The Eleventh Commandment
The gripping spy thriller from international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer
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Publisher Description
'If there were a Nobel Prize for storyelling, Archer would win' - The Daily Telegraph
From the Oval Office to a Russian Mafia boss's luxurious hideaway outside St Petersburg, The Eleventh Commandment is a gripping spy thriller set at an addictive pace. From the bestselling author of Nothing Ventured, Jeffrey Archer.
Connor Fitzgerald is the professional's professional. Holder of the Medal of Honour. Devoted family man. The CIA's most deadly weapon.
But for twenty-eight years, Connor has been leading a double life. And, only days from his retirement, he comes across an enemy even he cannot handle.
The enemy is his own boss.
And she has only one purpose: to destroy him.
Meanwhile, the United States is faced with an equally formidable foe: a new Russian President, determined to force a military confrontation between the two superpowers.
At high pace and with ingenious twists, intertwined with a moving love story, this is the bestselling writer at the peak of his page-turning powers.
*Jeffrey Archer’s This Was A Man was an instant Sunday Times HB bestseller when it published in 2016
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
From the first line, former British M.P. Archer (The Fourth Estate, etc.) navigates a nonstop, rocketing ride. Middle-aged Connor Fitzgerald is a happily married man, decorated veteran and devoted father; he's also an "NOC," a "non-official cover officer" for the CIA specializing in assassinations. The killing of a Colombian drug lord leaves Connor out of sync with the Democratic president's policy, so the director of the CIA, a woman, sets Connor up to take the fall in a fake assassination of the leading candidate for the Russian presidency, an unreconstructed Stalinist. Connor (aided by an ex-CIA deputy director whose life he once saved) gets out of a St. Petersburg jail and falls into the hands of the Russian Mafia. Wheels spin within wheels until the slam-bang climax during the new Russian president's visit to Washington. Some plot details, including the final twist, are a tad hokey, and Connor keeps his much-touted charisma under wraps, yet Archer sweeps us along (and even finds time to write himself into the plot as London's mayor, a position he's seeking in real life). The only boo-boo here is Archer's unwitting revivification of flamboyant Redskins owner and Northern Virginia tycoon Jack Kent Cooke (though he was a character). In any case, readers won't mind the occasional giddiness: this isn't Tolstoy, it's fun. Simultaneous Harper audio.
Customer Reviews
The Eleventh Commandment
Execellent tale.