Jeffery Archer pens new bestseller: A Prisoner of Birth

BACK WITH A BANG: Jeffrey Archer stormed back onto bestseller lists in India and worldwide, with his latest book, A Prisoner of Birth.

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New Delhi: Jeffrey Archer stormed back onto bestseller lists in India and worldwide, with his latest book, A Prisoner of Birth.

A Prisoner of Birth tells the story of Danny Cartwright, a young mechanic from East End who's convicted of a crime he did not commit. Convicted because the system is often stacked against those who are marginalised.

A little melodrama, shocking injustice, a drive for revenge and the system stacked against you, are all the key ingredients for a potboiler. And it packs quite a punch, at 531 pages.

The plot is loosely inspired by The Count of Monte Cristo and peppered with tales from Archer's time in Prison, back in 2001.

However, Archer's bounced back after that fall from grace, and the result is that some 17 drafts and 1000 hours of writing, a thriller that's perfect for a lazy weekend, or an overnight trip.

You can't not like the main character Cartwright or his mentor in prison Nicholas Moncrieff or any of the good guys.

And of course the bad guys are just not worth liking at all - weak character, lacking in integrity, and born with the proverbial silver spoon.

A Prisoner of Birth is a feel-good book, that is a breezy read, but also touching in bits and the best part is that you can't predict exactly how things will turn out, but you know that things will be right in the end. That's the type of tale Jeffrey Archer spins.