Keep flipping Honour Among Thieves, page after page, and should be finished by today.
Jeffrey Archer is a maestro of story telling. Take Honour Among Thieves as and example, Archer put all the prevailing characters by then in the plot. Saddam, Clinton, Rabin etc. Though sort of faded out while read today, the tension among the rivalries is still hovering.
It just could not help oneself to praise Archer's imagination. By using the Declaration of Independence as the central piece of document for competition, parties located in both ends of the spectrum are involved. Groups of different interests weaved together, and a complex web of connection was formed. Bill, the master of counterfeit, helped Mafia to craft the fake Declaration of Independence. Later, by relying on the expertise of Bill, the US government sought another fake copy from Bill for the recovery of the genuine one. So, anybody's value is situationally dependence. Ethnics is something to speak than practice.
With many other details professionally added in the story, reading Archer's work is amusing. Is the word "British" misspelled as "Brittish"? Would Mossad, the intelligence agency of Israel, works without US's acknowledgement?
Anyway, fictions of this sort are good for time killing.
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