The Sins of the Father is the second of the seven parts of the Clifton Chronicles by British author Jeffrey Archer.

[1] Harry Clifton has joined the American Navy and has assumed the identity of Tom Bradshaw after his ship sinks in order to solve some of his problems, never knowing that he will end up in prison to serve Bradshaw's sentence for desertion.

After hard work, he ends up as the prison librarian and begins writing The Diary of a Convict.

She works on Kansas Star, the ship in which Harry was saved, and from there, she gets to know about the people Tom Bradshaw was with in his last moments.

When one of his fellow inmates, Max Lloyd, is released, he requests Harry to keep sending him diaries as he enjoys reading them a lot.

Emma seeks the help of her Great-aunt Phyllis in New York and her son Alistair who is a lawyer.

The last scene in the book is of the House Of Lords adjourning as the resultant vote had been drawn; the book ends with a cliffhanger as the Lord Chancellor announces that he would present his judgment as to who will receive the Barrington fortune the next morning.