NOTHING VENTURED

Nothing Ventured is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer.This is a story about detective William Warwick who has always wanted to be a detective and decides to join London’s Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of his first mentor Constable Fred Yates to his first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques squad. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum he meets Beth Rainsford a research assistant at the gallery who he falls hopelessly in love with even as Beth guards a secret of her own that she’s terrified will come to light.While William follows the trail of the missing masterpiece he comes up against suave art collector Miles Faulkner and his brilliant lawyer Booth Watson QC who are willing to bend the law to breaking point to stay one step ahead of William. Meanwhile Miles Faulkner’s wife Christina befriends William but whose side is she really on?Nothing Ventured heralds the start of the William Warwick Novels in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s number one Sunday Times bestselling The Clifton Chronicles: telling the story of the life of William Warwick – as a family man and a detective who will battle throughout his career against a powerful criminal nemesis. Through twists triumph and tragedy this series will show that William Warwick is destined to become one of Jeffrey Archer’s most enduring legacies.Continue the gripping series with Hidden in Plain Sight.