The Eleventh Commandment
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Publisher Description
One of New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's most dazzling thrillers, The Eleventh Commandment.
Connor Fitzgerald has an impressive resume. Military hero. Devoted family man. Servant of his country—as an assassin. Just as he's about to put his twenty-eight-year career at the CIA behind him, he comes up against the most dangerous enemy he's ever faced: His own boss, Helen Dexter.
As Director of the CIA, Dexter has always been the one to hold the strings. But when her status is threatened by a greater power, her only hope for survival is to destroy Fitzgerald. Meanwhile, the country braces itself as tensions with a new Russian leader reach the boiling point…and it's up to Fitzgerald to pull off his most daring mission yet: To save the world. Even if that means risking everything—including his own life—in the process.
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
11th Commandment
BEWARE!! While this is good read this e-book is a reprint of an earlier work of the same title (1998). If you are along time Jeffrey Archer fan you may have already read it.
Must read
Thought Clifton chronicles & Kane & Abel were dope til I read this.1 of the best books I've ever read.
The Eleventh Commandment
I have been a Jeffrey Archer fan for many years, from "Not A Penny More" & "Quiver Full of Arrows" etc. I have read every book written. This, however, will be my last. Once I read the acknowledgement to a Hillary Clinton staffer I knew this would be written from a perspective the antithesis of my own. The overt negative references to "Republicans" was offensive to me and, in light of America today and the low esteem my country is held in directly owing to the current Democrat President, it is laughable. It is unfortunate that Mr. Archer did not take the time or have interest enough to research the damage done by the Democratic Party we now have in America. It will take many years for a Republican President to repair the almost irreparable damage done.