Archer, Jeffrey
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1940- ) UK Conservative politician and author of many thrillers, most notorious in the early twenty-first century for his imprisonment on a count of perjury; in his Near Future sf novel, Shall We Tell the President? (1977; rev 1985), the American president who may or may not be informed of a plot against his life is Edward Kennedy, whose gun control laws are opposed vehemently. The revised edition is transformed into a sequel to The Prodigal Daughter (1982), at the end of which Florentyna Kane, newly elected American president, announces gun control legislation; she is the president in the 1985 Shall We Tell the President? who is under threat. [JC]
The Right Honourable Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare
born London: 15 April 1940
works (highly selected)
- Shall We Tell the President? (London: Jonathan Cape, 1977) [hb/Bill Botten]
- Shall We Tell the President? (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985) [rev of above to create a sequel to The Prodigal Daughter: hb/]
- The Prodigal Daughter (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982) [hb/]
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