Exasperating to his friends, infuriating to his foes, but entertaining to the end: Jeffrey Archer's outrageous life saw him survive prison with help from a murderer and amass a £200m fortune

Daily Mail - Oct 6, 2026

By the time of his death yesterday, Jeffrey Archer had not only sold more than 320million books, but lived a life more curious, colourful and outrageous than any he could have concocted on the page.

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