Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals (UK 2022) From the Publisher: Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals. Pan, ISBN: 9781529060027 (December, 2022), 496 p., £9.99.
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Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals (UK 2013) From the Publisher: Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals. Only one can triumph. Pan, ISBN: 9781447221814 (March, 2013), 480 p., £7.99.
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Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals (USA 2004) From the Publisher: From strangers to rivals, four men embark on a journey for the highest stakes of all-the keys to No. 10 Downing Street. Unfolding over three decades, their honor will be tested, their loyalties betrayed, and their love of family and country challenged. But in a game where there is a first among equals, only one can triumph. Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312997124 (May, 2004), 496 p., $7.99.
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Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals (USA 1985) From the Publisher: Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671504681 (August, 1985), 415 p., $4.50.
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Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals (UK 1985) From the Publisher: Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals. Coronet Books, ISBN: 0340363703 (June, 1985), 466 p., £2.75.
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Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals (USA 1984) From the Publisher: The actors are three fiercely ambitious young men -- utterly different from one another, but bound together by their singleminded pursuit of the same goal. The field of battle is Britain's Parliament, where competition is waged with an exquisite politeness that only masks its ferocity. And the ultimate prize is the highest office in the land. From the time the men enter Parliament, it is a three-way race to the day -- three decades later-- when one will be called to Buckingham Palace to accept the office of Prime Minister. Raymond Gould is the scholarship student born above a butcher shop, fired by ambition from the time he is twelve, sure of his path. His only mistake: the luckless shotgun marriage that has tied him down to a small-town wife. His only doubt: whether he can risk compounding his error when he meets the woman he truly loves -- Charles Hampton is Raymond's opposite. With his beautiful thoroughbred wife, his patrician back-ground, his family bank, he is literally to the manor born. But his rivals underestimate both the hidden troubles in Charles's polished life and the lengths to which he will go to surmount them -- Simon Kerslake is the consummate statesman, willing to take on the riskiest job in England in the name of Queen and Country. He's also that rarity among politicians -- a husband and father whose wife is his equal, with a career of her own. In fact, he's perfect -- until the banks start looking into his finances -- Through all the permutations of mutual affection and enmity, honor and deceit, these three men are joined by the women in their lives: Elizabeth Kerslake, who fears sacrificing her medical career if she is to support Simon's goals -- and who could never have anticipated the much greater sacrifice that is asked of her: Joyce Gould, patient, understanding, forgiving, who knows much more than her husband guesses about politics -- and about the politics of marriage: Fiona Hampton, the ideal politician's wife... shrewed enough to advance her husbands interests, while at the same time looking after her own. As all these lifes cross (and double-cross) in the race for power, the reader comes to care about all three men. But only one can win. Jeffrey Archer, who was himself the youngest Member of Parliament in the 1960s, here combines his own background with his greatest gifts as a novelist. First Among Equals presents a cast of undelible characters in a tale of headlong tension, played out against the dazzling backdrops of the only country in the world where power and pageantry are inextricably linked. With his new novel, the author confirms what millions of readers already know: Jeffrey Archer is first among storytellers. Jeffrey Archer: First Among Equals. A Novel. Linden Press / Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 0671504061 (July, 1984), 415 p., $16.95.
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