A Matter Of Honour

by Jeffrey Archer

Paperback, 1993

Status

Available

Collection

Mystery

Genres

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

HarperCollins (1993), Edition: (Reissue), 352 pages

Description

Featuring a bonus interview with the authorAdisgraced British colonel bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son. The moment Adam Scott opens the yellowing envelope, he sets into motion a deadly chain of events.Within days, he's running for his life, pursued by the KGB, the CIA, and his own countrymen. Powerful men plot his destruction and Adam is betrayed and abandoned even by those he holds most dear. When he finally realizes what he possesses, he's even more determined to protect it, for it's more than a matter of life and death-- it's a matter of honor.

User reviews

LibraryThing member MrsHillReads

Archer is on our English CP reading list, I recommend his books to Tom Clancy fans.

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LibraryThing member mattrutherford

Clearly an early effort. The pacing and suspense are there, but characterization is completely absent.

LibraryThing member franoscar

Part of book project. This was fun, SPOILER WARNING, pretty standard love the Brits hate the Soviets fare. I don't think the central idea really held water, and the plot is pretty improbably in the specifics. (ok, I guess no spoiler here)

LibraryThing member debavp

For such a small book it took way too long to read. Unlike a lot of spy stuff, this was too dated. It could have been a lot more interesting with a little more effort put into it. Definitely doesn't give you that 'hmmm, what if ???' feeling at the end.

LibraryThing member jayne_charles

One of the first I read by Jeffrey Archer, and my favourite until I read some of his more recent efforts, which were a bit more multi-layered than this. It's a good, fast paced read, though I wish the end had been clearer. I'm not too good at deducing meaning, I need it writ large, or at least

larger in this case.

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LibraryThing member Kelberts

Didn't like the ending.

LibraryThing member crashmyparty

A Matter Of Honour was different for me to read compared with Archer's other narratives, as I wasn't hooked in the same way as I have found previously. It was a relatively quick read but it took some time before I was really, fully engrossed in the story. It still had the usual Archer elements of

daring plot twists and turns and had me trying to think ahead, to what I would do next in the same situation. But it still felt like something was missing - not sure what. It just didn't live up to A Prisoner of Birth or Kane and Abel, but not a bad read.

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LibraryThing member HenriMoreaux

I previously was of the opinion that Jeffrey Archer wrote trash books, as that is what I've heard whenever people speak of his writing. Whilst from a literary stand point they may be trash, I am pleased to come to the realisation that from an entertainment standpoint they really are quite

entertaining and enjoyable. I previously liked The Eleventh Commandment and seeing this, A Matter of Honour, buried in a pile of paperbacks I thought I'd dig it out and give it a shot - I was not disappointed. Not at all.

Set in 1966 A Matter of Honour is quite the spy romp, whilst the main character himself isn't a spy per se, he nonetheless is thrust into the world of international men of mystery when his father bequests to him an envelope within which is a letter from Hermann Goring (the German Reichsmarschall) containing instructions enabling him to collect a Russian artifact which was seized by the Nazis.

Whilst the plot itself is out there, it's not so out there that it ruins the story with a lack of belief, instead the reader is drawn into a battle between the average ordinary man and forces he doesn't initially understand and that have vastly more resources at their disposal.

The story stretches across Europe as the protagonist tries desperately to get home to England with seemingly the world on his heels.

One might even dare to say the finale of the book was even exciting.

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