Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction

by Michael Crick (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $4.61

  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 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 biography reveals, with completely up-to-date information, the fantastic tales behind Archer's unquenchable ambition.

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  Paperback
  

  $6.36

  The book William Hague refused to read but now wishes he had. Michael Crick's widely praised biography of the extraordinarily invented life of Jeffrey Archer, fabulist, politician, fundraiser, and fibber on a grand scale. In the words of his wife, the fragrant Mary, Jeffrey Archer has ' a genius for inaccurate precis', which from one who knows him best is a pretty concise and damning summary. Here, Michael Crick tells the life story of a great adventurer and fantasist. Jeffrey Archer's version of his past is scrupulously examined and every inaccuracy corrected. From his Oxford Blue to his brief days as a policeman, from his share dealings in Anglia Television to his extraordinary association with Monica Coghlan, a prostitute who, according to Archer, he paid not to have sex with him. As Archer's political career implodes with yet another falsehood plastered across the press, Michael Crick's classic biography of a political life at the end of the century is more than ever required reading. This is Archer, warts -- well, smooth shoulders, spots or hairy back according to your sources -- and all. Here lies Jeffrey Archer.

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.46

  This is a biography of Jeffrey Archer - a man of overwhelming ambition. After Oxford - where he never got a degree - he set up a hugely successful fund raising operation. MP at 29, bankrupt at 34, he had to resign his seat. Then he began his career as a novelist, with Thatcher the political comeback and Deputy Chairmanship of the Conservative Party. Then brought low again, this time by Monica Coghlan in 1986.