Jeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers

In a life of achievement and disgrace, he wrote best-selling novels with themes he knew intimately: ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal. 

  

  "A photograph from the era showed him with the Beatles, whose members he had persuaded to endorse a campaign by visiting Brasenose College. The drummer, Ringo Starr, was widely quoted as describing him as “a nice enough fella, but he’s the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss and sell it.”"

 read obit by Alan Cowell