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    <body><![CDATA[As  a friend very rightly put it…<strong>’A Prisoner of Birth’</strong>  has all the makings of a Bollywood Masala Movie.<br/><br/><strong>Danny Cartwright</strong>, a humble East-End mechanic has just proposed to his childhood sweet heart Beth. He decides to celebrate by treating his fiancée and best-friend <strong>Bernie Wilson</strong> (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32157886">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well its hard to meet the readers' expectations if your first few books are &quot;Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less&quot;, &quot;Kane and Abel&quot; &amp; &quot;As the Crow Flies&quot;.<br/><br/>I felt that though the plot is not something that would make one say ... wow! now that's a new one.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23096161">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting story that pulled heavily from The Count of Monte Cristo.  Still, it was entertaining, even if it wasn't an edge of your seat thriller.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson on any other day, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the prosecution witnesses happen to be a group of four upper-crust college friends—a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm’s history—who is going to believe Danny’s side of the story?</strong><br/><br/><p>Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. But Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny’s determination to seek revenge and the extent to which his fiancée Beth will go in pursuit of justice.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This seems to be a direct rewrite/resetting of &quot;The Count of Monte Christo&quot;? I have not read that book in a long time, but have noticed it appearing as a device in a bunch of movies and such. The trapped character reads that story, dreams of revenge, and so on. I like vengeance! The Count ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50166399">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Audiobook read by Roger Allum - The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books of all time. I re-read it every couple years, and if I stumble across a movie version on television, I am powerless to not watch it, no matter how many times I've seen that version before (or how bad the adaptation...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47677264">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting spin on the <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em>.  I found the characters interesting and likable.  While you definitely felt compelled to root for the the main character, Danny, my favorite characters were Nick and Sir Matthew.  Some of the plot devices were definitely a bit contrived....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43197649">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i didn't like it much. Not sure why I picked it up...other than to ward off the lack of book situation that could happen over the holidays.<br/><br/>I was shocked to see all the 4- and 5-star ratings for this one, and so I looked to see if anyone liked it as little as I did, saw one and looked at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80583217">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book!  It was intriguing from the first page to the last.  I wasn't bored, or disappointed in any way!  I felt that the author incorporated every character in a meaningful way, each had a very important role to play.  There wasn't a lot of filler, and I felt that all the information...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42313384">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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