Jeffrey Archer was educated at Oxford University. He has served five years in Britain's House of Commons, fourteen years in the House of Lords and two in Her Majesty's prisons, which spawned three volumes of highly acclaimed Prison Diaries. All of his novels and short story collections--including Kane and Abel, Honor Among Thieves, and Sons of Fortune--have been international bestsellers, selling over 130 million copies worldwide. False Impression, his most recent novel, was an international No. 1 bestseller. Archer is married with two children, and lives in London and Cambridge.