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Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful What You Wish For, March 2014
by Jeffrey Archer

St. Martin's Press
Featuring: Harry Clifton; Emma Clifton; Ross Buchanan
400 pages
ISBN: 1250034485
EAN: ?978125003448
Kindle: B00FCQQ1IW
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"1960'S England is full of international intrigue, the richer they are the harder they fall."

Fresh Fiction Review

Be Careful What You Wish For
Jeffrey Archer

Reviewed by Shellie Surles
Posted June 8, 2014

Fiction

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR starts in 1957 telling the story of the Clifton and Barrington families. The Barrington family is a very successful shipping family. Harry Clifton is a bestselling author married to Emma Barrington, who is currently head of the family. Don Pedro Martinez tries to kill Sabastian Barrington, Harry and Emma's son, and when his own son is accidently killed in the process; he then swears revenge upon the family. This starts a series of events that involve the business world of international shipping, art and even fish paste. It tells the stories of their lives, loves, business and losses. It's full of intrigue, manipulation and hard fought battles in business and life.

Jeffery Archer is a masterful writer and does not let you put down with BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. The characters are enjoyable to read and story is a look in to life and business in 1950-1960's England. Though this is volume four of the Clifton Chronicles you can read it without reading the previous books. You will however need to read the next book in the series because this one leaves you with quite the cliffhanger. Don't miss BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR or the next in the series.

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SUMMARY

Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?

When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham.

Back in London, Harry and Emma’s adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham, Jessica’s future mother-in-law, has a visit from an old friend, Lady Virginia Fenwick, who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice.

Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated, and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastle’s first decision is who to support to become the next chairman of the board: Emma Clifton or Major Alex Fisher? And with that decision, the story takes yet another twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Be Careful What You Wish For showcases the master storyteller’s talent as never before – when the Clifton and Barrington families march forward into the sixties, in this epic tale of love, revenge, ambition and betrayal.


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