Jeffrey Archer's prison frenzy

"A Prisoner of birth"-More like a prison diary than a material of fiction...
The book is a story of Daniel Cartwright. Daniel who is in love with Beth(Elizabeth Wilson) takes her to a fancy bar in London to celebrate their engagement. He also invites Bernie(Bernard Wilson), who happens to be Beth's brother and a childhood friend of Danny. They spend their evening at the same bar where Spencer Craig is celebrating his 30th birthday.
The bar then becomes platform for a melodramatic fight between Bernie and Craig. The end result of which leaves Bernie stabbed to death by Craig. Craig, being a criminal lawyer, accompanied by his friends at higher echelons of their career(who call themselves as musketeers), sets up the whole scene to implicate Danny as the accused.
The jury come up with a verdict that makes Danny land up in the Belmarsh prison. The prison is pictured to such a perfection that one might wonder if its the experience rather than imagination that helped Archer do it with such expertise...
Its just a Google away to discover that its the experience along with lots of imagination that make his book such a blockbuster. Jeffrey Archer, a leader of England's Conservative Party was found guilty of lying about his dealings with a prostitute and had been sent to prison. The high security Belmarsh Prison pictured in the book is actually the place where Archer spent his sentence after being charged of perjury.
Jeffrey adds in his book, "If every man who lies about his sex life is to be hauled off to prison, who will be left to govern us?", the true meaning of which is understood after knowing his legal difficulties.
Like most of the fictions, this book contains some miracles. Miracles which are so carefully polished that they hardly looks like one. Kudos to Mr. Archer...
In the book, Danny is put in a cell with Nick & Big Al. Nick(Sir Nicholas Moncrief), a well learned person who's in prison because, as a British Army officer in Kosovo, he took the blame when his men shot some Serbs. Big Al was his sergeant and remains his loyal friend. Nick is Danny's age, and, as we are often reminded, the two men look a great deal alike. High-minded Nick is a teacher in the prison and decides to educate Danny. Almost overnight, the illiterate mechanic(Danny) not only has learned to read and write, but also explores the higher levels of literature and finance.
One more is that when Nick is murdered inside the prison, Danny is able to switch identities with him. Nick was up for parole, and even then Danny convinces everyone he is the aristocratic Sir Nicholas and walks out of prison a free man.
Then Danny lives in a London mansion, consulting with lawyers, parole officer and some bankers.
"Act like Nick, Think like Danny", becomes the motto of Danny's life. Revenge and Re-union become his life objectives. Reevenge against the murderers, Reuniion with Beth.
Careful and tactfully Danny creates a plot that would make the musketeers come down to ashes-professionally and financially after which they one of them plead guilty in the court and are hauled off to prison.

Cynical point of view, the book is a blockbuster.
After knowing the legal difficulties that Archer faced, the melodrama of the book can be regarded a a spiritual rebirth of the author which he manages to bring out with panache.