Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and best-selling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer.

Leningrad, Russia, 1968.

Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America or Great Britain? Alexander leaves that choice to the toss of a coin....

In a single moment, a double twist decides Alexander’s future. During an epic tale of fate and fortune, spanning two continents and 30 years, we follow his triumphs and defeats as he struggles as an immigrant to conquer his new world. As this unique story unfolds, Alexander comes to realise where his destiny lies and accepts that he must face the past he left behind in Russia.

With a final twist that will shock even his most ardent fans, this is international number one best seller Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel.

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Listening Length	15 hours and 54 minutes
Author	Jeffrey Archer
Narrator	Richard Armitage
Audible.in Release Date	01 November 2018
Publisher	Macmillan Digital Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07BSJT488
Best Sellers Rank	#1,558 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals) #12 in Fiction Sagas #59 in Historical Fiction (Audible Audiobooks & Originals) #1,109 in Historical Fiction (Books)

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Asif Karmali

QUINTESSENTIALLY ARCHER

Reviewed in India on 9 December 2018

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Working class hero- CHECK
First in class- CHECK
Strong independent mother- CHECK
College Politics- CHECK
Successful Banker- CHECK
Boardroom Politics - CHECK
Faberge Egg - CHECK
Suicide- CHECK
Fatal Accident- CHECK
Its about as predictable as it can get. Yet the master storyteller keeps you enthralled as you follow Alex and Sasha.
Takes a lot of liberties as the main characters can do no wrong and their political career is handed to them on a platter.
The abrupt ending is a huge disappointment

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Readington

Most average work by Archer

Reviewed in India on 17 November 2019

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I would rate this book as one of the most average work by the master story-teller Jefferey Archer.
He is one of my favourite authors and have read his each and every book till date.

But this one falls way way below any expectations.
It seems like Archer has taken all his earlier plots and storylines in a cauldron and churned it around to get this story out. Most of the incidences and the way the story moved forward gave a feeling that you have already read it somewhere and it was beginning to get boring.

I just plodded on till the end like a true fan to get to the twist but was highly disappointed by the ending too.
The minor little TWIST that he threw in at the end had already been worked out by anyone with half a brain, halfway through the story.

If you are really a Jeffery Archer fan, give this one a miss; and you would miss nothing!

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Tails you lose ..

Reviewed in India on 16 February 2019

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What a sad fall from grace for an author who was one of the best in his peak. Entire second half of the book put me to sleep. Nowhere near his to prime. Perhaps time for Jeffrey Archer to stop writing altogether. I rate it as his worst book ever.

For folks who find this is a good book, please go back and read his first books, difference is chalk and cheese.

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Entertainer (even if you don't like it)

Reviewed in India on 24 January 2019

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This was my first Jeffrey Archer novel. It had loopholes but I still felt connected to it.
Kept the novel light and not melo-dramatic. It was fantastic until the last few pages which made it bit weird.
Would have rated it 5 stars,but the last few pages were really very weird.
The ending (last 2-3 pages) took me by surprise but it was bit rushed (but the last name though!)
Bought it for 99 on kindle will still consider it paisa-vasool!

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Puhup Srivastav

Average effort

Reviewed in India on 1 January 2020

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The story telling is as brilliant as ever... however, one can’t help but realise fairly early in the book that there’s nothing new to the story... this book is basically a cocktail of his earlier stories.... while one does miss anything different & new, it’s still worth a read for the brilliant story telling skills of the author

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RTM

The very first time experience of disappointment

Reviewed in India on 4 March 2019

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The Master story teller has only kept me in awe; every single time whether it's a short story or a novel, until I had finished this book. Even after the shock/ excitement of the'Vladimir' twist; the lingering feeling was disappointment. For me, A Jeffrey Archer work is never a let down; it has always taken me into their lives and made me feel like knowing the characters forever.

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Too confusing and not very convincing

Reviewed in India on 24 October 2019

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i have always been a fan of Jeffrey Archer ...that isz until i completed tghisz book. my suggestion for those who are deciding on reaDing this book ...you will not miss out anything if you dont read thisz book. i didn't liked the idea of having two heroes and their wives meeting...not g at all convincing. the story line was fine until he boarded the ship. then it goesz back and forth. co nvoluted and confusing. and then comes the ending...bummer. you can skip this book safely

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Dr. Sk

Not great

Reviewed in India on 30 August 2020

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Have been going through all of Jeffery archer's work one by one.this is the worst among them so far . Cannot hold a candle to kane and abel or the clifton series. I was just waiting for it to get over whereas with the others i dreaded coming to the end. Too convoluted and kind of mixed up n

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Alison J Cooper

Heads You Win - certainly NOT a winner for me.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2018

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This book was not for me, it didn’t grip me at all unlike the majority of Lord Archer’s other books and I’ve read just about all of them now, some more than once they were that good! Very disappointed with this latest offering from Lord Archer, I just couldn’t get my head around the storyline at all, I found it a very frustrating read, it is basically two stories about the same person, one storyline about a young man and his mother who, after the toss of a coin, end up in America and then the other side of the story is about would have happened had he ended up in a crate bound for England.
Ludicrous storyline in my opinion, but it is only my opinion. I can’t recommend The Clifton Chronicles enough, that series of books was an utterly enthralling, exciting and fabulous series to read so I was expecting an even more compelling story for Jeffrey’s next offering, sadly not this time.

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raz0000

Not the best read....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 November 2018

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Edited review (13.01.19).

Initially i wrote a perfect 5 star review when I was about a third into the book as follows 'Great story in the style of Kane and Abel & A Matter of Honour. A brilliant read!'

Now that I've got to the end, my overall review is now only 2 stars. The last 100 pages or so appear too rushed and you never really get to knowing what happens to characters - as others have mentioned, some characters feel lifted from earlier novels.

The ending (promoted as a 'shock') doesn't work and feels like It was rushed to meet deadlines.

This book could have been so much better if it was split into two separate novels and then a combined conclusion.

Not Jeffrey Archer's best!!

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Jill C.

Pathetic ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2018

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I pre-ordered this book in April and had been looking forward to reading it all summer. It arrived on November 1st, as promised, and I started reading it straight away. For the first three quarters of the book I was absolutely rivetted and couldn't put it down, but from thereon it became less gripping. I ploughed on, nevertheless, only to be thoroughly disappointed by the very weak ending. I felt cheated.

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Peliroja

Two and a half stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 November 2018

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Well, Kane and Abel this most certainly is not.

MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW (Edited on 1/12/18 to say that Mr Archer was on the Graham Norton radio show today and he spoke freely about the 2 'Sliding Doors' scenarios in the book, so what I have written below is actually spoiler-free.)

The blurb explains that as Alexander escapes from Russia he has to make a decision as to which ship to hide in - one sailing to Britain or one heading for the USA. The story actually takes on a parody of Sliding Doors, with both scenarios playing out. I quite liked this, once I got used to it. However, the book needed to be much longer as so much was skimmed over and characters not properly developed. Many character types are straight from the pages of Archer's earlier books, particularly the cardboard cut-out wives and the dastardly fraudsters intent on ruining Alexander along they way.

But the reason this went from a 4 star book to a 2/3 one is the dreadful ending. I felt totally cheated and, honestly, there is absolutely no point reading the story. Worst ending I've read in ages. I cannot understand how any editor would have allowed it. That's the last time I shell out for an Archer hardback!

29 people found this helpful

Clive

Good story with a few flaws

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2018

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Archer is a fantastic storyteller. This is no exception. His quick and easy to read prose makes the plot absorbing and the chapters fly by. The characters are strong and bring the emotion to the reader as we see Alex/ Sasha go through tribulations at school/ college and in employment. The parallel stories of the Russian immigrant in UK and US is good, as the parallels compare (playing chess, love of art, political aspirations) nicely. There are a few fundamental flaws that in a sci-fi world would cause a discontinuity of space and time, and the ending was frankly poor.

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