Feb 20, 2003 03:34 PM
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(Updated Feb 20, 2003 03:39 PM)
Jeffrey Archer has come up trumps again!!!!!
With his latest novel, Sons Of Fortune, he unleashes his entire spectrum of writing prowess to keep the reader enthralled from the first page till the last.
I've been a big Jeffrey Archer fan ever since I read Kane & Abel. Through the years, The Prodigal Daughter & Shall we tell the President? just endeared him to me.The Short stories Collection as well as the Eleventh Commandment just raised the bar of expectation.It is indeed no surprise that with his latest saga of Twins separated at birth by a quirk of fate, he is indeed the master of taut well written novels!!!!
On the face of it, Sons of Fortune, seems like a straight lift from one of our good ol' Bollywood Pot boilers…. Twins separated at Birth & inevitably meeting on the last pages of the book. But what sets this one different from all his earlier works is the manner in which the two key protagonists Fletcher & Nathaniel a.k.a Nat go through an entire circle of life without having met each other….atleast not till the end!!!!
Coincidences include the two of them falling for the same girl as well as running for the Mayor's post in the US of A!!!!
Moving away from his usual crime plots, he comes away with a well scripted tightly written novel.though the end is a little too long & could have been shortened. The American election system is in full flow making you go back to The Prodigal Daughter!!!!
In typical Amar Akbar Antony style, one of the brothers donates blood to the other making you smile a little at how much of it is Bollywood inspired!!!!
Without revealing too much of the plot, suffice it to say that this book is for all you Jeffrey Archer fans!!!!
Enjoy the Book!!!!!!
