Mary Archer calls it his gift for inaccurate precis; friends say he embroiders; to others he's simply a liar. Whatever you think of Jeffrey Archer, you'll be gripped by this story of energy and ambition, ruthlessness and riches, power and sex. Here, Michael Crick unravels the mysteries of Archer's past - from his fraudster father to Archer's days as a policeman and his arrest for shoplifting. He charts Archer's huge success as a writer and his fame as a politician, party-giver, and would-be mayor of London, and he introduces the many women in Archer's life - the prostitutes, the mistresses and his wife Mary. This biography reveals, with completely up-to-date information, the fantastic tales behind Archer's unquenchable ambition.