Simply to save their life, Alexander Karpenko and his mother fled from their hometown in Leningrad, Russia to two choices of destination countries, Great Britain or the United States. In this story, Alexander lived the two life paths, as Sasha in Great Britain and Alex in the United States. The story goes alternately between Sasha and Alex. The challenge of reading these two parallel stories is that there are times when I get mixed up between Sasha's story line and Alex's story line.

By comparing the stories of Sasha and Alex, since the beginning, it's easy to predict which story line is the favorite of Jeffrey Archer. The stories of Sasha and Alex are both... See More