<p><b>The <i>Sunday Times</i> No.1 Bestseller</b><br><br><b><i>Nothing Ventured</i> is the first thrilling novel in the William Warwick series, by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and <i>Kane and Abel</i>, Jeffrey Archer.</b><br><br><b><i>This is not a detective story, this is a story about a detective.</i></b><br><br>William Warwick is eight when he decides to join the police force. Resolute in the face of his prominent QC father&rsquo;s objections, William graduates in Art History from university and immediately enrols as a constable in the Metropolitan Police.<br><br>Gaining insight from his first mentor, an experienced, world-weary constable, his keen mind quickly takes him into a role in Scotland Yard&rsquo;s Art and Antiques unit and his first case: the recovery of a Rembrandt stolen from the Fitzmolean Museum.<br><br>It will take skill and tenacity for William to solve the crime, and along the way he will encounter many who will change his life, from Miles Faulkner, a crooked art collector, and his influential lawyer &ndash; who bends the law to the point of breaking &ndash; to research assistant Beth Rainsford, a woman with secrets who he falls hopelessly in love with . . .<br><br>William Warwick&rsquo;s destiny is set, the only question is, how far will his ambition take him?<br><br><b>Thrilling, absorbing and entertaining, <i>Nothing Ventured </i>introduces a character destined to become one of Archer's most enduring legacies.<br><br>Continue the series with<i> Hidden in Plain Sight </i>and<i> Turn a Blind Eye</i>.<br><br>'Fast-paced and thrilling, with his trademark plot twists and cliff-hangers' &ndash; <i>Daily Mail</i></b></p>