27 June 2011

Book Review: Shall we tell the President? By Jeffrey Archer


This book dates from 1977 and is in the last in a trilogy of novels with Kane and Abel and the Prodigal Daughter, the President version is the last one.

The story focuses on Abel's daughter Florentyna Kane and when she became the first woman President of the United States (are you watching Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton?) following the death of the incumbent President.

The FBI are aware of a plot on her life but only five people know of this plot, of those five there is only one survivor who knows all the details. He is a top FBI agent called Mark Andrews. However Andrews has a dilemma as he knows which senator is involved in plotting to kill her but he needs to find the assassin and he has six days to do this. But does he tell the President now or not?

I read this book quite some time ago, but Archer is always a good story teller and I remember turning the pages to this one pretty fast.

8/10 from me.

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