Jeffrey Archer
I wasn’t really very happy with “Cometh the Hour” because I felt the author was stretching the series. I was afraid whether that would mean that the series would end with a whimper. Thankfully it didn’t. This was a fitting finale to The Clifton Chronicles.
I think it’s only when you see the series as a whole do you understand the kind of changes that have happened in the world through the lifetime of Harry Clifton. In that sense, it is a great lens to see the changing nature of society – its behavior, consumption, worldview and so on. While the author has done his best to show a changing order and system of the world, the bias to an old world charm is obvious. Perhaps an indication of how he’d have liked it to be. (more…)