Cometh the hour åpner med et selvmordsbrev som har ødeleggende konsekvenser for Harry og Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington og Lady Virginia. Giles må avgjøre om han skal trekke seg fra politikken og prøve å redde Karin, kvinnen han elsker. Men er Karin den hun sier hun er? Sebastian Clifton er nå administrerende direktør i Farthings Bank, men hans rivaler fortsetter sine forsøk på å skyve ham ut. Harry Clifton forsøker fremdeles å få Anatoly Babakov løslatt fra en gulag i Sibir, etter den internasjonale suksessen til hans kritikerroste bok Uncle Joe. Harrys kone Emma beviser sin nye venninne Margaret Thatcher å ta det opp med Russlands president når hun besøker Moskva. Men så skjer det noe uventet. Dette er den sjette og nest siste boka i Clifton Chronicles.
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Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings. Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe.But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated. Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the five previous novels - all of which went to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list - showcases Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists.
