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.
