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    The Clifton Chronicles - 3: Best Kept Secret
    Paths of glory
    Bleed for Me
    Seul l'avenir le dira
    • Seul l'avenir le dira

      • 552pages
      • 20 heures de lecture

      Harry Clifton, fils d’un docker et d’une serveuse de Bristol, né en 1920, est persuadé que son père, Arthur, est mort en héros à la guerre. Alors que tout le dispose à suivre les traces de ses parents, sa voix et son intelligence exceptionnelles lui ouvrent les portes d’un collège réservé aux enfants de la haute société anglaise. C’est là qu’il fait connaissance de Giles, le fils de la famille Barrington, propriétaire d’une grande compagnie maritime. Giles devient son ami. Harry gravit un à un les échelons de la réussite sociale et tombe amoureux de la sœur de Giles. Mais en voulant s’unir à une Barrington, Harry précipite sans le savoir de terribles révélations. Quel sera le prix à payer ? Seul l’avenir le dira. Le premier volet d’une passionnante saga romanesque qui nous conduit des docks de Bristol des Années folles aux navires marchands pris dans la tourmente de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

      Seul l'avenir le dira
      4,3
    • Bleed for Me

      • 418pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is the best friend of Joe's daughter, and he has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes. Against the advice of the police, he launches his own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead him to a predatory schoolteacher, a conspiracy of silence and a race-hate trial that is captivating the nation.

      Bleed for Me
      4,0
    • Paths of glory

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      This real-life mountaineering mystery recounts the story of Britain's George Mallory and his attempt to scale Mt. Everest.

      Paths of glory
      3,9
    • The third novel in Jeffrey Archer’s compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles 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 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? Penulis: Jeffrey Archer Penerbit: St Martins Press Halaman: 373

      The Clifton Chronicles - 3: Best Kept Secret
      3,8