Jim has been dispensing my Christmas books like an advent calendar so I have started on a Jeffery Archer, Honour Among Thieves. I wouldn't normally be interested in reading him but we watched The Dame Edna Experience on a DVD recently and he was a guest on her "talk show". He seemed like an interesting guy and he certainly has had an interesting life.
I have just started it and so far it's fairly interesting. Time will tell.
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist and politician.
Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament (1969–1974), but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left him almost bankrupt.[2] He revived his fortunes as a best-selling novelist; his books have sold around 330 million copies worldwide.[3]
Archer became deputy chairman of the Conservative Party (1985–1986) before resigning after a newspaper accused him of paying money to a prostitute. In 1987 he won a court case and was awarded large damages because of this claim.[4] He was made a life peerin 1992 and subsequently became Conservative candidate to be the first elected Mayor of London. He had to resign his candidacy in 1999 after it emerged that he had lied in his 1987 libel case. He was imprisoned (2001–2003) for perjury and perverting the course of justice, ending his elected political career.[3]
