Best-selling author Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86
Lord Jeffrey Archer, best-selling British author of Kane and Abel and former Conservative MP, has died aged 86 at his home between writing sessions. His final book, Adam and Eve, will be released tomorrow. Archer's life included a successful writing career that began to pay off debts, a political scandal that forced his resignation from Parliament under Margaret Thatcher, and a two-year prison sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
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