傑弗裏•阿切爾是世界上作品最暢銷的作傢之一。

同時，傑弗裏•阿切爾還有非常傳奇的個人經曆，他曾經在政治上輝煌一時，又曾親曆四年的牢獄生涯，1992年女王誕辰紀念日，阿切爾還受封為爵位不能世襲的終身貴族，本身就可謂就是一個傳奇人物，也是英國國內的一個明星作傢。

傑弗裏•阿切爾生於1940年。迄今為止，他已經有25部作品齣版，纍積銷量超過1.3億。他曾11次榮登《星期日泰晤士報》暢銷作者排名榜第一位，他的作品為他帶來瞭巨大的經濟收益和聲譽。

事實上，《華盛頓郵報》稱他為“可以與亞曆山大•大仲馬相提並論的敘事者”，《星期日郵報》則評價他為“我們這個時代最偉大的敘事者和小說傢。”

If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson on any other day, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the prosecution witnesses happen to be a group of four upper-crust college friends—a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm’s history—who is going to believe Danny’s side of the story? Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. But Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny’s determination to seek revenge—and the extent to which his fiancée Beth will go in pursuit of justice.