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Kane & Abel

by Jeffrey Archer

Kane and Abel is a 1979 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer. Released in the United Kingdom in 1979 and in the United States in February 1980, the book was an international success. It reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. The sequel to Kane and Abel is The Prodigal Daughter, in which Florentyna Kane is the protagonist. Kane & Abel is among the top 100 best-selling books in the world, with a similar number of copies sold as To Kill a Mockingbird and Gone with the Wind. In 2003, Kane and Abel was listed at number 96 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. ---------- Contains: [Kane & Abel: 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17850605W/Kane_Abel._1_2) Contained in: [Kane & Abel / Sons of Fortune](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16059135W/Kane_Abel_Sons_of_Fortune) [Novels (Kane & Abel / Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less / Prodigal Daughter) ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1807061W) [Kane and Abel / The Prodigal Daughter / Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less / A Quiver Full of Arrows ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23860505W)

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?