Cometh the Hour
Book Six Of the Clifton Chronicles
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4.4 • 573 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the previous novels - all of which hit the New York Times bestseller list - showcases Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists.
It opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy?
Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot.
Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings.
Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Six deep into Jeffrey Archer’s pulsating saga, Cometh the Hour is the most electrifying book of the Clifton Chronicles to date. The bestselling novelist’s storytelling is so vivid and outrageous that readers new to the series will enjoy this penultimate installment, and readers already invested in the Clifton and Barrington families will be enthralled. Set in the ‘70s, the book finds Harry Clifton fighting to liberate a fellow author from a Siberian gulag while Giles Barrington puts his political future on the line to save the love of his life from behind the Iron Curtain. The two friends—and the series’ rich supporting cast—are soon rocked by a suicide and several trademark Archer twists.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This sixth, and penultimate, addition to the Clifton Chronicles series (after Mightier Than the Sword) continues with the Cliftons and the Barringtons in the 1970s their family fortunes and travails, love affairs, political dramas, business mishaps and espionage entanglements. The story begins with a libel trial and a suicide note, bringing embarrassment and consequences for Emma and Harry Clifton, Lady Virginia Fenwick, and Sir Giles Barrington. Sir Giles, in love with an East German translator, risks everything to bring her over the Berlin Wall and to England, but is she smitten or a spy? Meanwhile, Lady Virginia, Sir Giles's ex-wife, is becoming desperate after having been financially cut off by her father. She victimizes a wealthy, gullible American in an outrageous scam, but the victim's wife is on to her. Emma's husband, best-selling author Harry Clifton, uses his photographic memory and oratory skills to help the world recognize a Nobel Prize-winning, imprisoned Russian author. Emma and Harry's son, Sebastian, still has a messy love life which now turns shockingly violent. Archer continues his storytelling magic to create characters of spellbinding substance, and readers can count on his surprising twists and shocking conclusion. Here, just when the end seems too tidy, Archer provides a killer cliffhanger.
Customer Reviews
Perfect story telling !
A masterpiece of tangled lives losses and characters you will not easily let go of ..
Mightier Than the Sword
Great read
What a Book!
I was not able to put the book down. Enjoyed every word, every page. Good mixture of love, respect, intrigue. Can not wait for the next and final book!