Geoffrey Archer (writer)

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Geoffrey Archer (1944) is a fiction writer from London. He specialises in military adventures and spy thrillers and created the character .

Career[]

Geoffrey Archer was born and grew up in north London and had an interest in fiction and drama from an early age.^[1]

After several false starts in his choice of career, Geoffrey Archer moved into journalism. He started with a local television station in Southampton as a trainee researcher, then moved first to Anglia TV in Norwich and then to Tyne-Tees TV in Newcastle as an on-screen journalist. He started as a reporter with ITN in 1969. He covered the troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and the civil war in Beirut in 1976, was allowed to travel with a Polaris nuclear submarine, and eventually became Defence Correspondent for ITN. These experiences prompted him to begin writing stories with military and spy themes.^{[citation needed]}

In 1995 Archer left ITN to concentrate on writing full-time. In 1998 his novel Fire Hawk was short-listed for the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award.^{[citation needed]}

Books[]

• 1988 – Sky Dancer
• 1989 – Shadow Hunter
• 1993 – Eagle Trap
• 1995 – Scorpion Trail
• 1997 – Java Spider
• 1998 – Fire Hawk
• 2001 – The Lucifer Network
• 2002 – The Burma Legacy
• 2004 – Dark Angel

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Brockes, Emma (23 July 2001). "Archer: the interview". The Guardian .

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