Customer Reviews
Farfetched but still brilliant! - By: Ms. A. Archer, 29 Aug 2008 
There is no questioning that this is an improbable plot but this is a brilliant book that will keep you turning the pages.Its fast-paced, unputdownable, gripping & addictive & you will not want to put this one down until you have finished. Mr Archer at his best.
Inside knowledge - By: Tramps like us, 29 Jul 2008 I have never subscribed to the view that Jeffrey Archer should be avoided at alll costs - to me that just smacks of elitism & snobbery. I bought this to go on holiday & thoroughly enjoyed it. It kept me interested & entertained although towards the end I did find myself putting the book down a lot as I did not want to finish it !! To me Jeffrey Archer has always been a good story teller & that is precisely what he does with this book - tells a good story with a fairly typical Jeffrey Archer twist. I have not read alll his books but this does stand up there amongst the best that I have read along with "Not a penny more not a penny less" & "As the crow flies". Due to his recent incarceration in Belmarsh he gets the prison parts of the story as right as can be expected (well I have to trust him on this as I have not been "inside") !!
A very enjoyable book & one that I have no hesitation in recommending
A Prisoner of Mediocrity - By: Rhiannon, 29 Jul 2008 
I so wanted to like this book & it started well, the first 100 pages gallloped along.Then once we got to the Prison section i felt it started to stumble & by the time the first major plot change happened i just couldnt accept it.
It was to me totallly unbelievable & not realistic, & from that point I struggled with continuing.I did continue, but skip read vast chunks & its that poor that I did that & still did not manage to miss any key points.
Archer made his name as a great storyteller, he doesnt have to rip off other authors (eg Dumas)to tell a story.I was very disappointed in this book & hope Archers next foray into authorship is a significant improvement on this tale.
Splendid - By: Clive, 28 Jul 2008 
I liken this story to Archers 'Not a penny more, not a penny less', a novel I equallly enjoyed. Both stories are about revenge for undoing some injustice & have great plots on how the revenge is sought & delivered. Archer's story-telling in this novel is back to his best & it grips the reader from the opening murder & trial of Danny, through to 'Sir Nick's' release from prison & revenge through to the final re-trial of Danny. I only had 3 complaints, i) Book 4 revenge came after 330 pages,and its prior chapter 'freedom' was overly long recounting Nick's re-establishment of family wealth, ii) The character of Danny's fiancee 'Beth' during this ordeal could have been explored in more depth, & iii) The Glaswegian enunciation spelt by Archer for the character Big Al was cumbersome. Otherwise a splendid read, & highly recommended.
Preposterous entertainment - By: John Holmes, 06 Jul 2008 As a big fan of Archer's books, I thought this was no more than a middling affair from an author some distance past his best. Its premise is utterly ludicrous - a bit like Archer himself, I suppose - & I had a difficult time suspending disbelief for any length of time.
The main character, Danny, goes from working class chav to educated toff in less time than it takes to say "You're a James Blunt" - & it is simply ridiculous.
There is, of course, the obligatory auction, along with prison cell & courtroom shennanigans (something which Archer should know about) - & a convoluted revenge plot. Not sure what the shock ending was supposed to be either. Silly, mildly entertaining tripe.
