It took Jeffrey some time to find a publisher for this first novel. When it was published, it only sold 3,000 copies in hardback. The paperback did a bit better, selling about 20,000 in the first year. However, as word-of-mouth took over, demand increased. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less has now been reprinted 57 times.
'If there were a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win' - The Daily TelegraphFirst published 50 years ago, Jeffrey Archer's debut novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, is a page-turning tale of fraud, revenge, and determination as four men stop at nothing to get back what was stolen from them. It was an international success, launching Jeffrey's standing as a master storyteller.DON'T GET MEAN. GET EVEN. One million dollars - that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches.Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless.But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men.They band together and shadow him from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot and the hallowed lawns of Oxford.Their plan is simple: to sting the crook for exactly what they lost - not a penny more, not a penny less.Praise for Jeffrey Archer'Probably the greatest storyteller of our age' - Mail on Sunday'Archer has a gift for plot that can only be described as genius' - The Daily Telegraph'Stylish, witty and constantly entertaining' - The Times
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'If there were a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win' - The Daily TelegraphFirst published 50 years ago, Jeffrey Archer's debut novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, is a page-turning tale of fraud, revenge, and determination as four men stop at nothing to get back what was stolen from them. It was an international success, launching Jeffrey's standing as a master storyteller.DON'T GET MEAN.
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less was written by Jeffrey Archer and published by Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less has 336 pages
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