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Author: Jeffrey Archer

ISBN:  13-978-0-312-37929-2:  10:0-312-37929-3

In A Prisoner of Birth Jeffrey Archer offers up another multilayered thriller that includes a bevy of crimes emanating from a wrongful murder conviction. Among the transgressions are: the escape from Belmarsh prison that is a high-security establishment in southeast London, identity theft, stealing a very valuable stamp collection and its subsequent sale, perjury and forgery.

The story unfolds with a Prologue where we read about Danny Cartwrights’s marriage proposal to his girlfriend Beth Wilson. To celebrate, the couple decide to meet Beth’s brother Bernie, who was also Danny’s oldest friend, at a local wine bar to celebrate.  It is here where the trio encounter four obnoxious individuals, an attorney, Spencer Craig, a well-known actor, Larry Davenport, an investment dealer, Gerald Payne, and an aristocrat, Toby Mortimer. The four, who seem to be inebriated, begin to spout vicious remarks at Danny, Beth and Bernie, particularly at Beth who they call a slut.

Eventually, Danny, Beth and Bernie decide to leave the bar and they wind up at the back entrance where a fight ensues wherein Danny and Bernie take on two members of the quartet. Beth witnesses what is happening and heeds her brother’s advice to grab a cab and as she enters the cabs she tells the driver that Danny and Bernie will be along shortly, whereupon the cab driver retorts,  “I don’t think it is a taxi they’ll be needing, luv. If they were my friends, I’d be phoning for an ambulance.”

After this prologue, Archer then goes onto divide his tale into six books: Trial, where Danny is falsely convicted of murdering his best friend Bernie, Prison, where Danny befriends two prisoners who will have quite an influence on his future life, Freedom, where Danny escapes prison impersonating one of the prisoners, Revenge, where Danny becomes very creative in settling scores with the guilty parties who were all instrumental in contributing to his unlawful incarceration, Redemption and Judgment. 

Archer once again shows himself to be gifted as well as being very creative.

From the very first pages the story- telling clutches the reader and never lets go.

He has written a carefully contrived thriller with great momentum and some very interesting characters which no doubt can be attributed to the two years he served in Her Majesty’s prisons as well as his five years as a member of the British Parliament. Some of his previous novels as Prison Diaries, Kane and Abel, and False Impression have been international bestsellers and it would not surprise me if A Prisoner of Birth likewise reaches this plateau.

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