Word: archers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Archer, who is married and has two sons, maintained that he had never met Coghlan, much less had a relationship with her. "Foolishly, as I now realize, I allowed myself to fall into what I can only call a trap," he said in a statement. He admitted, however, that he had been telephoned by a woman calling herself Debbie, who later turned out to be Coghlan. She said a client of hers was telling people that she and Archer had "had an association." In later calls Coghlan said she was being hounded by reporters about the purported liaison...
...fact, this is an episode in Jeffrey Archer's First Among Equals, a 1984 best seller. But if truth is often stranger than fiction, there are also fewer happy endings. So it was for Archer, 46, deputy chairman of the Conservative ! Party and the author of six top-selling novels, including Kane and Abel and the current best seller A Matter of Honor. Last week the Sunday News of the World (circ. 4.8 million) carried a five-page story claiming that Archer had offered Prostitute Monica Coghlan (pounds)2,000 ($2,800) to pay for a trip abroad to avoid...
...scandal-loving British press was gleeful, especially the News of the World. Its story included transcripts of phone conversations that had Archer suggesting that Coghlan wear a green leather suit and meet a friend of his at London's Victoria Station. After accepting an envelope stuffed with (pounds)50 notes in view of a long-lens camera, however, the woman returned it, telling both Archer's envoy and a hidden microphone, "I can't keep running...
...vicissitudes of Archer's life have already been put to use in his novels. An Oxford student who in 1969 became the youngest Member of Parliament, at age 29, he had to resign five years later after bad investments left him near bankruptcy. He turned to writing, and loosely based his first novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, on his experience. A main character in First Among Equals, who becomes Prime Minister in the considerably altered U.S. version, also suffers severe financial reverses...
...time of Kane and Abel (1979), Archer was out of debt and into fame. That brought him to the attention of Thatcher, who liked his novels and comeback success story. She tapped him for the party post, where he drew good crowds on the political circuit...