Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1976) (edit title/settings)

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• Harvey Metcalfe: The wealthy buissnessman
• Stephen Bradely: American Professor at Oxford University, UK
• Dr. Robin Oakley: Physician
• Jean-Pierre Lamanns: French art dealer
• James Brigsley: An Earl from London
• Anne Summerton: Model and love interest of James Brigsley
• David Kesler: The 'fall guy' ,disappers without trace a minor role
• Rosalie Metcalfe: Harvey Metcalfe's daught
• Bernie Silverman: minor role .helps cheating, is paid by 'the bigger fish'
• Roger: .
• Porter: .
• anonymous: Making a million legally has been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.
• Arlene: Harvey's wife
• Jorg: Add a description of this character.
• Wiley Barker
• Richard Elliott
• Monsieur
• Albert
• Patrick
• Doctor Barker
• Mr. Habakkuk
• Lester Piggott
• Henry Moore
• Lincoln
• Stein
• Harold Macmillan
• Jamie clark: Harvey Metcalfe young assistant

Quotes edit see section history

• “It is only the shrimps who survive among the sharks.”

• “Henryk had discovered that the whole world was a jungle —sometimes the lions and tigers wore suits.”

• “But the game isn’t a new one, and this time its been played by an old pro, a very cunning old pro.”

  Mr. Inspector

• “Made himself a multi-millionaire and a lot of other people bankrupt on the way. His style is so professional and predictable now we can smell the man a mile off.”

  Mr. Inspector

• “the millionaires are just a little fatter, and the mistresses are just little thinner.”

  Lord Clarendon

• “Cleared more money in two months of crime than he had in ten years of legitimate trading.”

  Jean-Pierre

• “If anything pleased him more than his own success, it was other peoples failure.”

  Harvey

• “If Harvey Metcalfe had ever had a tem like this on his side instead of against him, he would have been richest man in the world.”

  Stephen

• “Stephen, Robin and Jean-Pierre followed some twenty minutes later, still arguing the pros and cons of breading the lion in his own den.”

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• impecunity. The money problem was solving itself, so he decided the time had come to expunge the other two. To that end, he had made an application to change his name

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• “c‘est magnifique mais ce n’est pas la gare.”

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• the whole world was a jungle—sometimes the lions and tigers wore suits.

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• MAKING A MILLION legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

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• good fortune and enjoyed life, at the same time being, he had to confess, a little

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• the guidance of Harvey’s chief executive in Britain, Bernie Silverman, who,

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• Little Henryk never believed for one moment that the best things in life were free, and the pursuit of money and power came as naturally to him as the pursuit of a mouse to a cat.

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• Harvey Metcalfe realized that the last instruction was unnecessary.

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• Stephen Bradley had bought 40,000 shares at $6.10 Dr. Robin Oakley had bought 35,000 shares at $7.23 Jean-Pierre Lamanns had bought 25,000 shares at $7.80 James Brigsley had bought 35,000 shares at $8.80 David Kesler himself had bought 500 shares at $7.25.

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• Aristotle Onassis said—if you can count it, you haven’t got any.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London
• Oxford
• England
• New York
• Boston
• Monte Carlo
• Harley Street
• America
• Europe
• Dorchester
• North Sea
• Bond Street
• Ascot
• Clarendon
• Harvard
• Encaenia
• Lord Brigsley
• Hotel De Paris
• Zurich
• States
• St. Thomas
• Massachusetts
• Heathrow
• Cambridge
• France
• Waldorf-astoria
• Washington

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Honor and Deciet: Describe this theme.
• Money and Greed

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Jeffrey Archer (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 813

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( A ) › Archer, Jeffrey
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Psychological & Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary