Book description
Connor Fitzgerald is the professional's professional. Holder of the
Medal of Honour. Devoted family man. The CIA's most deadly weapon. But
for twenty-eight years, he has been leading a double life. And only days
from his retirement, he comes across an enemy even he cannot handle. The
enemy is his own boss. And she has only one purpose: to destroy him.
Meanwhile, the United States is faced with an equally formidable foe: a
new Russian President, determined to force a military confrontation
between the two superpowers.
Ranging from the Oval Office in the White House to a Russian Mafia
boss's luxurious hideaway outside St Petersburg, The Eleventh Commandment
sets new standards in contemporary thriller writing. Jeffrey Archer
scoops his readers up in the first paragraph, and doesn't let them go
until the last. The pace, the ingenuity, the twists, intertwined with a
moving love story, show Britain's bestselling writer at the peak of his
page-turning powers. Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories
include Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
, Kane and Abel
and A Twist in the Tale
, has topped the bestseller lists around the world, with sales of over
210 million copies. Paths of Glory
, his most recent novel, was a global number one bestseller and remained
on the Sunday Times
bestseller list for ten weeks. The author is married with two children,
and lives in London and Cambridge. www. jeffreyarcher. com
