[celticninja]

Find a torrent of the book if you really want to read it don't go giving Archer any money.

[alex_hitchins]

If you like UK slang, look up what 'An Archer' is. Still hear this used today and it never fails to make me smile.

[Joeboy]

I think this might actually be hard to google.

An archer is £2000, the amount Conservative Party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer was caught paying a prostitute to keep quiet about his allegedly being a client of hers.

I first heard this usage on The New Statesman (the Rick Mayall TV comedy), but it may have originated elsewhere.

[vixen99]

Archer has sold 330 million copies of his books and thus has no pressing need for money. That however is no excuse for encouraging someone to steal from a writer however successful. What else would you encourage people to thieve and from whom? Anyone who's been to prison?

[alex_hitchins]

I'd buy Jonathan Aitken's book... (A fellow Tory jailbird). I do believe Aitken has somewhat reformed. Archer, not so much.

Edit to say that I agree with your point that theft is theft.

[jmnicolas]

330 millions copies ? Let's say for the thought experiment that it was sold only on the European continent (including Russia), it would mean that one in two people living in Europe bought a copy.

I find it hard to believe !

[janekm]

He’s written quite a bit more than one book (over 25). Sales are >250 million according to his website. His books are practically their own genre in the UK, if second hand shops are anything to go by.

[celticninja]

He also said he raised £52 million for Iraqi Kurds a figure that KPMG said was bullshit. So I would not put too much faith in anything that he says.

[ratherbefuddled]

Not this particular novel, he has written dozens.