Shall We Tell The President?

audio cassette

English language

Published Jan. 12, 2000 by Trafalgar Square Computer & Audio.

ISBN:: 978-0-00-105019-8

(6 reviews)

After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane's has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life.

The FBI investigates thousands of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy―in less than one week? The race to save the first woman president begins now…

34 editions

ospalh reviewed Shall we tell the President? by Jeffrey Archer

Review of 'Shall we tell the President?' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This is for the President Ted Kennedy original version.

It’s a good thriller.
A Greek illegal immigrant overheard plans of a senator to have the president shot, and ends up dead, together with everybody he talked to, except our heroic g-man, who than has one week to stop the plan.

The things that are apparently left as anachronisms in the updated version work OK for a book set in 1983. Then you had to use payphones a lot, and FBI agents probably did walk around with their pockets full of small change.

Surely no feminist manifesto, but less misogynistic than you’d expect from a novel of the era. Although there are two pointless homophobic remarks in there.