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A Prisoner of Birth | 
| Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 3011
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.8
ISBN: 0312379293
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780312379292
ASIN: 0312379293
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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Product Description
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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 One of the best books I've read recently July 22, 2008
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I found it compelling and I did not want to put it down. I think the author did a great job weaving an intricate story. I love to have someone to root for and I got that in Danny Cartwright. I found myself thinking about this book many times as if the events were actually occurring in real life. I liked the fast pace of the book too.
There were definitely a few things that didn't seem realistic to me but I was willing to suspend reality a bit for a good story. Probably the biggest problem for me was to have a completely illiterate man become not only proficient in his academic abilities over a very short time but excel beyond all others in his college courses or leap from not being able to read at all to reading Bleak House and the like.
Absolutely worth your time to read this book!
 Wow! July 7, 2008
The Audio CD is wonderful! The narrator does an excellent job of making the incredibly fast-paced story come alive. If the rest of Jeffrey Archer's books are like this, I've got my summer reading lined up. Very clever!
highly entertaining!!! July 6, 2008
wonderful summer read! This is the first Jeffrey Arthur novel I have read, but am on my way to the library to pick up a few more. If you enjoy mystery, suspense and legal thrillers, give this one a try. I doubt you will be disappointed.
A must read!! July 6, 2008
This is the best of everything Archer has written. WEll done all the way through!!!
Very good- Recommended July 5, 2008
This is a very enjoyable novel. I don't want to repeat everything everyone below said but I thought I would mention if you enjoyed this retake of The Count Monte Cristo I would also recommend Crux by Richard Aellen. I read it several years ago and I thought it was a fantastic novel. It's set during the Vietnam War. I highly recommend it.
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