Four Warned Read online

  How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps

  John Bird

  Humble Pie

  Gordon Ramsay

  Jack and Jill

  Lucy Cavendish

  Kung Fu Trip

  Benjamin Zephaniah

  Last Night Another Soldier

  Andy McNab

  Life’s New Hurdles

  Colin Jackson

  Life’s Too Short

  Val McDermid, Editor

  Lily

  Adèle Geras

  The Little One

  Lynda La Plante

  Love is Blind

  Kathy Lette

  Men at Work

  Mike Gayle

  Money Magic

  Alvin Hall

  One Good Turn

  Chris Ryan

  The Perfect Holiday

  Cathy Kelly

  The Perfect Murder

  Peter James

  Quantum of Tweed: The Man with the Nissan Micra

  Conn Iggulden

  Raw Voices: True Stories of Hardship and Hope

  Vanessa Feltz

  Reading My Arse!

  Ricky Tomlinson

  Rules for Dating a Romantic Hero

  Harriet Evans

  A Sea Change

  Veronica Henry

  Star Sullivan

  Maeve Binchy

  Strangers on the 16:02

  Priya Basil

  Survive the Worst and Aim for the Best

  Kerry Katona

  The 10 Keys to Success

  John Bird

  Tackling Life

  Charlie Oatway

  Today Everything Changes

  AndyMcNab

  Traitors of the Tower

  Alison Weir

  Trouble on the Heath

  Terry Jones

  Twenty Tales from the War Zone

  John Simpson

  We Won the Lottery

  Danny Buckland

  Wrong Time, Wrong Place

  Simon Kernick

  Praise for Jeffrey Archer’s novels

  ‘If there was a Nobel prize for storytelling, Archer would win’

  Daily Telegraph

  ‘Probably the greatest storyteller of our age’

  Mail on Sunday

  ‘The man’s a genius . . . the strength and excitement of the idea carries all before it’

  Evening Standard

  ‘A storyteller in the class of Alexandre Dumas’

  Washington Post

  ‘Archer has a gift for storytelling that can only be described as genius’

  Daily Telegraph

  ‘Back in top form . . . Archer’s imagination at its most sublime . . . an entertaining, pacey page-turner’

  Sunday Times

  ‘Few are more famous than Archer for keeping the pages turning . . . an extravagant romp – possibly his best’

  The Times

  Praise for Jeffrey Archer’s short stories

  ‘Jeffrey Archer plays a subtle cat-and-mouse game with the reader in twelve original short stories that end, more often than not, with our collective whiskers twitching in surprise’

  New York Times

  ‘Stylish, witty and constantly entertaining . . . Jeffrey Archer has a natural aptitude for short stories’

  The Times

  ‘Archer hits the bull’s eye with an exemplary collection’

  Daily Mail

  ‘The economy and precision of Archer’s prose never fails to delight. The criminal doesn’t always get away with his crime and justice doesn’t always prevail, but the reader wins with each and every story’

  Publishers Weekly

  ‘Outstanding . . . white-knuckle suspense . . . [An] enjoyable, suspense-filled rival to Roald Dahl’

  Daily Express

  Four Warned

  JEFFREY ARCHER, whose novels and short stories include Kane and Abel, A Prisoner of Birth and Cat O’ Nine Tales, has topped the bestseller lists around the world, with sales of over 270 million copies.

  He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (fifteen times), short stories (three times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).

  The author is married with two sons and lives in London and Cambridge.

  www.jeffreyarcher.com

  Facebook.com/JeffreyArcherAuthor

  @Jeffrey_Archer

  Also by JEFFREY ARCHER

  NOVELS

  Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

  Shall We Tell the President?

  Kane and Abel The Prodigal Daughter

  First Among Equals A Matter of Honour

  As the Crow Flies Honour Among Thieves

  The Fourth Estate The Eleventh Commandment

  Sons of Fortune False Impression

  The Gospel According to Judas

  (with the assistance of Professor Francis J. Moloney)

  A Prisoner of Birth Paths of Glory

  Only Time Will Tell The Sins of the Father

  Best Kept Secret

  SHORT STORIES

  A Quiver Full of Arrows A Twist in the Tale

  Twelve Red Herrings The Collected Short Stories

  To Cut a Long Story Short Cat O’ Nine Tales

  And Thereby Hangs a Tale

  PLAYS

  Beyond Reasonable Doubt Exclusive The Accused

  PRISON DIARIES

  Volume One – Belmarsh: Hell

  Volume Two – Wayland: Purgatory

  Volume Three – North Sea Camp: Heaven

  SCREENPLAYS

  Mallory: Walking Off the Map False Impression

  ‘Never Stop on the Motorway’

  first published 1994 in Twelve Red Herrings by HarperCollins Publishers

  First published by Pan Books 2004

  ‘The Queen’s Birthday Telegram’

  first published 2010 by Macmillan in And Thereby Hangs a Tale

  First published by Pan Books 2010

  ‘Stuck on You’ first published 2010 by Macmillan in And Thereby Hangs a Tale

  First published by Pan Books 2010

  ‘Don’t Drink the Water’ first published 2007 in Cat O’ Nine Tales by Macmillan

  First published by Pan Books 2007

  This electronic edition published 2013 by Pan Macmillan

  an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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  Basingstoke and Oxford

  Associated companies throughout the world

  www.panmacmillan.com

  ISBN 978-1-4472-5249-8

  Copyright © Jeffrey Archer 1994, 2007, 2010

  This collection copyright © Jeffrey Archer 2014

  The right of Jeffrey Archer to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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