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Jeffrey Archer was a British writer and politician who was a Member of Parliament before the age of 30 and one of Margaret Thatcher's favorites in the Tory Party in the 1970s and 80s. He resigned as deputy party chairman after a sex scandal in 1986 and was sentenced in 2001 to four years in prison for perjury and trying to influence the outcome of a trial.
The author died "unexpectedly and peacefully at home", according to his publisher, the day before his latest book, "Adam and Eve", was to be published.
Jeffrey Archer was a politician from the beginning, a Member of Parliament before he turned 30 and one of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's favorites in the British Tory Party in the 1970s and 80s. But he was forced to resign as deputy party chairman after a sex scandal in 1986. Just over a decade earlier, Archer had been forced to leave the House of Commons after a failed investment left him heavily in debt.
But Archer used that experience to write the novel "Precis på öret" (1976), which became his debut novel. The big breakthrough came with the political thriller "The Rivals", which gave Archer a large audience in Sweden as well. Both novels were made into popular television series.
While he continued to publish novels, Archer's life was surrounded by several scandals. Archer was sentenced in 2001 to four years in prison for perjury and for improperly trying to influence the outcome of a trial, for his actions in connection with a defamation case in 1987, when a newspaper claimed that he had sex with a prostitute.
Archer stated in 2014 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Jeffrey Archer was 87 years old.

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