by Jon Lackman | 7 April 2006 | Career
Jeffrey Archer’s latest novel, False Impression, stars Anna Petrescu. “Smuggled out of Romania to escape the brutal regime of President Ceausescu at 17, she quickly masters [the] English language and after high school wins a scholarship to Williams University in Massachusetts to study art history, a subject she pursues for a Ph.D. even while shining as a top class athlete … Her scholastic brilliance … she has a photographic memory and can recall every painting she has ever seen in detail … [and] her fitness regimen which she follows religiously and her honesty [help her pull] off a remarkable coup, upsetting the calculations of her arch enemy and his gymnastic assassin.”
