Twelve Red Herrings
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The bestselling author Jeffrey Archer once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies with this collection, Twelve Red Herrings.
Archer, the internationally bestselling author of Honor Among Thieves and Kane & Abel, serves up this inventive collection of a dozen short stories -- with a twist. Cleverly styled, with richly drawn characters and ingeniously plotted story lines, each of the twelve pieces ends with a delightfully unexpected turn of events.
An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive....A female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle....A young artist gets the biggest break of her career....A restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration....An escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein's death list pays an involuntary visit to his homeland. In each tale, human beings are given an opportunity to seize, a crucial problem to solve, or a danger to avoid. How will they react? How would you? Capping off the collection are two additional rewards. In the final story, Archer offers a choice of four endings. And buried in each story is another diversion -- a red herring which Archer challenges his readers to uncover.
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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