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by: Jeffrey Archer
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780312353728
ISBN: 0312353723
Label: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: March 07, 2006
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Sales Rank: 143616
Studio: St. Martin's Press
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Why was an elegant lady brutally murdered the night before 9/11?
Why was a successful New York banker not surprised to receive a woman’s left ear in the morning mail?
Why did a top Manhattan lawyer work only for one client, but never charge a fee?
Why did a young woman with a bright career steal a priceless Van Gogh painting?
Why was an Olympic gymnast paid a million dollars an assignment when she didn’t have a bank account?
Why was an honors graduate working as a temporary secretary after inheriting a fortune?
Why was an English Countess ready to kill the banker, the lawyer and the gymnast even if it meant spending the rest of her life in jail?
Why was a Japanese steel magnate happy to hand over $50,000,000 to a woman he had only met once?
Why was a senior FBI agent trying to work out the connection between these eight apparently innocent individuals?
All these questions are answered in Jeffrey Archer’s latest novel, False Impression, but not before a breathtaking journey of twists and turns that will take readers from New York to London to Bucharest and on to Tokyo, and finally a sleepy English village, where the mystery of Van Gogh’s last painting will finally be resolved.
And only then will readers discover that Van Gogh’s Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear has a secret of its own that acts as the final twist in this unforgettable yarn.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Misdirection, but compelling plot
By definition, a thriller is supposed to take the reader by surprise, plotting suspense with conflict. Archer achieves these objectives with aplomb, detailing the world of art auction and intrigue. The twists, however, aren't completely unexpected if you've seen art heist films like "To Catch a Thief" or "Legal Eagles." "False Impression" is compelling, notching up the stakes with every twist. However, some of the details seemed mis-directions, like the timing of the novel beginning on 9/10/2001, ... Read More
Rating:  - No stone left unturned in this thriller
This is a superb classic thriller that offers unsurpassed insight as well as foresight in human passions and foibles in this jittery post 9/11 era. His description of bad acts and bad thoughts are so real, palpable and gripping albeit a bit unreadable at times and yet his noble spirit of statesmanship shines through as I read passages like [he] is straight from "the Bronx to ... Brooks Brothers" attire and room "blazing with light" and finally at the end of the story in a banter where the conversation ... Read More
Rating: - Not a masterpiece, but still a favorable 'Impression'.
Archer mixes intrigue in the art world with the aftermath of 9/11 in this caper. The main plot is interesting, although pacing and character development, two of Archer's trademarks, aren't quite what they have been in previous works. The Romanian background of the main characters makes for a bit of a change from more typical Russian or German characters in stories like this. However, as noted, many of the characters are a bit superficial, and the 'Romanian gymnast' angle seems outdated.
The romance ... Read More
Rating: - Okay book.
I have the paperback and on the front cover there is a quote saying' "A worthy successor to the Da Vinci Code." So im thinking, 'hey this should be pretty interesting to see how he uses Van Gogh.' The more into the book however, the more I began to notice it is nothing at all like the Da Vinci code, which is fine by me but the book is pretty bland. There is no killer motive behind the crime besides the fact that Fenston, the villain, likes artwork, and there are no real twists that keep you hanging when you ... Read More
Rating: - Fair At Best
I was hoping for a little more from Jeffrey Archer after the long layoff. He's written a few of my favorite novels, but I was kind of indifferent to this one. The pacing is a little slow and it never really pulled me in.
There's nothing wrong it, but it is definitely not in the same category as K&A or The Fourth Estate.
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