Location: Home > Art, Architecture & Photography > Archer, Jeffrey > False Impression

False Impression

Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book

List Price: ~~Ł6.99~~
Buy Used: Ł0.01
You Save: Ł6.98 (100%)

New (37) Used (234) Collectible (1) from Ł0.01

Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

21 reviews
Sales Rank: 9021

Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 451
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.3

ISBN: 0330418823
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780330418829
ASIN: 0330418823

Publication Date: November 3, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Also Available In:

•	Paperback - False Impression

Similar Items:

•	Cat O' Nine Tales
•	A Prisoner of Birth
•	Prison Diary 2: Wayland - Purgatory
•	Prison Diary 3
•	A Prison Diary: Volume 1 - Hell

Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

False Impression - jeffrey archer May 24, 2008
Good fast paced story that really gets you gripped early. Has the added drama of being set at the time of the 9/11 disaster. Main characters interesting and well described.
Well worth the read

5 out of 5 stars

Interesting to the last page. April 10, 2008
Jeffrey Archer is one of the best authors - I can never put his books down.This one is one of his best.

3 out of 5 stars

Nonsense yet a pageturner December 29, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

It's difficult to know what to make of this book... on the one hand it's easy-to-read and a real page turner. The characters are fairly simple to understand, the plot is fairly sequential, and I suppose you'd consider this good holiday reading material. Certain aspects seem very well researched and it's a book that's easy to put down and pick up again without having to go back too far.

On the other hand I would have expected more from Jeffrey Archer - compared to some of his earlier books this is several steps backwards. His characters are not believable, the storyline is far fetched to put it mildly, there's something just thoroughly unconvincing about this book.

If I was to make a comparison to anything I would actually liken this book to some of the Sean Dillon stories by Jack Higgins - a page-turner yet completely off this planet!

In terms of a rating, I'd give it five stars for being a page-turner, and one star for being unconvincing... so an average of 3 seems about right.

4 out of 5 stars

set in 2001 but makes a 2004 blunder!!! August 17, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Mr Archer- clearly you don't have a smart proofreader! The story is set in 2001 and you mention a 2004 event! Unless your character (Insurance guy) has a crystal ball, he wouldn't have mentioned the "Scream" painting of Edward Munch which was stolen in August 2004. Whoopsy- someone's done a faux pas!
OTherwise, clearly Mr archer hasn't lost his touch, can still write a well-paced interesting read!

3 out of 5 stars

No detailed impression! July 23, 2007
Whilst the story sped along at a fair pace, it's a pity Mr Archer didn't pay enough attention to some basic details. Would the heroine really be able to travel to Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, Bucharest on the $3000 dollars or so she had with her? The flights alone would probably have cost in excess of that-and her accommodation in Tokyo (one of the world's most expensive cities) would surely have depleted her funds. Yes, I was impressed with Mr Archer's knowledge of the art world but rather less with his knowledge of the real world!