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The latest collection from the master storyteller. The fourteen - all new - stories show Jeffrey Archer''s great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tail. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the railway tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty''s diplomatic service. One of the most intriguing describes a woman who only appears to her lover every six years. And ...