A Prisoner of Birth

International bestseller Jeffrey Archer returns with his most enthralling novel since Kane and Abel

The Washington Post - Patrick Anderson

Readers who stick with this 500-page novel will eventually decide to ignore its improbabilities and focus on whether Danny can get out of the mess. Of course, anyone with half a brain knows how this morality play will turn out, but Archer tosses in various plot twists and a slam-bang final courtroom scene that will leave his fans exhausted but satisfied.

A political aspirant turned author, Jeffrey Archer seems to delight in conspiracy and simple twists of fate in his fiction, even as these forces have shaped a rocky course in his own life. Misfortune led Archer to write the book that began his career, but fate seems to have smiled on his bestselling books.