Book Review:Kane and Abel

This story by Jeffrey Archer is the start of a series of book with the main characters being Abel Rosnovski,William Lowell Kane and Henry Osborne. This story is about two man, one Polish and one American, from totally opposite backgrounds. William Kane had inherited a bank from his deceased father who died in the Titanic while Abel had inherited a castle from his father,a baron, but it was destroyed. Subsequently, he took over a hotel group known as the Richmond Group, consisting of 11 hotels. Henry Osborne was a unemployed man who was in search of a spouse when he met William's mother, Anne. He then married Anne and made Anne pregnant. He then slowly drawed on Anne's inheritance of 500.000 dollars to fund his outings with his friends, claiming them to be discussions with potential customers of his made-up company.William found out and kicked him out of the house, but not before Anne passed away. William then grew up and took over the bank of his closest friend's father, Lester bank, while Abel developed the renamed Baron Group into a hotel empire,both parties trying hard to topple each other from their seat. After Henry Osborne convinced Abel of William's guilt, Abel made use of Henry Osborne to destroy William.

I believe that this novel shows something very important that students fail to see. In our environment,we see that life is easy, that repenting helps to erase your mistakes, but this as a sheltered and enclosed environment, where there are mostly students and therefore minimal contact with the real world. In the world out there, people are not what it seems, not as trustworthy as friends. In Kane and Abel, a truth sets in, that a dispute had come between Kane and Abel, but Henry Osborne had made them enemies to feed his hatred towards Kane for kicking him out of the house. This shows that the world is not so simple, and that simply being ignorant about the outside world is not an option, and if you realise it late,it might be too late to do anything.