. Take a quick look at the list of Jeffrey Archer books sorted by publishing date below. R Tolkien. Extremely agile and master of the bow and sword, he is the son of the Elvenking Thranduil. The ancestors of the Archer family brought their name to England in the wave of migration after the Norman Conquest of The name Archer is for a bowman, and derives from the French L'Archer of the same meaning.
Early Origins of the Archer family. Books by Jeffrey Archer. The opening salvo in a new, page-turning sequence from master storyteller Jeffrey Archer, Nothing Ventured introduces the detective William Warwick.
Nothing Ventured. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective. Jeffrey Archer is a British author, who achieved fame and notoriety as a Member of Parliament before turning his hand to writing fiction.
Archer was never far from scandal during his time in Parliament, and although his time as a politician ended around the turn of the 21st century, Archer remained a much-respected member of the literary community, and his books, including his prison diaries.
Click on a book cover for a plot summary of each novel. Green Arrow Green Arrow is a comic book archer, who had to learn his skills whilst stranded on a desert island. This was before finding a way back to right the wrongs of his father and to protect his city. The first comic that featured Oliver Queen was published incontinuing to be a fan favorite. Pages in category "Fictional archers" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of 98 total.
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