Author and former UK politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86
Author and former UK politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86.
Archer sold more than 300 million books in his five-decade writing career.
His publisher Harper Collins says the author died suddenly and peacefully at home.
The former Conservative MP was jailed for perjury in 2001 after being found guilty of lying and cheating in his 1987 defamation case against the Daily Star.
His last book, Adam and Eve, is set to be released this month.
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