The Eleventh Commandment (1998) - Jeffrey Archer

Written by Jeffrey Archer
Read by Paul Hecht
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Release date: December 31, 1998
Duration: 10:38:59

The eleventh commandment: “Thou shalt not be caught”, becomes a challenge that fills Connor’s path with nonstop action and danger.

Publishers Weekly…
From the first line, former British M.P. Archer navigates a nonstop, rocketing ride. Middle-aged Connor Fitzgerald is a happily married man, decorated veteran and devoted father; he’s also an “NOC,” a “non-official cover officer” for the CIA specializing in assassinations. The killing of a Colombian drug lord leaves Connor out of sync with the Democratic president’s policy, so the director of the CIA, a woman, sets Connor up to take the fall in a fake assassination of the leading candidate for the Russian presidency, an unreconstructed Stalinist. Connor (aided by an ex-CIA deputy director whose life he once saved) gets out of a St. Petersburg jail and falls into the hands of the Russian Mafia. Wheels spin within wheels until the slam-bang climax during the new Russian president’s visit to Washington. Some plot details, including the final twist, are a tad hokey, and Connor keeps his much-touted charisma under wraps, yet Archer sweeps us along and even finds time to write himself into the plot as London’s mayor, a position he seeked in real life. The only boo-boo here is Archer’s unwitting revivification of flamboyant Redskins owner and Northern Virginia tycoon Jack Kent Cooke (though he was a character). In any case, readers won’t mind the occasional giddiness: this isn’t Tolstoy, it’s fun.

Narrator Paul Hecht captures each of the powerful characters and highlights an unforgettable web of intrigue that will keep you enthralled until the final, surprising twist. I have two version and this is, by far, the best