To Cut a Long Story Short - by Jeffrey Archer (Paperback)

About the Book

"New York Times"-bestselling author Archer presents 14 riveting tales of elaborate confidence tricks, political chicanery, immoral behavior, and dangerously illicit affairs, rendered with his breathtaking trademark twists. Available in a tall Premium Edition.

Book Synopsis

An astonishing short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, To Cut a Long Story Short.

A dying man doesn't know which of his relations to leave his fortune to, only to find out who really cares about him. A chance overheard conversation changes the course of an entire man's life. A woman savors every word of a letter from her lover while her husband reads over her shoulder. A criminal on the loose confesses that he is desperate to be caught. A widowed mother learns the cold truth about her second husband at the dawn of her third marriage. A pencil, the cruelest of the artist's tools, leaves nothing to chance...

From the Back Cover

An enthralling collection of stories--with unforgettable characters, ingenious plotting, and surprise endings--from internatioanl bestselling author

Jeffrey Archer

A dying man doesn't know which of his relations to leave his fortune to, only to find out who really cares about him. A chance overheard conversation changes the course of an entire man's life. A woman savors every word of a letter from her lover while her husband reads over her shoulder.A criminal on the loose confesses that he is desperate to be caught.A widowed mother learns the cold truth about her second husband at the dawn of her third marriage. A pencil, the cruellest of the artist's tools, leaves nothing to chance...

"[In this] collection of fourteen cleverly twisting tales, Archer maintains his obsession with surprise endings."--Publishers Weekly

"Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages." --The Boston Globe

Review Quotes

"Will keep your blood pressure high and you'll risk back injury just from being kept on the edge of your seat...I guarantee that anyone who takes this book from the shelves will not be able to put it down." --The Spectator (UK) on The Sins of the Father

"[Archer] is a master of fiction...Jeffrey Archer has the strange gift denied to many who think themselves more serious novelists. He can tell a story, and he does so with such conviction, such appealing naivety, that you suspend disbelief, and read happily on." --The Scotsman (UK) on The Sins of the Father

" Archer can plot a story." --Kirkus Reviews on The Sins of the Father

About the Author

JEFFREY ARCHER was educated at Oxford University. He has served five years in Britain's House of Commons and fourteen years in the House of Lords. All of his novels and short story collections-including Sins of the Father, And Thereby Hangs a Tale, A Prisoner of Birth, and Kane & Abel-have been international bestsellers. Archer is married with two sons and lives in London and Cambridge.