Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction - Tapa blanda

The book William Hague was mad to ignore. Completely updated, acclaimed biography of the extraordinary life of Jeffrey Archer – politician, fundraiser and storyteller.

Mary Archer calls it his "gift for inaccurate precis"; friends say he "embroiders"; to others he’s simply a liar. Whatever you think of Jeffrey Archer, you’ll be gripped by this fantastic story of energy and ambition, ruthlessness and riches, power and sex. Here, Michael Crick unravels the mysteries of Archer’s past – from his fraudster father to Archer’s days as a policeman and his arrest for shoplifting. He charts Archer’s huge success as a writer and his fame as a politician, party-giver, and would-be mayor of London, and he introduces the many women in Archer’s life – the prostitutes, the mistresses and his wife Mary. This classic biography reveals, with completely up-to-date information, the fascinating and fantastic tales behind Archer’s unquenchable ambition.

The book William Hague ignored but now wishes he had not. Jeffrey Archer's life is a carnival of risk, bluff and naked ambition, all twisted by – in the words of his wife Mary – Archer's 'gift for inaccurate precis'. This brilliant biography lays bare the facts behind Archer's rise, fall, rise and fall again. It has been completely revised since revelations of Archer's procurement of a false alibi to support his libel action against the Daily Star and News of the World brought a swift end to his mayoral ambitions.

Michael Crick is a biographer, writer and journalist. He has worked for Newsnight, a range of national newspapers and his biographies of Michael Heseltine and Jeffrey Archer have been widely and very favourably reviewed. In the words of Adam Raphael, 'once he [Crick] has got his teeth into something he's determined to find out the truth'.