The little Chinese statue was the next
item to come under the auctioneer’s
hammer. Lot 103 caused those quiet
murmurings that always precede the sale
of a masterpiece. The auctioneer’s
assistant held up the delicate piece of
ivory for the packed audience to admire
while the auctioneer gl...
, First came his financial caper
NOT A PENNY MORE,
NOT A PENNY LESS.
Then a political thriller
SHALL
WE TELL THE PRESIDENT?
Then the brilliant bestsellers
KANE AND ABEL and
THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
Now Jeffrey Archer has taken up a new
challenge with this, his first collection of
short stories. The locations move from
New York and London to Mexico and
Nigeria. Each tale reveals the author’s
talents as a short storyteller, and, as
, befits the form, he uses the stories to
build up a small cast of characters and
then shock the reader with an unexpected
final twist.
Few people will guess the endings of
any of the tales, and everyone will have
their own favourite. What is certain is
that with this archer every story
unerringly hits its mark!
A QUIVER FULL OF ARROWS
‘Somerset Maughamnever penned
anything so swift or so urbanely satiric
as this’
Publishers Weekly
‘A quite delightful collection of short
stories… distinguished by lightness of
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