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And Thereby Hangs A Tale
The story is about Jamwal and Nisha, who fall in love while waiting at a traffic signal. Thus begins one of the 15 stories Jeffrey has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in his sixth collection of enthralling short stories named "And Thereby Hangs a Tale". "Some of the stories will make you laugh. Others will bring you to tears. And once again, every one of them will keep you spellbound."
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Assegai
It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from Von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and Von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.
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Toxin
Recently divorced surgeon Dr Kim Reggis is determined toremain a good father to this only child, Becky. One night he takes her to afast-food restaurant for a feast of burgers and fries, but tragedy strikes whenthe young girl falls ill. She dies horrifically several days later, as a resultof poisoning by E.coli bacteria. Everything suggests her death was the result ofshoddy food-handling practices, but who is going to admit to that? Frantic withgrief, Kim throws all his energies into tracing the cause of contamination. Heis well prepared for bureaucratic indifference, but is soon met with terrifyingviolence as powerful vested interests conspire to discourage his enquiries. Aidedby his ex-wife, Kim pursues a deadly trail of complicity and guilt stretchingfrom the slaughterhouse floor to the corporate boardroom. And, in a race againsttime before others are poisoned, they finally come face to face with theshocking and elusive truth... meanwhile putting their own lives in extremedanger. In Toxin, the acknowledged master of the medical thriller againdelivers a cutting-edge drama that combine today's worst fears with tomorrow'smedical technology.
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First Family
The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and MichelleMaxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her thensenator husband from political disaster. And this may not be all that passed between them. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them -and the line between friend and foe impossible to define ...or defend
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Paper Money
Three seemingly unrelated events occur on a single morning in London. An MP wakes up after spending the night with a beautiful young woman. A tycoon meets a leading Bank of England official for breakfast. And an underworld gang boss briefs his crew. Nothing so far to keep the tabloid editors awake. Until ambitious young reporter Kevin Hart uncovers his first promising link...'
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The MODIGLIANI SCANDAL
Modigliani. Unarguably one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Modigliani's women. Those elongated, haunting figures, as eternally provocative as the Mona Lisa. And Modigliani's missing masterpiece. A priceless lost treasure - or a chillingly dangerous game?
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Silks
When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge's guilty verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason expect that he'll be seeing Trent again much sooner than he'd ever imagined. Setting aside his barrister's wig, Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey, his true passion is to be found in the saddle, on a thoroughbred, pounding the turf. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered - a pitchfork driven through his chest - the prime suspect is champion jockey Steve Mitchell and the evidence is overwhelming. Mason, reluctant to heed Mitchell's pleas for legal advice, soon finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of threat and intimidation and is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death...his own.
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Lovelines Forever Far
When Skye applies for a job as a nanny in England, it seems the perfect opportunity to travel the world with her boyfriend, Ben. By the time she gets the job it turns out to be an opportunity to get away from him. Eventually she settles down in London, but not before facing a few more dramas.
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A story of Irish Betrayal
They were called the dynamiters - and their mission was to begin a wave of terrorist attacks on England. They were ruled from America by the Triangle, bosses of a huge Irish-American patriotic society campaining for self-government for Ireland. The gripping true story of what happened to Dr Patrick Henry Cronin.
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A Woman Without Lies
An artist in glass and light, Angel has loved with passion and fire -- and learned the true depths of sadness when what she loved was taken from her. When she first meets Miles Hawkins -- a solitary, distant man -- their mutual mistrust seems insurmountable. Hawk has never known what Angel has freely enjoyed, having experienced only cruelty and betrayal from the women in his life. But Angel is willing to risk everything that proud, silent Hawk cannot, as she strives to bring truth and love to a tormented soul who believes in neither. Yet giving her heart again could be a gamble with stakes too high and too painful for her to endure -- for she fears that, by loving Hawk, she will surely lose him.
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A Prison Diary By FF 8282
The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting - his first offence, not even convicted - and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.' On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals. This is the author's daily record of the time he spent there.