Author(s): Jeffrey Archer

Contemporary

 Don't get mean, get even... One million dollars - that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men. They band together and shadow him from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot and the hallowed lawns of Oxford. Their plan is simple: to sting Harvey for exactly what he took them - not a penny more not a penny less.

Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? The time, 1993, and the place is Washington DC. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate.

 PRAISE FOR JEFFREY ARCHER "One of the top ten storytellers in the world." Los Angeles Times "Cunning plots, silken style ... Archer plays a cat-and-mouse game with the reader." The New York Times "Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages." The Boston Globe