Sir Nicholas slowly teaches Danny to read and to write. Meanwhile, outside the prison, Beth is pregnant with Danny's daughter. Sentenced to 22 years in Belmarsh prison, the highest security jail in South-east London, United Kingdom, he encounters his two cellmates, Albert Crann, known as "Big Al," and Sir Nicholas Moncrieff. Danny is blamed for his murder in a well-orchestrated plot by Spencer (a barrister) and his friends: a popular actor, an aristocrat, and a young estate agent. Danny, Beth and Bernie attempt to leave the pub without getting involved in a fracas, but Spencer Craig, one of the four that confronted them, follows them out of the pub along with his friends.Ī fight breaks out Bernie is stabbed and dies. In the pub, they are accosted by four people. Plot summary Īfter proposing to his childhood sweetheart Beth Wilson, Danny Cartwright takes her and her brother Bernie to celebrate at a nearby pub. The novel saw Archer return to the first place in the fiction best-seller list for the first time in a decade. This book is a contemporary retelling of Dumas's 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo. A Prisoner of Birth is a mystery novel by English author Jeffrey Archer, first published on 6 March 2008 by Macmillan.
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