A Prisoner of Birth [Paperback]

'My Perfect Sunday'
--Sunday Telegraph

'This milieu suits him perfectly . . . The British John Grisham.'

'Funny how being banged up in jail can bring the best out of you.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'...the book draws vividly on Archer's first-hand experiences of prison life.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Archer creates characters that jump out from the page and stay with you long after you close the book.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Jeffrey Archer's new novel represents something of a comeback...a powerful tale.'
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'Page-turner with a balance of likeable characters and unscrupulous villains.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Morality tale worth its salt.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Archer excels with his numerous courtroom scenes - and other scenes involving professionals such as Swiss bankers.'
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'A powerful new novel of deception, hatred and revenge.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The new blockbuster from one of the bestselling authors of all time

Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss’s daughter, and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge University. After leaving university he becomes a criminal barrister and is soon tipped to be the youngest Queen’s Counsel of his generation. Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craig is also celebrating - his 30th birthday, along with a select group of university chums. Although the two young men don’t meet, their lives will never be the same again. For, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, while the other ends up as the Prosecution’s chief witness in an Old Bailey trial.

If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. And when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat and the youngest partner in an established firm’s history, who is going to believe his side of the story? Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and is sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. But everyone has underestimated Danny’s determination to seek revenge and Beth’s relentless quest to win justice . . .

Jeffrey Archer, whose bestselling novels span from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less to Kane & Abel and The Eleventh Commandment, has sold over 135 million books throughout the world. The author is married with two children.