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As The Crow Flies
"As The Crow Flies" is the saga of Charlie Trumper whom, after his grandfather's death, takes over running of his fruit cart in the streets of London during the first few years of the 20th century. The book follows his progress from the small cart, to owning his first shop after his service in World War 1, and his further quest to fulfill his dream of owning the "biggest barrow in the world". However, it is not an easy process and there are many obstacl...
Kane and Abel
On the same day, on opposite sides of the globe, two boys are born. William Kane is the son of a wealthy Boston banking conglomerate. "Abel" Rosnovski (who takes the name when he immigrates to the United States) is the orphaned child of a Polish peasant. William's life is shaped by wealth, political connections, and an Ivy League education. Abel's will is honed as he escapes Russian imprisonment and fights his way to the United States for a better li...
Matter of Honour
An unemployed ex-military man inherits a sealed letter in his father's will. It is an old letter that his father, at the insistance of his wife, had never opened. His father's letter to him instructed him that he was only to open the letter if a matter of family honour came up. This excellent book takes the reader over many countries in Europe as foreign agents try to take his inheritence from him. The item in question is worth far more than monetary...
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Henryk Metelski changes his name to Harvey Metcalfe. Wealthy enough at the start of the book, he is a person who would cheat people to earn more. The story starts with Prospecta Oil Company Shares. David Kesler a Harvard graduate working for Prospecta Oil in all innocence made four people invest in Prospecta Oil Shares. David was told that the company had made a fantastic strike in the North Sea and when they announce it the shares of the company woul...

Archer booklist

Shall We Tell The President
Nick Stames, a FBI agent, comes to know about a plot to assasinate the president of United States. Very soon he along with one of his sincere juniors drowns mysteriously into the river.The other junior Mark Andrews, starts his search with the knowledge of the time of strike. He discovers that one of the senators is the master of the game and soon finds out Senator Dexter, the father of his love is on the check list........
Sons of Fortune
Nat and Fletcher are twins. But at birth they are separated. Another woman giving birth at the same time, loses yet a third child. The nanny, not wishing her mistress to go through the trauma a third time, switches the dead baby for one of the twins. So Mrs. Cartwright raises Nat, not knowing that her other twin did not die but went on to live in the relatively well-to-do home of the Davenports. Though they live in different parts of Connecticut...
The Eleventh Commandment
Assassian Connor Fritzgerald works under the umbrella of the CIA. His family and friends don't know of his double life, so when days before he's due to retire he goes on "One Last Business Trip" which goes wrong, his family is inadvertantly thrown into questioning what he really does do for a living. At the same time, Connor is being sent on a bogus mission, set up by the director of the CIA, presumably with the permission of the White House. In actua...
The Prodigal Daughter
The novel begins with the birth of Florentyna Rosnovski and continues with her life as she comes of age, attends college, and begins political life in a quest for the presidency. ...