The life of Jeffrey archer it is associated with politics and scandal. And yet he has also ended up being a notable bestseller writer in that confusing arrival at the goal of success in a mix between his popularity and his undeniable literary quality. With his vital baggage, peppered by this dubious political task, it is not surprising that suspense is finally one of his genres of reference, or at least in the one that has given more profusion in its literary aspect.
However Archer began with that natural search of every writer, proposing novels of a very diverse nature that, thanks to the support of critics and readers, facilitated that final encounter of the author with the genre in which he moves like a fish in water, especially when it comes to thrillers that border on the judicial, the political or the economic. Because Archer knows that power deals are scary, and can lead to the worst of the human being to preserve status or to hide secrets ...
Archer wrote even from his cell, like Bécquer, only that in his case it was a prison cell in which he ended up back in 2001. And although recent cases of inmate writers such as Curtis dawkins, sentenced to life imprisonment, becomes a paradigm of the humanist reconversion, what Archer was more about taking advantage of that dead time to continue exploiting a facet that would end up elevating him in the world bestseller literature.
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The prodigal daughter
Let's start almost at the beginning. Back in 1984, in the process of awakening the writer and involved in his particular political and judicial skirmishes, Archer invented this story with links to the social tragedy par excellence, the one that was born with the Romeo and Juliet of Shakespeare, spread with the Capulets and Montagues and found many echoes in novels like this one.
The particularity of this novel is its historical location in an interwar period in Europe, prolific for emigration to the United States and Florentina's projection towards the first female presidency of the United States.
A sum of knots that turn the story into an intense, almost epic narrative. Directly linked to the previous novel in the Kane and Abel saga, it requires an introduction to what preceded Florence and represents a precious investigation into the opportunities of the new world that the United States represented for Europeans seeking their future.
The impostor
The aforementioned literary references to great classics are not by chance. For those of us who devour the extensive and intense history of the Count of Monte Cristo de DumasFinding ourselves with this story recovers that epic inspiration that transforms the future of the protagonist into a vital adventure without any possible comparison.
The sum of adversities are often reproduced as that sinister attack on probability. And then only the strongest can end up facing their destiny with some guarantee. Edmundo Dantés is reincarnated in a Danny Cartwritght as punished for a malicious plan as his predecessor.
And the truth is that it is a pleasure to enjoy a modern revenge served with intelligence and adjusted to the times. At times very much in the style of the last steps of Dufresne, that snobby guy from Cadena Perpetua who beat us all ...
The path of glory
The great peaks of our world will always be a claim for every adventurous spirit that seeks in the most difficult challenges, and in physical suffering towards self-improvement, its modus vivendi.
The curious thing about the matter is that a writer like Archer found in one of the most mythical mountaineers in history, Mallory, the foundation for a narrative that largely departs from its natural evolution to the most cosmopolitan thriller.
The book aims at a fictionalized biography. Halfway between the more real Mallory who grew up as a child with his tendency towards danger and the controversy surrounding achieving the summit of Everest on which he finally lost his life, Archer opened a new avenue for the most fascinating assumptions in around a projection on the great myth of Mallory and its big questions.
