Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71510 in Books
• Published on: 1996-03-08
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Synopsis
Three seemingly independent events occur one morning in London: an MP wakes up after spending the night with a woman he picked up in a bar; a tycoon meets a Bank of England official for breakfast; and a criminal briefs his crew. A journalist struggles to unravel the truth behind the three events.

Customer Reviews

Quick, easy read, lacks depth of his later works
A very quick easy page turner (286 pages but I easily read it within a single day). It lacks the depth of his later works, but as he says in the introduction to the 1987 edition, this is probably the best of his early less successful novels; for me, it's better than the Modigliani Scandal, anyway.

A fast moving 24hrs worth of entwined plots in 70's London
One of Follett's early novellas which could do without the largely apologetic preface from the great man. I enjoyed it as the pace of the story and the sheer amount of sub-plots would today be glorified and acclaimed if filmed and directed by a pseudo Guy Ritchie. Easy read - enjoy it for what it is and what became of the author subsequently.

Perfect for a short holiday trip
Having trouble finding enlish literature in o.v. in latinamerica "Paper Money" was the first book of Ken Follet as well as the first one in spanish I read. Putting aside differences that might arise through translating it I found it to be a marvelos novel, concentrating the whole plot taking place in only one day, divided into hours. In his foreword Follet says he considers this book as "his best without success" he ever wrote, stating as well that this might be because of the numerous caracters he uses in a quite complex story. For me it turned out to be a real "pageturner" and I think you should read it right this way. Beeing rather short you can get trough it in just a couple of days. My advice: Worth reading one of Follets very first works published as far back as 1976.