St. Martin's Press
March 2015
On Sale: February 24, 2015
Featuring: Giles Barrington; Emma Clifton
ISBN: 1250034515 EAN: 9781250034519 Kindle: B00MELK918 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A bomb goes off, but how many passengers on the MV
Buckingham have lost their lives? You will find out only if
you read the opening chapter of Mightier than the Sword.
When Harry arrives in New York, his publisher Harold
Guinzberg tells him he has been elected as the next
president of English PEN, which will give him the
opportunity to launch a campaign for the release of a fellow
author, Anatoly Babakov, who is languishing in a Russian
Gulag in Siberia. His crime, writing a book Uncle Joe, which
gives an insight into what it was like to work for Josef
Stalin. So determined is he to see Babakov released, Harry
puts his own life in danger.
Emma Clifton, now Chairman of Barrington Shipping, is having
to face the repercussions of the IRA bombing her ship. Some
board members feel she should resign while others, including
Sebastian Clifton, newly elected to the board, are
determined to see she remains as Chairman.
Giles Barrington is now a Minister of the Crown, and looks
set for high office, but a trip to East Germany does not end
as a diplomatic success, and once again Giles' political
career is thrown off balance by none other than Major Alex
Fisher. Fisher decides to stand against Giles at the
forthcoming general election. But this time who wins?
Sebastian Clifton asks his girlfriend Samantha to marry him.
She happily accepts, but then later changes her mind after
she discovers what Seb has been up to behind her back.
The book ends with two court trials: one at the high court
in London, a libel case pitting Emma Clifton against Lady
Virginia Fenwick; while another, a show trial, takes place
in Russia after Harry has been arrested as a spy. Thus
continues book five of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey
Archer's most accomplished work to date, with all the
trademark twists and turns that have made him one of the
most successful authors in the world.