False Impression - Hardcover

Jeffrey Archer was educated at Oxford University. He has served five years in Britain's House of Commons, fourteen years in the House of Lords and two in Her Majesty's prisons, which spawned three volumes of highly acclaimed Prison Diaries. All of his novels and short story collections - including Kane and Abel, Honor Among Thieves, and Sons of Fortune - have been international bestsellers, selling over 120 million copies worldwide. Archer is married with two children and lives in London and Cambridge.

"Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages."
--The Boston Globe

"A storyteller in the class of Alexander Dumas Unsurpassed skill making the reader wonder intensely what will happen next."
--The Washington Post

"There isn't a better story-teller alive."
--Larry King

"Archer is a master entertainer."
--Time Magazine

"Cunning plots, silken style...Archer plays a cat-and-mouse game with the reader."
--The New York Times

"Archer is a terrific story-teller, and meets the reader's ultimate tests - to want to turn the page to see what happens next."
--Sunday Times, London

"Probably the greatest story-teller alive."
--Mail on Sunday

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.