Having read only 1 other book by him, ‘Prisoner Of Birth’, I can’t really affirm this particular claim. Some say that ‘ Kane And Abel‘ is Archer’s best work so far. Are they successful in their personal vendettas? Read up the novel to find out more. Gradually, these two rise in power and stature, get to know each other by quirks of fate which cements their relation of hate and turns both on to a path to destroy each other. Kane becomes part of the board of directors in his own bank while Wladek runs a hotel in Chicago after a lot of struggling in low paying jobs. Kane steadily rises to the positions of power in America while Wladek embarks on a life changing journey to America to make a name and a fortune. While William’s life is set out for him by his father who is the chairman of Kane and Cabot bank, Wladek’s life is fraught with difficulties and struggles in the light of which he discovers his strengths and weaknesses as well as his father’s identity. Two infants-William Kane and Wladek Koskiewicz- are born on the same day on two different continents: Kane with a silver spoon in America and Wladek to a nameless mother in Poland. This curious fusion creates a thrilling page turner in the form of ‘ Kane And Abel.’ But when Jeffrey Archer uses these two aspects in his best-seller, ‘ Kane And Abel‘, he fuses other aspects as well such as a bildungsroman theme, ego, hatred, economic empires, economic clout and a concise history of America from the 1900s’ to the 1960s’. Power and money are often motives around which detective stories revolve.

Power, must be in want of more power.’ Power and money are often themes around which entire books or series revolve.

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