Customer Reviews
False Impression - jeffrey archer - By: R. White, 24 May 2008 
Good fast paced story that reallly gets you gripped early. Has the added drama of being set at the time of the 9/11 disaster. Main characters interesting & well described.
Well worth the read
Interesting to the last page. - By: Mrs. Margaret S. Muse, 10 Apr 2008 Jeffrey Archer is one of the best authors - I can never put his books down.This one is one of his best.
Nonsense yet a pageturner - By: Darren Simons, 29 Dec 2007 
It's difficult to know what to make of this book... on the one hand it's easy-to-read & a real page turner. The characters are fairly simple to understand, the plot is fairly sequential, & I suppose you'd consider this good holiday reading material. Certain aspects seem very well researched & it's a book that's easy to put down & pick up again without having to go back too far.
On the other hand I would have expected more from Jeffrey Archer - compared to some of his earlier books this is several steps backwards. His characters are not believable, the storyline is far fetched to put it mildly, there's something just thoroughly unconvincing about this book.
If I was to make a comparison to anything I would actuallly liken this book to some of the Sean Dillon stories by Jack Higgins - a page-turner yet completely off this planet!
In terms of a rating, I'd give it five stars for being a page-turner, & one star for being unconvincing... so an average of 3 seems about right.
set in 2001 but makes a 2004 blunder!!! - By: Cielledee, 17 Aug 2007 
Mr Archer- clearly you don't have a smart proofreader! The story is set in 2001 & you mention a 2004 event! Unless your character (Insurance guy) has a crystal balll, he wouldn't have mentioned the "Scream" painting of Edward Munch which was stolen in August 2004. Whoopsy- someone's done a faux pas!
OTherwise, clearly Mr archer hasn't lost his touch, can still write a well-paced interesting read!
No detailed impression! - By: Brolyn, 23 Jul 2007 Whilst the story sped along at a fair pace, it's a pity Mr Archer didn't pay enough attention to some basic details. Would the heroine reallly be able to travel to Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, Bucharest on the $3000 dollars or so she had with her? The flights alone would probably have cost in excess of that-and her accommodation in Tokyo (one of the world's most expensive cities) would surely have depleted her funds. Yes, I was impressed with Mr Archer's knowledge of the art world but rather less with his knowledge of the real world!
