If Daniel Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before or the day after, he would not have been charged with the murder of his best friend.
Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, took his fiance up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation.
Spencer Craig goes on to call Beth a whore and he told his friends he wanted a gangbang. Bernie Wilson,Beth's brother and Daniel's best friend had also come with them. He grew angry and was set to fight Spencer but Daniel stopped him. Beth asked them whether they could leave the bar so as to avoid any more problems. Spencer and his men come out and Danny and Bernie get into a fight with them.Beth runs too get a cab so that they can run away. When she returns, she finds Daniel holding her dead brother who had been stabbed with a knife.A few hours later Danny was arrested for murder and later was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison, thanks to irrefutable testimony from Spencer, the prosecution's main witness.
Danny spends the next few years in a high-security prison while Spencer Craig's career as a lawyer goes straight up. All the while Danny plans to escape and wreak his revenge.Finally Danny manages to escape and wrecks the lives of the actor and the young partner, men who were with Craig on the day Bernie died.Danny takes over a huge sum of money as when he escaped, he had escaped with the identity of another man.All this man's money goes to Danny.This man was Danny's frriend and had died.Danny was rich enough now and destroyed two of the men.Spencer finds out who he is and tries to put Danny back in prison. But his lawyer and the lawyer's father save Danny in a nail biting event in court.Finally, the actor confesses and Danny is saved. He lived happily now with his wife and their daughter. Read the book to find out everything.
Thus ends Jeffrey Archer's poignant novel of deception, hatred and vengeance, in which only one of them can finally triumph while the other will spend the rest of his days in jail. But which one will triumph? This suspenseful novel takes the listener through so many twists and turns that no one will guess the ending, even the most ardent of Archer's many, many fans.
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