Be Careful What You Wish For

ByJeffrey Archer

Release Date: 2014-03-11
Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

Score: 4

From 1,002 Ratings

Description

Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?

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, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham.

Back in London, Harry and Emma’s adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham, Jessica’s future mother-in-law, has a visit from an old friend, Lady Virginia Fenwick, who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice.

Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated, and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastle’s first decision is who to support to become the next chairman of the board: Emma Clifton or Major Alex Fisher? And with that decision, the story takes yet another twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Be Careful What You Wish For showcases the master storyteller’s talent as never before – when the Clifton and Barrington families march forward into the sixties, in this epic tale of love, revenge, ambition and betrayal.

Reviews

Don’t make any plans ..
5
By EdgySay
What a great series . I envy you to be reading this for the first time
Be Careful What You Wish For
3
By heypea
Good story and build up. Terrible ending left hanging. Needs closure.
Be Careful What You wish for
5
By Complete Plumbing
Kept me interested the entire time
Be careful what you wish for.
1
By Tess blue
Hated the ending that wasn't an ending.
Not so good
4
By asdfg-/:;(12345
The author was tired. He repeated again the trick of the wrong identity in two bodies, one who dies and one that survives. Not good. And he make things move slowly on purpose just to have more pages. I finished because I have read the two previous and couldn't abandon "the family".
Be careful what you asked for
5
By S#%tBird#1
Loved it, waiting for the next book!
Vow! What a book!
5
By Dolly's JoJi
Loved it. Could not keep it down . Want to read the next one.
Terrible Way To End The Series
1
By JazzKeysMan
I’ve been a pretty solid Jeffrey Archer fan. I’ve recommended his books to many friends. He seems to have run out of gas on this one ended the ending was terrible. When you invest in four books you expect something a bit more substantial at the end. It made me sorry I ever picked the last book up, honestly. I could have written a better last half of this book.
Be Careful What You Wish For
2
By Peg1gy
OK, I did not know this is a series. The first 2/3 of the book is so-so but the last 1/3 is good but then there is not an end. But I am invited to buy another book in a year! Forget it!
Be Careful What you Wish For
2
By Don Wert
Another ridiculous non-ending cliffhanger. Have a little confidence that folks will buy your books for more than to find out what appended in these bored, contrived, shamelessly commercial endings. Done with these books nd this author.