To Cut A Long Story Short
By (Author) Jeffrey Archer
Pan Macmillan
Pan Books
28th October 2025
17th July 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Modern and Contemporary romance
Adventure / action fiction
823.914
Paperback
320
Width 131mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
220g
'Stylish, witty and constantly entertaining . . . Jeffrey Archer has a natural aptitude for short stories' - The Times A collection of fourteen riveting short stories from the number one internationally bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. An intoxicating woman appears to her lover only once every six years. A British diplomat employs his rather creative - if not entirely ethical - financial talents for a greater good. And a millionaire declares himself bankrupt to test the love and loyalties of those closest to him. These riveting tales of elaborate confidence tricks, political chicanery, immoral behaviour, and dangerously illicit affairs are rendered with the breath-taking narrative twists that have become the Jeffrey Archer hallmark. Peopled with a rich assortment of truly memorable characters, these stories will engross and astonish. To Cut A Long Story Short is an enthralling set of short stories from the bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and the William Warwick series. Nothing Ventured PB was an instant Sunday Times no.1 bestseller when it published 19.03.2020 ***** Praise for Jeffrey Archer: 'Archer has a gift for plot that can only be described as genius' - The Daily Telegraph 'Probably the greatest storyteller of our age' - The Mail on Sunday 'Outstanding . . . white-knuckle suspense and witty dnouements' - Daily Express 'Archer hits the bull's-eye with an exemplary collection of short stories' - Daily Mail
Jeffrey Archer has a gift for plot that can only be described as genius * The Daily Telegraph *
Probably the greatest storyteller of our age * The Mail on Sunday *
Outstanding . . . white-knuckle suspense and witty dnouements. Enjoyable, suspense-filled rival to Roald Dahl * Daily Express *
Stylish, witty and constantly entertaining . . . Jeffrey Archer has a natural aptitude for short stories * The Times *
The economy and precision of Archers prose never fails to delight. The criminal doesnt always get away with his crime and justice doesnt always prevail, but the reader wins with each and every story * Publishers Weekly *
Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories include The Clifton Chronicles, Kane and Abel and Cat O' Nine Tales, is one of the world's favourite storytellers and has topped the bestseller lists around the world in a career spanning four decades. His work has been sold in more than one hundred countries and in fifty-one languages. He is the only author ever to have been a No. 1 bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).