a prisoner of birth by jeffrey archer

Title: A Prisoner Of Birth
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Pages: 616
Rating: 5/5

Summary (Goodreads):

Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his fianceé up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen’s Counsel of his generation. A few hours later Danny is arrested for murder and later is sentenced to twenty-two years in prison, thanks to irrefutable testimony from Spencer, the prosecution's main witness. Danny spends the next few years in a high-security prison while Spencer Craig’s career as a lawyer goes straight up. All the while Danny plans to escape and wreak his revenge. Thus begins Jeffrey Archer’s poignant novel of deception, hatred and vengeance, in which only one of them can finally triumph while the other will spend the rest of his days in jail. But which one will triumph?

My Final Verdict:

Very engaging and keeps you teetering precariously on the edge of your mind! The first time I read the book, I can't stop! I know it's 600 plus pages but seriously, you'll regret if you put it down. From the first page until I flipped the last page, I feel fully satisfied. The plot of the story is very neat, flawless perhaps, and it's of course how you would like it to end. The main character is well developed, strong and not too heroic. Because if it is, then it would be too much for a normal man to survive like well-build hero. Danny is not a hero. He's just a regular man which need to escape from a crime he didn't commit. He used the breakthrough he had which I think it was brilliant! The story is a fast pace, very intriguing and towards the end, when you hope he will escape forever, and live in a life of someone dead, then come the favorite part. The twist of how the brilliant escape finally discovered. One thing for sure, revenge is not everything. But how you avenge is quite something. I enjoyed the book utterly and it is one of the best book written by Archer. In fact, I love all his books. If you think this is not your kind of book, perhaps you should think twice. It's way better.

**I re-read this book and kind of scheming it. I'm doing a little research to compare with a book I'm reading currently at the moment which I also like it as well.