JEFFREY ARCHER TWELVE RED HERRINGS Here, from the world's greatest story-teller, Jeffrey Archer, are twelve ingeniously plotted stories that display his renowned ability for the unpredictable, but wholly sat-isfying, twist. Even more inventive than his previous best-selling short story collections, Twelve Red Herrings contains a dozen startling tales, each of which makes use of misleading clues to surprise the reader. You'll read about a woman who fools her husband and her lover on the same day; a leading lawyer's attempt to prove his client is not blind; an honored guest whose expeс-tations are something more than the red carpet; a young painter who finds an un-likely way to call attention to herself; and a woman whose casual ride into the country becomes such a gauntlet of terror that by the last page you'll be shaking with fear. In each of these stories, human beings are put under pressure-how do they react when they have an opportunity to seize, a crucial problem to solve, a danger to avoid?

ISBN: 9780060179441