MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD

When Harry arrives in New York, his publisher Harold Guinzberg tells
him he has been elected as the next president of English PEN, which
will give him the opportunity to launch a campaign for the release of a
fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who is languishing in a Russian Gulag in
Siberia. His crime, writing a book Uncle Joe, which gives an insight
into what it was like to work for Josef Stalin. So determined is he to
see Babakov released, Harry puts his own life in danger.

Emma Clifton, now Chairman of Barrington Shipping, is having to face the repercussions of the IRA bombing her ship.

Some board members feel she should resign while others, including
Sebastian Clifton, newly elected to the board, are determined to see she
remains as Chairman.

Giles Barrington is now a Minister of the
Crown, and looks set for high office, but a trip to East Germany does
not end as a diplomatic success, and once again Giles' political career
is thrown off balance by none other than Major Alex Fisher. Fisher
decides to stand against Giles at the forthcoming general election. But
this time who wins?

Sebastian Clifton asks his girlfriend Samantha
to marry him. She happily accepts, but then later changes her mind
after she discovers what Seb has been up to behind her back.

The
book ends with two court trials: one at the high court in London, a
libel case pitting Emma Clifton against Lady Virginia Fenwick; while
another, a show trial, takes place in Russia after Harry has been
arrested as a spy. Thus continues book five of the Clifton Chronicles,
Jeffrey Archer's most accomplished work to date, with all the trademark
twists and turns that have made him one of the most successful authors
in the world.