Gripping and clever, the fourth novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's acclaimed the Clifton Chronicles follows the Cliftons and the Barringtons as they march into the 1960s in a tale of family ambition and betrayal. Emma and her husband Harry Clifton suffer a harrowing trauma involving their son Sebastian, and in respsonse Emma turns her attention to the business. When the chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company resigns, Emma soon finds herself in competition with Major Alex Fisher, who is working from within to destroy the firm before it can build its nex luxury liner, the MV Buckingham. Encountering challenges at every turn, Emma and her adopted daughter Jessica face trouble from a new foe, Lady Virgina Fenwick, and then a surprise new member of the Barrington Board will take Emma's life in a dirrection she could never have anticipated ...