Cometh the Hour (The Clifton Chronicles) - Hardcover

Archer, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410485331 ISBN 13: 9781410485335

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print, 2016

Synopsis

In the aftermath of a devastating suicide, Harry Clifton continues his efforts to rescue Anatoly Babakov from a Siberian gulag, while his wife Emma counsels Margaret Thatcher with unexpected consequences and their friends endure heartache and financial setbacks. By the best-selling author of The Sins of the Father. (suspense).

About this title

About the Author

JEFFREY ARCHER was educated at Oxford University. He has served five years in Britain's House of Commons and nineteen years in the House of Lords. All of his novels and short story collections-including "Best Kept Secret," "The" "Sins of the Father," "Kane and Abel," and "False Impression"-have been international bestselling books. Archer is married with two sons and lives in London and Cambridge.

From Publishers Weekly

This sixth, and penultimate, addition to the Clifton Chronicles series (after Mightier Than the Sword) continues with the Cliftons and the Barringtons in the 1970s—their family fortunes and travails, love affairs, political dramas, business mishaps and espionage entanglements. The story begins with a libel trial and a suicide note, bringing embarrassment and consequences for Emma and Harry Clifton, Lady Virginia Fenwick, and Sir Giles Barrington. Sir Giles, in love with an East German translator, risks everything to bring her over the Berlin Wall and to England, but is she smitten or a spy? Meanwhile, Lady Virginia, Sir Giles's ex-wife, is becoming desperate after having been financially cut off by her father. She victimizes a wealthy, gullible American in an outrageous scam, but the victim's wife is on to her. Emma's husband, best-selling author Harry Clifton, uses his photographic memory and oratory skills to help the world recognize a Nobel Prize-winning, imprisoned Russian author. Emma and Harry's son, Sebastian, still has a messy love life which now turns shockingly violent. Archer continues his storytelling magic to create characters of spellbinding substance, and readers can count on his surprising twists and shocking conclusion. Here, just when the end seems too tidy, Archer provides a killer cliffhanger. (Feb.)\n

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410485331
• ISBN 13: 9781410485335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 691