"Not a penny more, not a penny less" was the first Jeffrey Archer that i read and till date none of his book has been able to reach its level. Kane & Abel was good and successful, but then he started repeating the same old "Two rich guys fighting it out" story in every other book of his, including the last one, Sons of fortune (which by the way was crass).. So i guess one day out of the blue, he decides i will try to be a bit 'hatke'! and maybe during that time he was reading the sidney sheldon series and so Mr. Archer in the process of being different now has a female protogonist, but then he didn't want to be blamed of plagarism (after having already spent time in prison for perjury!), he decides to have make the villian a female too..
Well the story uses 9/11 as the background although the plot is not even remotely related to the incident, with Anna being fired by Fenston Finances for helping out one of their clients and she being the protogonist (meaning an extremely lucky woman....coz she always manages to escape the FBI and the professional killer!!!) manages to alert the client and save the one thing that Mr. Fenston is actually after.. the self potrait of Van Gogh... and not suprisingly ends up falling in love with the FBI agent.
Might make a good thriller movie but as a book... totally avoidable
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