Jeffrey Archer. First U.K. Edition. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket in a mylar protective wrapper. Jacket design by Julie and Steven Ridgeway. Hardcover: Near Fine. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. No writing or markings in this well preserved edition, 447 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine.
"Here is a novel destined to become the smash bestseller of the year - an absorbing, engrossing, sheerly gratifying book. Millions of readers found these qualities in the longest running bestseller of 1979, Jeffrey Archer's Kane & Abel, a panoramic tale of the titanic battle between two men obsessed with destroying each other. Now the story continues into the next generation. The novel begins in 1934, in the rich territory of Kane & Abel, when a daughter is born to the once penniless immigrant Abel Rosnovski, now a hotel baron. Her name is Florentyna, and even in her early years it is clear to those around her - proud father, bemused mother, formidable English governess - that she is a girl of unusual spirit and indomitable will: her beauty, intellect, and precocity all signal the growth of a woman whose future knows no bounds."
