If the first thing which comes to your mind is, ‘first sons first brothers first victim first criminal unnecessary feud’, you are already on the route to begin reading this atypically unorthodox and to some extent idiosyncratic novel. Publication Details: ISBN13: 9780312995058 | Pan Macmillan Books I thought it was time to give him another go.Genre: Dramatic Thriller, Historical Fiction
Meanwhile, Mum (those of you who read my reviews will know of her) by coincidence, had a copy of Archer’s False Impression which she had ‘quite enjoyed’. Now, some thirty plus years later, I have just heard about his latest offering (published November 2018), Heads You Win, said to be a match for Kane and Abel, and I hope to enjoy it when I get hold of a paperback copy (to match the rest on the shelf, of course). My plaintive, ‘But I meant you to read Kane and Abel’ went ignored, and for me, so did Archer for quite some time thereafter – we’d both been (unfairly) put in our place. ‘Don’t ever recommend a book to me again,’ she said and to give her her due, she never asked. Easy reading, bit of fluff and certainly not to Mary’s literary standards.
I mentioned Archer and she took me up on my suggestion and read the somewhat trite Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, followed by a short story collection, A Quiver Full of Arrows.
This lady asked me to recommend an author - she needed something new to get her teeth into. There was no point arguing, I knew I had already lost the battle before she returned every shot with infinite precision. I was also put in my place when my boss - a marvellous woman with a very astute brain who would frequently listen intently, allowing you – well, me! - to unwittingly dig a trench six feet deep before tilting her head to one side and saying, ‘Do you really think so?’. I went on to read several more of his books but few matched the quality of that first novel.
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