Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles) (The Clifton Chronicles, 1)

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But after he is expelled he gets caught up in an international incident that could put his life in jeopardy .

Set in London in 1988 as Royal fever sweeps the nation, New Scotland Yard are on high alert to protect the most famous family on earth. With such responsibility, comes great pressure and so Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent to investigate the team. Since his debut in 1976, Jeffrey Archer has published gripping thrillers including the Clifton Chronicles and William Warwick series. Over dinner, Papa didn’t leave me in any doubt how keen he was that I should go to Eton and I nearly had a change of heart at the last moment, but I had given my word to Percy Bridport, and felt I couldn’t let him down.When Detective Sergeant William Warwick is reassigned to the drug squad his first case is to investigate notorious drug lord the Viper. I didn’t enjoy the journey back to Bristol, and felt even worse when I got home and my mother asked me the same question. This is a story about friendship, about the way different events are important to different people, and about how the actions of others - that we don't even know about - can affect so many aspects of our lives. I normally am a little skeptical when people rave like crazy in a review, but I suppose I am now joining their ranks.

Ambitious and addictive, Only Time Will Tell is the first novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's the Clifton Chronicles begins the epic tale of Harry Clifton, a working-class boy from the docks of Bristol. From the internationally bestselling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph.

If it hadn’t been for a personal intervention by the Frob, I might have suffered the same fate at Bristol Grammar. Deep things to think about, deep character portrayal, lots of historical details are not what you will find served in this book. Like I don't know how many times the readers were told that Harry Clifton is smart and poor , smart and poor , I mean we get it in first 5 times but if you keep mentioning it for 50 times , I don't know. In the gripping third instalment of the William Warwick series, Detective Inspector Warwick must go undercover and expose corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. But past encounters with an ex are never far away, and when Harry befriends Giles Barrington, his meddlesome, fraudulent father, Hugo, does his best to deny what happened between Harry’s mother and himself all those years ago.

While things are going well for Harry, Hugo Barrington, Harry's best friend(Giles) father always showed contempt towards Harry while they his son and Harry both studied I school and college. While Giles Barrington decides whether to give up politics for love and try to rescue Karin from behind the Iron Curtain, Harry continues campaigning for the release of Anatoly Babakov. Meanwhile in Geneva, a millionaire art collector was pronounced dead more than two months ago, but his lawyer continues to represent a dead client . The book has the flavour of Follett's Century series and Rutherfurd's multi-generational novels, where the reader must pay attention not only to the story, but also the collection of characters and their nuances. This introductory novel in Archer’s ambitious series The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler’s Germany.We spent the night at the Swann Arms, the same hotel in which he had stayed over twenty years before when he took the entrance exam. Whenever I questioned my mother about his death, she didn’t say any more than that he’d served with the Royal Gloucestershire Regiment and had been killed fighting on the Western Front only days before the Armistice was signed.

You know in fact very early on who the central character's father is, but what keeps you reading is to discover how the author is going to weave together all the details to make an entertaining story that makes sense. This is my first Jeffrey Archer read thought I bought Mighthier than the sword first and realised its the 5th of the volume. In the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer explores themes of love, loss and betrayal as he takes the reader on an exhilarating journey from the back alleys of Bristol to the teeming streets of New York City and the Gulags of Stalinist Russia. He reminds me of someone I once knew actually, just in a more extreme way, with much more money at his disposal!

It is not poorly written and will satisfy those readers who love series, love adventure stories, love plot-oriented books and love solving a puzzle. Jeffrey Archer is one of the world’s bestselling authors, with sales of over 275 million copies in 97 countries, and is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (twenty times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). A moment later my father got up and left the room, without even saying goodbye to Giles and his guests.