As the Crow Flies
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Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century.
Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow. That day comes suddenly when his grandfather dies leaving him the floundering business. With the help of Becky Salmon, an enterprising young woman, Charlie sets out to make a name for himself as "The Honest Trader". But the brutal onset of World War I takes Charlie far from home and into the path of a dangerous enemy whose legacy of evil follows Charlie and his family for generations.
Jeffrey Archer
In his fifty years as a novelist, Jeffrey Archer became one of the world’s bestselling authors, with sales of over 300 million copies in 119 countries and 49 languages. He was the only author to have ever had a number one bestseller in fiction, non-fiction and short stories. Over his extraordinary career he spent fourteen years and six months on the Sunday Times bestseller list, and five and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list.
A member of the House of Lords, the author was married to Dame Mary Archer, Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, and they have two sons, two granddaughters and three grandsons. He split his time between London, Grantchester in Cambridge, and Mallorca, where he wrote the first draft of each new novel.
Jeffrey died in 2026 on the eve of publication of his final novel, Adam & Eve.
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