A Prisoner of Birth | 
|  | | | Title: | A Prisoner of Birth | | Author: | Jeffrey Archer | | Publisher: | St. Martin's Press | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 04 March, 2008 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0312379293 / 9780312379292 | | List Price: | $27.95 | | You Save: | $9.50 | | Amazon Price: | $18.45 | |
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International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in a story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge.
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm’s history, who is going to believe your 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.
However, Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny’s determination to seek revenge, and Beth’s relentless quest to pursue justice, which ends up with all four fighting for their lives,
Thus begins Jeffrey Archer’s most powerful novel since Kane and Abel, with a cast of characters that will remain with you long after you’ve turned the last page.
And if that is not enough, prepare for an ending that will shock even the most ardent of Archer’s fans.
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Customer Reviews:
• Great Read 02 May, 2008
This was an enthralling story.Archer has done it again and written a novel that was hard to put down.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1Z9COEXSCO1A6
• Proof That The Best Writing Is Not Done In Prison 11 May, 2008
Assuming that Lord Archer based part of this book on his own experience in Her Majesty's prisons, he surely got the rest from literary classics and old TV shows.
In the hierarchy of tales whose plots center on switched identities, the greatest by far is A Tale of Two Cities. After that we have The Prince and the Pauper, and perhaps after that The Parent Trap and the Patty Duke Show ("we are cousins, identical cousins"), and finally way down the list is Jeffrey Archer's A Prisoner of Birth.
It defies credulity that a Scottish peer and a wrongfully convicted East End mechanic could be brought together in prison and switch places. As a result the characters are cartoonish and the subplots either contrived or predicable.
Anything by John Mortimer is better than this.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A32O5FZH994CNY
• Ken Dowe Reviews Jeffrey Archer's Prisoner Of Birth 03 May, 2008
Here's a book that proves there is good reason Mr. Archer is Great Britain's best selling novelist. What good can come when a Cockney lad shares a pint with his fiance and his best friend in the wrong (posh) end of London inside a pub full of drunken gentry? A few sodden comments, a leer here and there, and his friend lies dead outside the drinking establishment. With enough money, one can avoid the consequences of sin in any court. With power, pounds, and position, the three guilty "gentlemen" can manuever through the English courts with relative ease. The innocent "Danny" loses his lover, his unborn child, and 20+ years of his life. But, education can find its way even through locked cells, if one seeks it. In prison Danny is tutored by a genteel man whose own world has been rocked. Danny becomes a student of protocol. He is taught to dress like, talk like, and becomes even more of a look-a-like of his new friend and mentor. Suddenly, during a prison riot, Danny's soon to be released friend is killed. Fortuitously, (and because it makes for a great story!), Danny is mistakenly identified as his teacher, and summarily released from prison. It this was a great story before, and it was, PRISONER OF BIRTH now goes to max power and soars. Danny, becomes his friend. With all the accoutrements of fortune, and the new faculty of mind and body to right quite a number of wrongs. The first of whom will be each of the dandies who conspired to admit him to a generation of confinement. Vengence may be the Lord's, but the Almighy likely could not have done a better job of bringing the "olde public school tie boys" to their days of judgment. And, then there is the final twist. Of course, Danny is found out, and naturally he loses all that he gains; because, in the end justice must prevail. Or, must it? And, after all justice isn't always what comes out of a courtroom. Sometimes, "One good act of vengeance deserves another." This is an extremely entertaining read. Buy it. Buy two, in the event your spouse begins PRISONER and takes yours from you...
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• Wonderful Read 08 May, 2008
I have not previously read any of Mr. Archer's many novels. That will be corrected in short order.
"A Prisoner of Birth" is simply a wonderful read. The story is masterfully crafted, the characters are extremely well developed, and the story moves logically, yet with a perfectly exact number of surprises. This novel resulted in a couple of laugh out loud moments for this reader and a few: "atta boys" when things went well.
The original plot of man wrongly convicted has been done many, many times before, but rarely, if ever, with such aplomb.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2FGCGLTT10LVH
• Good Stuff Happens 15 May, 2008
I don't like British authors. I think they get paid by the word. But this story is fun. Throughout the book things turn out well, rather than lots of misery resolved in the last few pages. It's a feel-good book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1QA8CFOV2I62J
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