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Sons of Fortune
First published in hardback in the
UK in 2003 – Macmillan
Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns
with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by
destiny. It is Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940's, and
a set of twins is separated at birth by a desperate nurse. Nat
Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an
insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days
as Fletcher Andrew Davenport, son of a wealthy CEO and his society
wife. During the years that follow, the two brothers grow up unaware
of each other's existence. Nat leaves college at the University
of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam. Returning a war hero, he finishes
school and goes on to become a successful bank executive. Fletcher,
meanwhile, has graduated from Yale University and distinguishes
himself as a criminal defence lawyer before he is elected a senator.
As their lives unfold, both men are confronted with tragedy and
betrayal, loss and hardship, all the time overcoming life's obstacles
to become the men they are destined to be. In the tradition of
Jeffrey Archer's most popular books, SONS OF FORTUNE is as much
a chronicle of a nation in transition as it is the story of the
making of these two men - and how, eventually, they come to find
each other...
#1 New York Times bestselling
author Jeffrey Archer has mesmerized thousands of readers over
the years with his riveting novels and unforgettable characters.
Now he returns with another remarkable novel that proves he is
still one of the most gifted writers of all time...
In hushed maternity ward, an infant dies,
while twin brothers thrive. By morning, one mother is told that
her only child is doing fine. Another is told that she has tragically
lost one of her sons...
Twins separated at birth, Nathaniel Cartwright
and Fletcher Davenport have been raised in different worlds, and
have both thrived among the best and brightest of their generation.
In an era of violent change, free love, and blind ambition, Nat
goes off to war, while Fletcher enters political combat. With
each choice they make -- in love and career, through tragedy and
triumph -- their lives mirror one another... until a high-profile
murder case brings them together. Until a high-stakes political
battle turns them into rivals. Until a decades-old secret is exposed...
and two powerful men must confront their bonds of fate and fortune.
"Archer
provides a fine read with a keen sense of the good and the bad
in people and the importance of kinship... [he] masterfully creates
a great villain in Elliot, who jumps off the pages in all of his
vengeful and shady glamour"
-- Los Angeles Times
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