The Prodigal Daughter

In 1979, Kane & Abel was a Sunday Times No. 1 best seller. It has since been translated into 21 languages and published in 61 countries. That novel told the story of two powerful men obsessed with destroying each other. Now Jeffrey Archer continues the story into the next generation – the generation that follows that titanic battle – with Florentyna Rosnovski (daughter of Abel, daughter-in-law of Kane), a woman in pursuit of an ambition that dwarfs even that of her father and his adversary.

Her story begins in the rich territory of Kane & Abel, in 1934, where Florentyna’s father, once a penniless immigrant is emerging as one of the most powerful hotel barons in America. Even as a schoolchild, Florentyna, precocious and spirited, demonstrates a will that neither her indomitable English governess nor, later, her demanding professors can tame. it is to be the irony of her life that the man she is destined to love is the son of her father’s lifelong enemy. She is a woman who is not satisfied with second place, choosing to forfeit her inheritance and marry the man she loves. Florentyna builds a mighty empire of her own; and, finally, her ambitions lead hert o chase the highest office in the United States.