Kane and Abel

Two boys are born on the same day in 1906, one into a Boston banking fortune, the other into poverty on the far side of the world. William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski seem to have nothing in common, yet their lives are bound together, and a single grudge grows into a contest that runs for sixty years and three generations. Each man builds an empire, and each is driven as much by hatred of the other as by ambition.

Jeffrey Archer tells it with the pace and nerve of a man who knows exactly where his story is heading. It became a worldwide bestseller and led to two sequels. For anyone who likes a big, old-fashioned saga of money, rivalry and the American century, with a duel at its heart that you cannot stop watching.