# Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86. He enjoyed a successful career as a novelist, selling over 300 million copies worldwide, including the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel. Archer’s political career started in 1967, and he was a Conservative member of Parliament for five years before serving as the party’s deputy chairman. He was imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice in 2001 and was released in 2003. Archer’s final novel, Adam And Eve, is due to be published today.
Bestselling author and politician Jeffrey Archer dies at 86