From Library Journal
In 1966, Adam Scott, an unemployed British ex-army officer with an uncertain future, attends the reading of his disgraced father's will. Part of his inheritance is a letter detailing the events of Hermann Goering's suicide and two unopened letters from the Nazi general giving him access to a Swiss bank vault and the valuable Russian icon it contains. However, a veritable state secret is concealed in the painting and the KGB and the CIA both want it before the expiry of a crucial deadline. Scott's perilous journey across Europe to the questionable safety of England is by plane, car, foot, bus, ambulance, van, and ferry as he stays one step ahead of death with the assistance of farmers, salesmen, racing cyclists, hoodlums, and an entire orchestra. An epic chase thriller tidily concluded with a series of neat twists. Highly recommended. Literary Guild main selection. John North, L.R.C., Ryerson Polytechnical Inst., Toronto
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"Sizzles along at a pace that would peel the paint off a spaceship." -The New York Times Book Review
"Jeffrey Archer has written the equivalent of an Alfred Hitchcock movie." -Baltimore Sun
"A wild, no-hold-barred slam-bang, pell-mell international thriller." -Buffalo News
More Praise for Jeffrey Archer:
"A master at mixing power, politics, and profit into fiction" -Entertainment Weekly
"Archer is a master entertainer." -Time Magazine
"One of the top ten storytellers in the world" -Los Angeles Times
"Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages." -Boston Globe
"Cunning plots, silken style...Archer plays a cat-and-mouse game with the reader." -The New York Times
"A storyteller in the class of Alexander Dumas...Unsurpassed skill...making the reader wonder intensely what will happen next." -Washington Post