Paths of Glory

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Roger Allam

International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with a triumphant historical novel, Paths of Glory.

Paths of Glory, is the story of such a man—George Mallory. Born in 1886, he was a brilliant student who became part of the Bloomsbury Group at Cambridge in the early twentieth century and served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I. After the war, he married, had three children, and would have spent the rest of his life as a schoolteacher, but for his love of mountain climbing.

Mallory once told a reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, "because it is there." On his third try in 1924, at age thirty-seven, he was last seen four hundred feet from the top. His body was found in 1999, and it remains a mystery whether he and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, ever reached the summit.

In fact, not until you've turned the last page of Archer's extraordinary novel will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to that list of legends, while another name would have to be removed.

©2009 Jeffrety Archer; (P)2009 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

<p>“A dynamite commercial novel … Archer brings it off with panache.” —<i>The Washington Post on A Prisoner of Birth</i><br><br> “Bestseller Archer pays homage to Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo in this delicious updating of the adventure classic.… The author's firsthand knowledge of prison life and legal maneuvers help make this a thoroughly enjoyable entertainment.” —<i>Publishers Weekly on A Prisoner of Birth</i><br><br> “Like other Archer thrillers, the book is compulsively readable.” —<i>Library Journal on A Prisoner of Birth</i><br><br> “A worthy successor to the still bestselling The Da Vinci Code.” —<i>Liz Smith, New York Post, on False Impression</i><br><br> “One of the top ten storytellers in the world.” —<i>Los Angeles Times on Jeffrey Archer</i></p>