Bestselling author
Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife
Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been
involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend
Bruno?
When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as
chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him.
But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex
Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company
plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham.
Back in London, Harry and Emma’s adopted
daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love
with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families
are delighted until Priscilla Bingham, Jessica’s future mother-in-law, has a
visit from an old friend, Lady Virginia Fenwick, who drops her particular brand
of poison into the wedding chalice.
Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a
bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the
board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have
anticipated, and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and
Barrington families. Hardcastle’s first decision is who to support to become
the next chairman of the board: Emma Clifton or Major Alex Fisher? And with
that decision, the story takes yet another twist that will keep you on the edge
of your seat.
Be Careful What You Wish For showcases the master storyteller’s talent as never
before – when the Clifton and Barrington families march forward into the
sixties, in this epic tale of love, revenge, ambition and betrayal
