Be careful what you wish for

387 pages

English language

Published Dec. 28, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-250-03448-9
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OCLC Number:
857879257

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"Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner. In London, Harry and Emma's daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Jessica's future mother-in-law has a visit from a friend who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice. Then Cedric Hardcastle, a Yorkshireman who no …

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reviewed Be careful what you wish for by Jeffrey Archer (The Clifton chronicles -- v. 4)

Review of 'Be careful what you wish for' on 'Goodreads'

Based on some of the other reviews here, I think you either enjoy Archer's books or are annoyed by them (which I think begs the question of why bother reading something you know you're not going to enjoy?) I'm in the camp that thinks these books are enjoyable. They're silly and simple in some ways but the ultimate in easy reading. I like to call these Danielle Steel for men. It's all people being catty to each other, villains vowing to destroy the heroes, Mary Sue/Stu territory, but I find it fun. This is clearly not literature but I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

My only issue with this installment in the Clifton saga is after Jessica dies, and they have the meeting with Cedric about finally banding together to bring down Don Pedro, Giles suggests Bob the Fish Paste King to be the outsider and says he …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • History
  • Families
  • FICTION / Suspense
  • FICTION / Sagas
  • Social classes

Places

  • United States
  • England