Be Careful What You Wish For (The Clifton Chronicles) (The Clifton Chronicles, 4)

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Jeffrey Archer is one of the world’s bestselling authors, with sales of over 275 million copies in 97 countries, and is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (twenty times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). Neste volume, Jeffrey Archer dá continuidade à saga das famílias Clifton e Barrington, mas, na minha opinião este livro prendeu-se mais com os meandros dos negócios e da política e menos com as suas personagens.

Another component that stands out is Jessica’s lineage as her adopted parents Harry and Emma have not made her aware of who her parents were which leads to complications. Both sides of the family are elated, until Clive’s mother meets Lady Virginia Fenwick, who tells her that Jessica is adopted.I do wonder, though, how long these chronicles can continue without Archer's readers getting very cross.

Be Careful What You Wish For is the fourth novel in the Clifton Chronicles, set primarily in England and spanning the years 1957 to 1964. In the next novel in the series BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, Archer’s plot revolves around the Barrington family and the machinations of Don Pedro Martinez, an international criminal who blames Harry Clifton for the death of his son, and Alex Fisher who attended boarding school with Giles Barrington and continues to seek revenge against Giles and his family dating back to their days in boarding school and the loss of a recent parliamentary election.Archer's constant development of ideas set against historical events proves seamless, though he uses said events only in passing, unlike Follett or Rutherfurd in their respective multi-generational series.

This thoroughly engaging old-school, multigenerational saga harks back to the work of Malcolm Macdonald, Belva Plain, and Irwin Shaw. Owen nodded, and the mortician pulled back the sheet to reveal a scarred and battered face that Emma recognized immediately. Jeffrey is published in 114 countries and more than 47 languages, with more than 750,000 5* reviews with international sales passing 275 million copies. When Harry checked out of the Pierre Hotel forty minutes later, he found Harold’s chauffeur standing on the sidewalk waiting to drive him to Idlewild airport. No family saga would be complete without a villain, and this book has a good one, a well-drawn and believable character whose motivations are understandable.Jeffrey is married with two sons and three grandchildren, and lives in London, Cambridge and Majorca. Simon Wiesenthal makes a brief appearance, along with the IRA, and I was also introduced to the British food product fish paste.