Mightier than the Sword (The Clifton Chronicles, 5)

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Thus continues book five of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer's most accomplished work to date, with all the trademark twists and turns that have made him one of the most successful authors in the world. Macready believed its opening night success was "unequivocal"; Queen Victoria attended a performance on 14 March. This series is so consistently good and the more I read the more I can truly imagine the characters. The phrase has the ring of proverb about it, and most proverbs don’t have an author: they’re anonymous nuggets of wisdom handed down from generation to generation, part of an oral rather than written tradition.

Whilst I've enjoyed some of Jeffrey Archer's earlier books, I think he has strung this series out too long. However, a moment of weakness while in East Germany costs him everything, and leaves the door wide open for his long-time nemesis, Major Alex Fisher, to challenge him for his seat during General Election.We also have a new plotline in the quest to publish a biography of Stalin that is now behind the iron Curtain and once again Mr. It is obvious they still see each other quite often and you KNOW if that is the case they would be better then ever best friends still and this friendship is longer part of the series. It isn't just the story I liked, but I loved the writing and have really come to know the characters. But although Lytton’s wording appears to have been original, the sentiment was not: the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Proverbs lists several precursors to this famous statement, which, although worded differently, convey the same idea. You fall in love with the characters of Emma Clifton, Cedric Hardcastle and Bob Bingham and hate the characters of Lady Fenwick and Alex Fisher.

The writing was still solid and the characters as realistic and well thought as always, but I just didn't love this one. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (nineteen times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). The speaker states that beneath the rules of great leaders, kings, and courts, communication or written words are more effective a tool than direct force. For those who haven't read that book, you may want to look away and finish that book before reading this review. The Wikipedia page for the phrase lists some other examples, including some from Hamlet and Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy.Once again, Giles’s political career is thrown off balance by none other than his old adversary, Major Alex Fisher, who once again stands against him at the election.