As I stated before in the about me section one of my passion are reading good books. It has been a long time since I've read any good new books and hence I will be short on the review of the old memorable books that I have read in my lifetime and the lesson that I have learned from them. Again as the saying goes: Books maketh the man.

First Among Equal
Preface:
Charles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother's strength-and the will to realize his destiny...Simon Kerslake's father sacrificed everything to make sure his son's dreams come true. Now it is Simon's chance to rise as high as those dreams allow...Ray Gould was born to the back streets but raised with pride-a quality.

This is one of my favorite books. Made by my favorite author Jeffrey Archer. Basically the story revolves around three different lives. This is a story of three highly talented men all with different life stories that are intertwined into each others lives as they vie for the position of the prime minister of Britain. 





As The Crow Flies
As The Crow Flies follows the life of Charlie Trumper, beginning from when he was a young boy at the turn of century in 1900s, where he first learned about the costermonger business from his grandfather, known to be the finest trader in the East End of London. When his grandfather dies, Charlie inherits the business. Spanning over 70 years, we follow Charlie through both WWI and WWII as he strives to realize his childhood ambition to become a department store magnate, all the while being afflicted by an ongoing family feud with the affluent Trentham family. 

It is a rags-to-riches story of determination, war, boardroom drama, rivalry and revenge any Jeffrey Archer fans would recognize as reminiscent of Kane and Abel. 

And because of that, lies my problem with this one because I keep comparing the two books. I lovedKane and Abel tremendously, I couldn’t find fault in it but somehow As The Crow Flies did not seem to work out for me: it feels a bit over the top and melodramatic. 

And not just that, the story keeps shifting between the perspectives of one character to the other … and when that happens, the story gets a bit repetitive and it annoys me because I really want to know what happens next.

Don’t get me wrong, I still think Jeffrey Archer is one of the greatest storyteller of our time and I would read anything written by him. As The Crow Flies is undoubtedly one fine story

Kane And Abel


Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. These two men -- ambitious, powerful, ruthless -- are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fuelled by their all-consuming hatred. Over 60 years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have.











The Prodigal Daughter


With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel's daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more to be the first female president.

Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world-and to 
build a future with the woman he loves. 

With Florentyna's ultimate goal only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering price of power as a titanic battle of betrayal and deception reaches out from the past-a blood feud between two generations that threatens to destroy everything Florentyna and Richard have fought to achieve.



The King of Torts

Clay Carter has been at the office of the public defender too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king of torts...







The Firm


Mitchell McDeere, raised in the coal-mining region of rural Kentucky, has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. He's young. He's bright. He's ambitious. Mitch could have the pick of the big firms in New York and Chicago, but he's chosen the Memphis tax firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke. They're selective. They pay outrageous salaries. They have a turnover rate of zero. And Mitch is about to find out why.Several events fuel Mitch's growing suspicions: two of the partners die in a suspicious diving accident off Grand Cayman; the senior partners seem unduly proud of the fact that no one has ever resigned; and security measures at the office are, even for a company with billionaire clients, more than a little extreme. Then Mitch makes an explosive discovery: The firm is owned and operated by the most powerful organized crime family in Chicago. Even as Mitch discovers the truth, he finds himself caught between the FBI, who wants an informant inside the firm, and the firm itself, which will make him a very rich man—or a very dead one