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PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-100312944098

ISBN-139780312944094

eBay Product ID (ePID)66230272

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Book TitlePrisoner of Birth : a Novel

Number of Pages640 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Legal, Thrillers / Suspense

Publication Year2008

GenreFiction

AuthorJeffrey Archer

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight10.9 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width4.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"A compelling read." -Newsday "Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages."Â -The Boston Globe "Thoroughly enjoyable."-Publishers Weekly "Dynamiteâ€¦plot twists and a slam-bang finale."-The Washington PostÂ , "A compelling read." -- Newsday "Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages." -- The Boston Globe "Thoroughly enjoyable." -- Publishers Weekly "Dynamite...plot twists and a slam-bang finale." -- The Washington Post, "A compelling read." - Newsday "Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages." - The Boston Globe "Thoroughly enjoyable."- Publishers Weekly "Dynamiteâ€¦plot twists and a slam-bang finale."- The Washington Post, "A compelling read." -Newsday"Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages."Â -The Boston Globe"Thoroughly enjoyable."-Publishers Weekly"Dynamiteâ€¦plot twists and a slam-bang finale."-The Washington PostÂ

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisIf Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson on any other day, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the prosecution witnesses happen to be a group of four upper-crust college friends--a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm's history--who is going to believe Danny's side of the story? Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. But Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny's determination to seek revenge--and the extent to which his fianc e Beth will go in pursuit of justice., International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer returns with a tale of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge with A Prisoner of Birth. Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his fianceé up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation. A few hours later Danny is arrested for murder and later is sentenced to twenty-two years in prison, thanks to irrefutable testimony from Spencer, the prosecution's main witness. Danny spends the next few years in a high-security prison while Spencer Craig's career as a lawyer goes straight up. All the while Danny plans to escape and wreak his revenge. Thus begins Jeffrey Archer's poignant novel of deception, hatred and vengeance, in which only one of them can finally triumph while the other will spend the rest of his days in jail. But which one will triumph? This suspenseful novel takes the listener through so many twists and turns that no one will guess the ending, even the most ardent of Archer's many, many fans.