Everybody is so stiff upper lip English even the American and French characters manage that peculiar English affectation.

A text adventure game adaption based on the book was developed and published by Domark, and released in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Atari XL, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. Jeffrey Archer τον γνώρισα από τη σειρά "Τα χρονικά των Κλίφτον". 7 βιβλία σε audio books, που με διασκέδασαν αφάνταστα, στην αρχή της χρονιάς. Harvey couldn’t believe it. How easy it would be to use such a licence to create an impression of a vast enterprise! For a few hundred dollars he could be alongside such names as Shell, BP, Total, Gulf and Occidental.While it's obvious that the events at Ascot needed to be fictionalized to serve the story, it was also jolting that the "Race of the Century" received none of the detail given to an inconsequential first-round women's match at Wimbledon. Harvey / Rosalie's race certainly benefitted from the play-by-play; perhaps Harvey's preoccupation with his own horse precluded him from noticing any other aspects of the race, but it still felt odd that the historical aspects of the 1975 race were ignored. (It is difficult to believe that the race had not taken place while Archer was writing this section given his correct game-by-game detail of the Kathy May (Fritz) / King match) He was, in the words of H. H. Munro, a man whose looks made it possible for women to forgive any other trifling inadequacies.” This is Jeffrey Archer’s first book. And what a great book it is! I have read it during my teenage years and decided to re-read again. With nothing left to lose, four strangers are about to come together—each expert in their own field. Their plan: find Harvey, shadow him, trap him, and penny-for-penny, destroy him. From the luxurious casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot to the bustling streets of Wall Street to fashionable London galleries, their own ingenious game has begun. Harvey Matcalfe , the king of successful financial con's , has conned a million dollar with empty promises of oil bonanza and instant wealth. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey conned the wrong people. They unite and device a plan of revenge.

Ah, those Milton Friedman eighties, replete in a very wet summer with a bumper crop of towering fungi - the grabbers, takers and brutal levellers of the Me Generation. Roger’s only ambition in life was to become an officer in the Navy, but after graduating from Dartmouth he had had to return to the family business because of his father’s ill-health. He had only been with the firm a few months when his father died. Roger would have liked to have sold Sharpley & Son to the first bidder, but his father had made a codicil to his will to the effect that if the firm were sold before Roger’s fortieth birthday (that being the last day one can enlist for the US Navy), the money gained from the sale would be divided equally among his other relatives. Primul capitol incepe cu regula de aur de pe Wall Street: "A face un milion de dolari in mod legal a fost intotdeauna greu. A face un milion de dolari in mod ilegal a fost intotdeauna ceva mai usor. A pastra milionul dupa ce l-ai facut este probabil cel mai dificil dintre toate". Eu as aduga la asta ca este important si cu care din ele incepi. Romanul il are in prim plan pe Harvey Metcalfe, un rechin de pe Wall Street care a pornit de jos si care si-a murdarit mainile in toate felurile pentru a ajunge foarte sus. Un tip fara scrupule de o inteligenta iesita din comun care nu stie sa piarda si care joaca dupa sloganul: inseala, loveste, pleaca. Dupa ce cucereste tot ce se poate in America, Harvey hotareste sa dea un tun si in Anglia infiintand o societate care se ocupa cu exploatarea petrolului din Marea Nordului. Gaseste un tanar entuziast pe care-l pacaleste cu un raport geologic masluit si care la randul lui gaseste alti naivi care sa investeasca in actiunile companiei. In momentul in care se epuizeaza vanzarea actiunilor Harvey lichideaza compania si pretul actiunilor se prabuseste, investitorii ramanand in faliment.This is way better than his recent novels. It does not try too hard to sound very clever. There are no punchlines in every line, but humor sprinkled throughout. Look, I read it to the end so it couldn’t have been too bad but I’m really glad that Jeffery Archer has, with the passage of time, improved greatly as an author.