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Book Review By Rashmi Srinivas
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer

With a deviousness born of long practice, Harvey Metcalfe, a Boston based self-made guru of deceit, stays behind the scenes and runs a stock scam involving some bogus petroleum shares at the London Stock Exchange. After the scam folds, Harvey happily goes away a million dollars richer and leaves behind four stupified men, the unwitting principal buyers, teetering on the edge of financial ruin.

Stephen Bradley, a visiting American professor at Oxford, chooses to get even rather than get mad and brings together the other three investors comprising of Harley Street's Dr. Robin Oakley, gallery owner Jean-Pierre Lamanns and Lord James Brigsley. They decide to turn the tables on Harvey. Combining their individual abilities and expertise, they each come up a scheme to relieve Harvey of the exact amount he robbed them of.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
descript. of violence and chases - 10 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 %
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets:
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here? - catching con-artist

Main Character
Gender - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 60's-90's
Profession/status:
Motive of antagonist - money/treasure
The antagonists are: - big business leader(s)
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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