Kane and Abel | Kane and Abel

One of the best story tellers of our time | Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer

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	• Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2004 - 592 pages average customer review:based on 164 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent Book

This book was absolutely awesome. It had romance, suspense, a bit of horror (concentration camp images), and revenge. I really liked the way that Jeffery Archer put this one together, It is going down as one of my all time favorites.

Kane and Abel

I love this book. My last copy was so worn and ripped I had to get a new one. This is one book and can read more then once.

One of the best story tellers of our time

This was a book my mother recommended to me. She read it several years ago and remembered how good it was. And oh how good it was. This is a great story that is told over about 60 years from Europe to America. Archer tells 2 parallel stories. One about Abel Rosnovki and one about William Kane. The story is so well told and so interesting that I felt torn between the two main characters and their stories. You feel pulled away from one story line when Archer takes you to the next. I enjoyed Archer's historical weave throughout each chapter. Especially the history of Poland and the part it played in both World Wars. Fascinating! Each character is developed from birth by the author and he does an outstanding job of taking you thru their childhood, teenage-school years and then adulthood. So, as a reader, you really get a feel for what they are made of and why they made the decisions they made throughout their life. The stories cross paths through-out the book and the ending is a masterful surprise. I have already mooched the sequel The Prodigal Daughter which I can't wait to read.

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A bit disappointing

Well written like all of his novels. I was very interested and involved with the characters. The characters are well developed, the story lines grew as we followed their lives. Then they became very un-likeable. These successful and driven men began to act out of character in my opinion.
The ending was very disappointing and as a result I cannot recommend the book. Great story telling, and then a real let down.

Haven't read it yet..

In the US version (St Martin's Paperbacks) , I found some wordings are different from the UK one (Pan Macmillan).

Like the third paragraph of chapter 1 , the US version reads 'The young hunter ...' while the UK one has this as 'The young boy ...'

Is it normal to have an editing from the UK version?

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William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless polish immigrant-born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world-are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. Over sixty years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have...

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