A Matter of Honour

A man of honor (Original Title: A Matter Of Honour, Simon & Schuster, 1986) is a novel by English writer and politician Jeffrey Archer, who has appeared in German translation by Heinrich rest in 1987, first in Paul Zsolnay Verlag.

Action

The starting point for the main 1966 gambling thriller is the sale of Alaska by Russia, the so-called Alaska Purchase to the United States in 1867 The author plays with the fiction that Russia had in one - a right of repurchase secret treaty -. Not unusual for those diplomacy backed by 99 years. However, this document was in the throes of the February Revolution of 1917, lost and now rests somewhere in an icon as a hiding place.

Ironically, four weeks before the expiry of the period experienced by the Russian head of state Leonid Brezhnev of this contract, recognized the strategic potential and instructed the KGB with the search. Thus, the British art connoisseur Adam Scott in the crossfire when he wants to pick up an icon of the 14th century from a bank vault in Switzerland, which has indirectly bequeathed him by his late father. This was in the possession of the icon passes through the notorious art collector Hermann Goering, who left the work of art his guard during the Nuremberg Trials as a reward for the fair treatment.

Expenditure

• Jeffrey Archer: A man of honor. Translated from English by Fanny Esterhazy, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Wien, 1987, 391 pp., ISBN 3-442-09436-4
• Jeffrey Archer: A man of honor. Bastion Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2002, ISBN 978-3404147106