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Best Kept Secret
- The Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings
- Série: Clifton Chronicles, Livre 3
- Durée: 11 h et 15 min
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- Catégories: Romans policiers et thrillers, Thrillers et romans à suspense
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Be Careful What You Wish For
- The Clifton Chronicles, Book 4
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings
- Durée: 11 h et 39 min
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Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to the hospital to learn the fate of their son, Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham.
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Sad he wrote this.
- Écrit par Sara W. le 2019-02-21
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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The Sins of the Father
- Clifton Chronicles, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings, Emilia Fox
- Durée: 10 h et 7 min
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Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German Uboat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw.
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Up To Expectations
- Écrit par Cindy le 2020-09-26
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Mightier than the Sword
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings
- Durée: 12 h et 55 min
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Harry Clifton is more successful than ever as a novelist, and has just been elected president of PEN Britain. He learns of a writer in Russia whose memoir of life inside Stalin's palace has landed the writer in prison for life, his book taken off shelves and destroyed. Harry becomes obsessed with freeing the writer and telling his story. His wife Emma, meanwhile is the chair of Barringtons Shipping, having escaped a plot to destroy their company by bombing one of their luxury liners, and now the company is thriving.
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Cometh the Hour
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings
- Durée: 13 h et 4 min
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Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington, and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy and can see no way out of her financial problems until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Only Time Will Tell
- The Clifton Chronicles, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Roger Allam, Emilia Fox
- Durée: 12 h et 41 min
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From the internationally best-selling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war"....
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Excellent - Recommend
- Écrit par JKL le 2020-04-22
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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This Was a Man
- The Clifton Chronicles, Book 7
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings
- Durée: 12 h et 47 min
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This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife, Karin, from the cabinet secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus while his wife, Emma, completes her 10 years as chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job.
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Memorable Ending to Clifton Chronicles
- Écrit par Sylvie Lamoureux le 2021-10-19
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Be Careful What You Wish For
- The Clifton Chronicles, Book 4
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings
- Durée: 11 h et 39 min
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Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to the hospital to learn the fate of their son, Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham.
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Sad he wrote this.
- Écrit par Sara W. le 2019-02-21
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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The Sins of the Father
- Clifton Chronicles, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings, Emilia Fox
- Durée: 10 h et 7 min
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Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German Uboat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw.
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Up To Expectations
- Écrit par Cindy le 2020-09-26
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Mightier than the Sword
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings
- Durée: 12 h et 55 min
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Harry Clifton is more successful than ever as a novelist, and has just been elected president of PEN Britain. He learns of a writer in Russia whose memoir of life inside Stalin's palace has landed the writer in prison for life, his book taken off shelves and destroyed. Harry becomes obsessed with freeing the writer and telling his story. His wife Emma, meanwhile is the chair of Barringtons Shipping, having escaped a plot to destroy their company by bombing one of their luxury liners, and now the company is thriving.
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Cometh the Hour
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings
- Durée: 13 h et 4 min
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Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington, and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy and can see no way out of her financial problems until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Only Time Will Tell
- The Clifton Chronicles, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Roger Allam, Emilia Fox
- Durée: 12 h et 41 min
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From the internationally best-selling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war"....
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Excellent - Recommend
- Écrit par JKL le 2020-04-22
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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This Was a Man
- The Clifton Chronicles, Book 7
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Alex Jennings
- Durée: 12 h et 47 min
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This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife, Karin, from the cabinet secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus while his wife, Emma, completes her 10 years as chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job.
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Memorable Ending to Clifton Chronicles
- Écrit par Sylvie Lamoureux le 2021-10-19
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Hidden in Plain Sight
- A Detective William Warwick Novel
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): George Blagden
- Durée: 8 h et 13 min
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William Warwick has been promoted to detective sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Khalil Rashidi, a notorious drug dealer who operates his extensive network out of South London. As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from his school days, now a street dealer he convinces to turn informer; and financier Miles Faulkner, who makes a mistake that could finally see him put behind bars.
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hidden in plain sight
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-06-17
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Kane and Abel
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
- Durée: 19 h et 27 min
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William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless polish immigrant-born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world-are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred.
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Good read of a modern classic
- Écrit par Joel C LaRusic le 2018-09-13
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Nothing Ventured
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): George Blagden
- Durée: 9 h et 27 min
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William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister, Grace, he will join London’s Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of his first mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard’s arts and antiquities squad.
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A trashy legal fiction
- Écrit par Paul ledroit le 2020-07-05
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Turn a Blind Eye
- A Detective William Warwick Novel
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): George Blagden
- Durée: 9 h et 31 min
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Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. Along with detectives Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers.
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Not so great
- Écrit par Wendy Deroos le 2021-12-30
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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A Prisoner of Birth
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Roger Allam
- Durée: 16 h et 38 min
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One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his girlfriend up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister tipped to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation. A few hours later, Danny is arrested for murder and later is sentenced to 22 years in prison.
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Great book
- Écrit par ruth le 2020-08-30
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Shall We Tell the President?
- Kane & Abel, Book 3
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Lorelei King
- Durée: 7 h et 17 min
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Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life. The FBI investigates 1000s of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy - in less than one week?
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decent story.
- Écrit par Ryan Dueck le 2018-01-22
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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As the Crow Flies
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 20 h et 42 min
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When Charlie Trumper inherits the barrow his grandfather used to peddle fruit and vegetables in turn-of-the-century Whitechapel, England, he inherits his enterprising spirit as well. Charlie's deeply held ambition to raise himself out of the poverty of London's East End is destined to be realized, but there are many obstacles to overcome, including a tour of duty at the front in World War I, where he encounters the man who will become his lifelong enemy.
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Great story! Interesting narration!
- Écrit par Judy le 2020-01-14
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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Over My Dead Body
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): George Blagden
- Durée: 9 h et 40 min
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In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit - a cold-case squad - to catch the criminals nobody else can. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner - convicted of forgery and theft - was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? On a luxury liner en route to New York, the battle for power within of a wealthy dynasty is about to turn to murder.
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Quick moving.
- Écrit par Laura Corcoran le 2021-12-05
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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The Fourth Estate
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Aris
- Durée: 19 h et 33 min
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Lubji Hoch escapes from the Nazis, moves to Berlin and changes his name to Richard Armitage. After a successful career in the British Army, he takes over a struggling newspaper and with unrivalled ruthlessness begins building his media empire. Meanwhile, Keith Townsend, the son of a millionaire and Oxford educated, returns to Australia from London to take over his father's newspaper with similar ambitions. As both men move their quest for power to the world stage, they realise they are more than a match for one another's brilliance and ambition.
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the fourth estate
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-09-02
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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The Prodigal Daughter
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Lorelei King
- Durée: 14 h et 35 min
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With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel's daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more to be the first female president. Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world - and to build a future with the woman he loves. With Florentyna's ultimate goal only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering price of power as a titanic battle of betrayal and deception.
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Political drama !!!
- Écrit par Bumbles le 2022-03-23
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Heads You Win
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): Richard Armitage
- Durée: 15 h et 55 min
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From an early age, it is clear that Alexander Karpenko is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, Alexander and his mother will have to escape Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they have an irreversible choice: board a container ship bound for America or one bound for Great Britain. Alexander leaves the choice to a toss of a coin....
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Did not disappoint!
- Écrit par Daryl Behr le 2018-12-21
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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As the Crow Flies
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 20 h et 42 min
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Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps - his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell everything: 'The Biggest Barrow in the World'. Charlie's progress from the teeming streets of Whitechapel to the elegance of Chelsea Terrace is only a few miles as the crow flies.
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Great listen
- Écrit par Gail le 2022-07-06
Auteur(s): Jeffrey Archer
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New York Times best seller Jeffrey Archer continues his beloved Clifton Chronicle series as Harry and Emma finally begin building a happy life - but a dangerous family enemy is about to resurface....
Best Kept Secret opens a moment after the end of The Sins of the Father, with the resolution of the trial and the triumphant marriage of Harry Clifton and Elizabeth Barrington, finally uniting their family. Harry, now a best-selling novelist; Emma; their son, Sebastian; and orphaned Jessica make a new life for themselves, but all is not as happy and secure as it could be. Emma's brother, Giles, is engaged to a woman who may be more interested in Barrington's fortune and title than in a long and happy marriage. And Sebastian, though he is bright, isn't quite the hard worker that his father was at school, and finds a hard time resisting the temptations that his somewhat unsavory friends provide.
It all comes to a head when a new villain is uncovered, a face from the past with grudges against both Harry and Giles - Fisher, who tortured Harry at school and later took credit for Giles' heroics during the war. Fisher teams up with Giles' now ex-wife to wreak havoc on Giles' latest election as well as meddle with affairs inside Barringtons, while Harry and Emma must deal with a new scheme that Sebastian has unwittingly fallen into with a supposed friend. The drama continues for Harry Clifton and his family, bringing this mesmerizing saga into the 1960s.
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- DIANE
- 2013-05-19
Like a run-on sentence
What disappointed you about Best Kept Secret?
So many things disappointed me about this book. The ending was abrupt and left one thinking that the only thing Jeffrey Archer was thinking about when creating it, was selling his next book in the series. The characters were hard to believe and inconsistent, with very poor character development evident in everyone except perhaps Emma and Harry Clifton. The story wound its way without any rhyme or reason through various twists and turns that did not seem congruent with each other. I did not feel the book had any cohesiveness. This was a dramatic change from how I felt about all the other Jeffrey Archer books I've read to date.
Has Best Kept Secret turned you off from other books in this genre?
No, definitely not, since I've read enough of Mr. Archer's books to believe that the next one will be better and this one was just a "glitch" in the middle of his wonderful series.
What about Alex Jennings and Emilia Fox ’s performance did you like?
The voices were well done for the most part.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
It kept me reading, despite the very abrupt and inappropriate ending.
Any additional comments?
Will I buy the next book in the series? Of course. Jeffrey Archer has proved himself in his other masterpieces of mystery and I will of course, succumb. But a slap on the hand for Mr. Archer after reading The Best Kept Secret... The name is apt, since I was unable to figure out what the secret was.
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- laall
- 2013-05-08
Running out of material?
I love Archer's books. Thoroughly enjoyed the first two books in the Clifton Chronicles series....couldn't stop listening. But this one just didn't draw me in as much. Seemed "forced", like he was trying to make things happen when he really didn't have a good story. The cliff hanger didn't annoy me as much as some of the reviewers, because I expected it after the second book. I feel like it's easy to guess how it will turn out in the next book though. I'm not sure if I will buy the next two though as this one disappointed. Maybe he rushed it too much to get the next one in the series out?
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- cristina
- 2013-05-08
Plot without characters
I enjoyed the previous two books and was disappointed with this third installment. Unlike some of the other reviewers, however, my disappointment was not with the abrupt ending. It was with the novel itself. The story 'reads' like a plot outline -- with absolutely no character development whatsoever even by Jeffrey Archer's standards. So Character A, for example, will go from being a difficult child to a model adolescent with absolutely no explanation as to what brought the change about. Character B, besotted with his wife and willing to forsake all else at her request, is able to move on from his infatuation at the drop of a dime. Of course, the infatuation seems absurd from the start since Character C, the wife, is a cartoonish Cruella Deville without a single redeeming quality -- and the fact that Character B fell madly in love with her seems, well, out of character. In this novel, the characters are all lowercase and act however they have to at that moment in order to move The Plot along. And, believe me, The Plot moves...at dizzying speed and in all kinds of preposterous directions. It's almost like if Archer is thinking of what will happen next as he types! In fact, I am not even sure what "the Best Kept Secret" was meant to be since the story line regarding what I THOUGHT was "the secret" does not get resolved. In fact, it is not even mentioned in the last 50 or more pages of The Plot. (Could it be that the audible production did leave a section out?) If you are a Jeffrey Archer fan, by all means, download it. It's not deep, but it is kind-of entertaining. I am sure I will buy the next one.
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- Bradley
- 2013-10-11
Beyond disappointing...
What disappointed you about Best Kept Secret?
I've been a big fan of Archer and the Clifton Chronicles, but this book may have turned me off for good. Archer phoned this one in. The book simply seems rushed and thrown together. Some parts of the story were interesting, but it was predicable at every turn.
What could Jeffrey Archer have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
He could have actually put forth an effort to write a quality book.
What three words best describe Alex Jennings’s performance?
Jennings was fine.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Both disappointment and anger. Disappointment that a series I previously enjoyed was ruined and anger at how little effort was put forth (not to mention the fact that Archer and his publisher are attempting to force fans to pay five times for a single story).
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- Laurie
- 2013-05-09
Best Kept Secret still a secret
What would have made Best Kept Secret better?
I think Jeffrey should hire Christina from Somerville, MA as a proofreader an critic. I concur with her full assessment. Great job articulating the multitude of issues with this book. Jeffrey should be ashamed of himself to actually publish such a terrible piece of work. His has done, and is capable of, so much better than this. I would consider this a "trash novel". In addition, be aware that this is not the end of a trilogy.
Would you ever listen to anything by Jeffrey Archer again?
yes, but only after reading reviews very carefully.
Would you be willing to try another one of Alex Jennings and Emilia Fox ’s performances?
Yes,
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
It passed the time while I was doing housework!
Any additional comments?
Loyalty only goes so far. My respect for Mr. Archer is dwindling. I'd rather wait for a book of quality than have my time wasted. I used to have Mr. Archer on par with Ken Follett but I don't think he can redeem himself from this book.
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- S Lori Stone
- 2013-05-07
good, but recycled
What did you love best about Best Kept Secret?
It kept me interested. However, I was disappointed to discover some subplots are recycled from previous works. A little "Kane and Abel", a little "Prisoner of Birth", and one chapter was nearly verbatim from "Sons of Fortune". Can you plagiarize yourself?
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
I felt very invested in what happened to everyone in the story, kept me coming back whenever I had a moment to listen
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- P. Minor
- 2013-05-14
Very disappointing
I can't complain about the ending because I can't get that far. I'm half way through and just don't care enough about the characters to go on. Despite having gotten to know them all in the first two books, they now seem to have no personality and no "story". The plot is written like an outline with huge jumps between scenes and passes through time so quickly you wonder if you missed a part.
The first two books in the series were wonderful and I couldn't stop listening. This one I stopped after a couple of hours and came back to it weeks later. Now, I'm half way and know it's just not worth my time.
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- Joel
- 2013-05-13
Compelling Yet Needed More Plot
I absolutely loved the first two books in The Clifton Chronicles. It was a fresh feel for Jeffrey Archer and the characters within the series were easy to connect with.
Now in the third book in the series, it’s starting to feel a bit long in the tooth. Archer is one of the finest authors out there and he makes a plot that is thin to begin with still interesting to read. However when you compare Best Kept Secret to the first two books it’s a sad step in the wrong direction.
Outside of the very last few chapters of the book there wasn't a ton of compelling reasons to keep on with the series. It’s unfortunate but I think this book may prove that Archer stretched out this series a little longer then it needed to be.
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- Robert
- 2013-05-04
More,and more, and more of the same old, same old,
Would you try another book from Jeffrey Archer and/or Alex Jennings and Emilia Fox ?
I keep trying Mr Archer, everyone says he is a good author, so somewhere, someday, there must be a good book. But, not today and definitely not this book! The prior books were poor and predictable; this one is rubbish. The plot is, charitably, stupid, inconsistent and totally unbelievable. The reader is good, but it would take a miraculous performance to turn this drivel into anything approaching an average story.
What was most disappointing about Jeffrey Archer’s story?
Totally predictable and yet completely unbelievable.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Not a single redeeming feature. Probably the worst audio book I have ever heard.
Any additional comments?
I assume there are more episodes to this painful series - don't buy this, or them!
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- Paul
- 2013-05-24
Was this ghost written? (Serious Disappointment)
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Jeffrey Archer could have written a novel to follow the previous two excellent works in the series.
It is hard for me to believe that Jeffrey Archer wrote this book. It has virtually none of the elements that made the original book so captivating. Throughout the first two books, the characters were fully developed, and I cared about them - and what happened to them. In this 3rd installment, the characters are flat and undeveloped.
The plot in the first two installments was complex, and I loved the method employed of telling the story from alternating perspectives. There remains in this third installment, none of the allure of that original technique.
The Giles character - you have to be kidding me! He's really going to forsake all familial ties and a lifelong friendship for this cartoon of a character that has no redeeming qualities except for perhaps a pretty face? Where is the complexity and story telling art in that.?
Someone mentioned previously that Jeffrey should hire someone like Christina from Somerville, MA as a proofreader and critic. I also agree with all the critical points that Christina raised. She did a good job articulating the multitude of flaws with this book.
Unfortunately, I was left with the impression that if the writer of this 3rd installment was indeed Jeffrey Archer, then he has either lost interest and passion for the story, or else... I hate to think that there might be something wrong with him. Was this ghost written?
Would you ever listen to anything by Jeffrey Archer again?
I pre-ordered this book. I will never do that again. (fool me once...)
In future, I will wait to see what others have to say before another book is purchased from this author.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
The narrator (Alex Jennings) is good. But I am several hours into the book, and I have yet to hear a passage from Emilia Fox. I am not rating the narration higher because I really loved the juxtaposition of these two narrators in the previous books. If the intent is to have both narrators for this book, then something is missing. If the intent is just to have one narrator, then consider me spoiled by the previous audiobooks in this series.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment.
Any additional comments?
Please restore this series to some measure of what the first two installments promised.
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