A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer| Published March 4th 2008 by St. Martin’s Press | 501 Pages | Goodreads
✅ REVIEW
This is a retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo set in contemporary times. I was engaged by the story and the plot moved at a quick pace.
I haven’t read the original so I can’t tell how faithful it is, but I knew it was about a wrongfully-accused man that is sent to prison and manages to get out and seek revenge. Good writing and I kept turning those pages (figuratively since I listened to the audiobook)
Things I liked:
– It’s a retelling of a classic novel
– Moves at a fast pace
– Dialogue keeps the reader engaged
✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION
“If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm’s history, who is going to believe his side of the story?
Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped.
However, Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny’s determination to seek revenge, and Beth’s relentless quest to pursue justice, which ends up with all four fighting for their lives.”
✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT
Loan from Miami-Dade’s Library Overdrive, audiobook