A Matter of Honor by Jeffrey Archer (1986, Hardcover)

A Matter of Honor
by Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Linden Press/Simon and Schuster
Copyright 1986
Book Club Edition

"And to my dearly beloved and only son, Captain Adam Scott, I bequeath . . . the enclosed envelope, which I can only hope will bring him greater happiness than it did me.  Should he decide to open the envelope, it must be on the condition that he will never divulge its contents to any other living person."

As Adam listens to the final bequest of his father's will, he knows he will at last learn the unspoken secret that shadowed the peaceful retirement of Colonel Scott and turned him from a World War II hero into a disgraced and broken man.

But inside the yellowed envelope Adam finds a far more important secret.

The path Adam has to follow leads him first to the innermost vault of a Swiss bank where his real inheritance lies -- a priceless work of Russian art, a 14th-century icon, smuggled out of Russia by the last Czar and subsequently passed into the hands of a Nazi war criminal by a bizarre twist of fate.  In following the path to clear his father's name, Adam has stumbled upon a revelation so explosive that it could forever change the balance of power between America and the Soviet Union.

Not since John Buchan's The Thirty-nine Steps has an author so deftly putted an innocent man against the overwhelming force of malign enemy.  First to be menaced is the woman Adam loves, awakening him at a terrible cost to the danger that surrounds him.  In his flight back across Europe, he learns that in a game of such high stakes, no one is particular about how to get his hands on the icon.  Even his own countrymen cannot be relied upon.  As the knife of tension is twisted progressively deeper, Adam can survive only by his wits.  And then he makes the mistake of trusting his closest friend.

Jeffrey Archer has proven himself time and again to be the most versatile of modern writers.  In Kane & Abel, he told of a bitter fight betweenn rivals over money and pride.  In his number-one best-seller, First Among Equals, he has rendered a battle between three men for fame and power.  In A Matter of Honor, he has rendered a battle between the innocent man and the trained killer that will leave you breathless.  Here is a novel of unrelenting suspense, complete with turns of plot and the double and triple twists that have become Archer trademarks.  This is Archer at the top of his form.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages may be tanning from age.  Dust cover show tanning from age and a bit of edge wear.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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