Paths of Glory
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International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with a triumphant historical novel, Paths of Glory.
Paths of Glory, is the story of such a man—George Mallory. Born in 1886, he was a brilliant student who became part of the Bloomsbury Group at Cambridge in the early twentieth century and served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I. After the war, he married, had three children, and would have spent the rest of his life as a schoolteacher, but for his love of mountain climbing.
Mallory once told a reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, "because it is there." On his third try in 1924, at age thirty-seven, he was last seen four hundred feet from the top. His body was found in 1999, and it remains a mystery whether he and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, ever reached the summit.
In fact, not until you've turned the last page of Archer's extraordinary novel will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to that list of legends, while another name would have to be removed.
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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