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Authors: Jeffrey Archer

Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Genre Fiction, #Family Saga, #Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, #Thrillers & Suspense, #Suspense, #Sagas

Cometh the Hour: A Novel (50 page)

Volume One—Belmarsh: Hell

Volume Two—Wayland: Purgatory

Volume Three—North Sea Camp: Heaven

SCREENPLAYS

Mallory: Walking Off the Map

False Impression

 

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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Family Tree

Prologue

Harry and Emma Clifton: 1970–1971

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Giles Barrington: 1971

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Lady Virginia Fenwick: 1971

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Sebastian Clifton: 1971

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Lady Virginia Fenwick: 1972

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Maisie Clifton: 1972

Chapter 25

Emma Clifton: 1972–1975

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Sebastian Clifton: 1975

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Hakim Bishara: 1975

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Giles Barrington: 1976–1977

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Harry and Emma Clifton: 1978

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Epilogue: 1978

About the Author

Also by Jeffrey Archer

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

COMETH THE HOUR.
Copyright © 2016 by Jeffrey Archer. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Cover design by Michael Storrings

Cover photographs: Big Ben clock tower © PacosRulz/Getty Images; bridge © Gillian McBain/EyeEm/Getty Images; silhouttes © Macie J. Noskowski/Getty Images; Taj Mahal © Holger Mette/Getty Images; Empire State Building © Gert-Jan Mes/Getty Images; woman © Pandorabox/Shutterstock; man © freya-photographer/Shutterstock

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Names: Archer, Jeffrey, 1940– author.

Title: Cometh the hour / Jeffrey Archer.

Description: First Edition. | New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016. | Series: Clifton Chronicles; 6

Identifiers: LCCN 2015040993 | ISBN 9781250061621 (hardback) | ISBN 9781466867505 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Families—England—History—20th century—Fiction. | Social classes—England—Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Sagas. | GSAFD: Historical fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6051.R285 C66 2016 | DDC 823/.914—dc23

LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040993

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Originally published in Great Britain by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

First Edition: February 2016

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