Adventure/SuspenseLarge Print Edition* A New York Times Bestseller* A Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate SelectionJeffrey Archer suggests that this bestseller is 80% fact and 20% fiction. But his descriptions of rival media moguls must hit the mark pretty accurately since Kevin Maxwell, son of the late media baron Robert Maxwell, tried to have it banned. In The Fourth Estate we meet Australian Keith Townsend whose sharp mind and cold-hearted business acumen helped forge one of the worlds biggest newspaper empires. His rival is Richard Armstrong, a courageous escapee of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. Both Brilliant and determined, here are two men whose quest for influence and power could propel their empires to the brink of financial disaster and catastrophe.
Jeffrey Archer was educated at Oxford University. He has served five years in Britain's House of Commons, fourteen years in the House of Lords and two in Her majesty's prisons, which spawned three volumes of highly acclaimed Prison Diaries. All of his novels and short story collections--including Kane and Abel, Sons of Fortune, and False Impression--have been international bestsellers. Archer is married with two children and lives in London and Cambridge.
