Jeffrey Archer is one of my favourite authors, so youcan imagine my disappointment with this book. A "red herring"is supposed to surprise you; the ending of each story issupposed to knock you off your feet and scream "Boomshakalaka!".Unfortunately, Archer succeeded to (mildly) surprise mewith one story only - out of the twelve, and that, in mybook, reads "total failure". Archer should stickto his one-story-per-book approach, and abandon theseforays into the short-story genre.