He specialises in military adventures and spy thrillers and created the character Sam Packer.
Geoffrey Archer was born and grew up in north London and had an interest in fiction and drama from an early age.
[2] After several false starts in his choice of career, Geoffrey Archer moved into journalism.
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.
[citation needed] In 1995 Archer left ITN to concentrate on writing full-time.