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written by: Jeffrey Archer The story of a man who missed the record books because he died leaving behind no evidence of his achievement. Just when the readers thought he’s lost his steam as his last novel ‘a prisoner of birth’ failed to meet the expectations, Jeffrey Archer, the writer who’s enthralled his readers for the last few decades with works like Kane and Abel, Four among equals and Not a penny More, Not a penny less, is back with his latest novel based on mountaineering expeditions. It’s really intriguing as to how this guy so consistently and so unfailingly manages to create real heroes out of his lead protagonists in all his works. Based on actual events as the writer himself claims, the story is about a guy named George Mallory who scales great heights with his mountaineering and Rock climbing skills and about his desire to climb the Everest that has been left unscaled till date (mind you the story takes you back to early 1900s when Edmund Hillary hadn’t yet conquered the a