Best-selling British author and former Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer has died aged 86, Le Monde reported with AFP.
Jeffrey Archer, the British novelist and former Conservative politician, has died aged 86, Le Monde reported with AFP early on Tuesday. The paper said his novels sold more than 300 million copies.
Archer had hoped to become mayor of London. Le Monde said several scandals ended his political career. The Economic Times noted he had said he would live to 86 a year before his death and that he had described a final book on the rivalry of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.
Cause of death, place and family statements were not in the dispatches used here and are omitted.
The obituary is a culture story centred on a British public figure, separate from same-day UK diplomatic notes about Israel that were not fully verified for this file.
Further confirmation from a British broadsheet obituary was not in the sources opened for this hour.