The Sins of the Father

Jeffrey Archer First published 2012

About this book

It is only days before Britain declares war on Germany. Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of a family scandal, and realizing he can never marry Emma Barrington, has joined the Merchant Navy. When a German U-boat sinks his ship, Harry and a handful of sailors are rescued by the SS Kansas Star, among them an American named Tom Bradshaw. That night, when Bradshaw dies, Harry seizes a chance to bury his past―by assuming the man's identity.

Subjects

  • british
  • deception
  • england, fiction
  • englisch
  • families
  • family life
  • family secrets
  • fiction
  • fiction, family life
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • historical / general
  • history
  • impostors and imposture
  • large type books
  • marital conflict
  • modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
  • new york (n.y.), fiction
  • new york times bestseller
  • nyt:hardcover-fiction=2012-05-27
  • roman
  • sagas
  • secrecy
  • secrets
  • voyages and travels
  • world war, 1939-1945
  • world war, 1939-1945, fiction