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Paths of Glory is a novel by English author Jeffrey Archer based on the story of George Mallory who died attempting to climb Everest in the 1920s. It was published by St. Martin’s Press on 3 March 2009. It fictionally supports the claims that George Mallory, an Englishman, was the first to conquer Mount Everest — before Sir Edmund Hillary.

Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Percy Fawcett, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Sir Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong are among such individuals.But what if one man had such a dream, and when he’d achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition?

Paths of Glory is the story of such a man. But not until you’ve turned the last page of this extraordinary novel, will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to this list of legends, because if he were, another name would have to be removed.

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Others books by Archer, Jeffrey
There are 15 ebooks by this Author
Archer, Jeffrey - This Was a Man (Clifton Chronicles, 7) - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
This Was a Man is the captivating final instalment of the Clifton Chronicles, a series of seven novels that has topped the bestseller lists around the world, and enhanced Jeffrey Archer's reputation as a master storyteller. This (More) Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job.
Archer, Jeffrey - Cometh the Hour (Clifton Chronicles, 6) - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
The sixth in The Clifton Chronicles series Cometh The Hour 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 (More) 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 now 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.
Archer, Jeffrey - Mightier Than the Sword (Clifton Chronicles, 5) - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
The fifth novel in the epic Clifton Chronicles series Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV Buckingham’s maiden voyage across the Atlantic – but how many passengers lose their lives? When Harry (More) Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who’s imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov’s crime? Writing a book called Uncle Joe, a devastating insight into what it was like to work for Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book published, that he puts his own life in danger.
Archer, Jeffrey - El undécimo mandamiento - Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: ePub
«La historia de un hombre que murió dos veces». Para un agente de la CIA, el undécimo mandamiento prescribe no dejarse atrapar y, en caso de ser atrapado, no confesar. Connor Fitzgerald ha transgredido el undécimo mandamiento. (More) Veintiocho años en la CIA iban a concluir en una fría prisión de San Petersburgo. Sin duda, es víctima de su pecado, pero también de una infame conspiración, en la que están implicados la directora de la Agencia, Helen Dexter, y, de forma indirecta, el presidente de Estados Unidos. La alta política, la capacidad de sacrificio y la ambición de poder son, en esta novela, el motor de las peores motivaciones humanas.
Archer, Jeffrey - La senda de la gloria - Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: ePub
Ochenta y cuatro años después, la ascensión de George Mallory al Everest y su muerte permanecen rodeadas de misterio. El gran escritor británico Jeffrey Archer logra convertir la historia del mítico escalador George Mallory en una (More) narración trepidante, digna de las mejores novelas de suspense. En su exhaustiva recreación ficcionada, Archer se remonta a la infancia del alpinista, obsesionado ya por los desafíos extremos. Después vendrán sus proezas de juventud, como la ascensión a la basílica de San Marcos como prueba de su amor por Ruth Turner, o su intento de escalar la Torre Eiffel. Pero donde el libro cobra mayor intensidad es en el malogrado ascenso del Everest, emocionante y rodeado de suspense, pues todavía hay numerosos interrogantes sin resolver para los que el autor propone algunas inquietantes respuestas.
Archer, Jeffrey - El impostor - Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: ePub
Danny Cartwright, un joven de clase obrera, está a punto de casarse. Sin embargo, la noche que acude a un renombrado club del centro de Londres para celebrar su compromiso, un terrible suceso cambia su destino: en una pelea (More) callejera el hermano de su prometida es acuchillado y él es injustamente acusado de asesinato. Tras un juicio lleno de irregularidades y víctima de un abogado defensor inexperto, Danny es condenado a veinte años de cárcel por homicidio. El plácido futuro que él imaginaba con su mujer, su familia y su nuevo empleo se esfuma; su vida ahora es la prisión. Por fortuna, encuentra el apoyo de sus compañeros de celda para soportar el encierro y no tarda en vislumbrar la posibilidad de un arriesgado engaño que le devuelva la libertad y le permita vengarse del verdadero culpable.
Archer, Jeffrey - A Prisoner of Birth - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. And when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular (More) actor, an aristocrat and the youngest partner in an established firm’s history, who is going to believe his side of the story? Danny is sentenced to 22 years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. But Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny’s determination to seek revenge and Beth’s relentless quest to win justice, which forces all four protagonists to fight for their lives. So begins A Prisoner of Birth, Jeffrey Archer’s most powerful novel since Kane and Abel, with a cast of characters who will remain with you long after you’ve turned the last page.
Archer, Jeffrey - Paths of Glory - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
Paths of Glory is a novel by English author Jeffrey Archer based on the story of George Mallory who died attempting to climb Everest in the 1920s. It was published by St. Martin’s Press on 3 March 2009. It fictionally supports the (More) claims that George Mallory, an Englishman, was the first to conquer Mount Everest — before Sir Edmund Hillary. Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Percy Fawcett, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Sir Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong are among such individuals.But what if one man had such a dream, and when he’d achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition? Paths of Glory is the story of such a man. But not until you’ve turned the last page of this extraordinary novel, will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to this list of legends, because if he were, another name would have to be removed.
Archer, Jeffrey - Shall We Tell The President? - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane's has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take (More) her life. The FBI investigates thousands of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy―in less than one week? The race to save the first woman president begins now…
Archer, Jeffrey - The Eleventh Commandment - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
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 (More) 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.
Archer, Jeffrey - Sólo el tiempo lo dirá (Crónicas de Clifton, 1) - Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: ePub
La fascinante epopeya de la familia Clifton a lo largo del siglo XX. Una saga que ha hecho historia. Un pasado secreto. Un destino por escribir. Toda una vida para conocer la verdad. «Me dijeron que a mi padre lo mataron en la (More) guerra». Así arranca, en 1919, en los muelles de Bristol, la épica singladura de Harry Clifton. El destino parece depararle un futuro miserable: casi no ha conocido a su padre, y su madre trabaja de sol a sol para sacar adelante la familia que completan un abuelo sordo y un hermano alcohólico. Pero Harry tiene un as en la manga: una prodigiosa voz que le permitirá entrar en una exclusiva escuela y cambiar su destino para descubrir su verdadero origen. ¿Qué precio pagará Harry para conocer toda la verdad? Solo el tiempo lo dirá.
Archer, Jeffrey - Be Careful What You Wish For (Clifton Chronicles, 4) - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment in Jeffrey Archer’s The Clifton Chronicles, opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a (More) fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham. Back in London, Harry and Emma’s adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham, Jessica’s future mother-in-law, has a visit from an old friend, Lady Virginia Fenwick, who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice. Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated, and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastle’s first decision is who to support to become the next chairman of the board: Emma Clifton or Major Alex Fisher? And with that decision, the story takes yet another twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Archer, Jeffrey - Best Kept Secret (Clifton Chronicles, 3) - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor’s deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry (More) returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father’s office on the night he was killed.When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma’s son, who ultimately influences his uncle’s fate. In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family march onto the page. After Sebastian is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger?
Archer, Jeffrey - The Sins of the Father (Clifton Chronicles, 2) - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
New York, 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks, a top Manhattan lawyer, offers his services for nothing, penniless Tom has little choice but to accept (More) his assurance of a lighter sentence. After Tom is tried, found guilty and sentenced, Jelks disappears, and the only way for him to prove his innocence would be to reveal his true identity - something that he has sworn never to do in order to protect the woman he loves. Meanwhile, the young woman in question travels to New York, leaving their son behind in England, having decided she'll do whatever it takes to find the man she was to marry - unwilling to believe that he died at sea. The only proof she has is a letter. A letter that has remained unopened on a mantelpiece in Bristol for over a year. Jeffrey Archer continues the saga of The Clifton Chronicles with this epic novel, The Sins of the Father. Family loyalties are stretched to their limits as secrets unravel, and the story moves from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan.
Archer, Jeffrey - Only Time Will Tell (Clifton Chronicles, 1) - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author.The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, (More) but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry discovers the truth about how his father really died and if, in fact, he even was his father.Only Time Will Tell takes a cast of memorable characters from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take his place at Oxford, or join the fight against Hitler’s Germany.In Jeffrey Archer’s masterful hands, you will be taken on a journey that you won’t want to end, even after you turn the last page of this unforgettable yarn, because you will be faced with a dilemma that neither you, nor Harry Clifton could ever have anticipated.
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