JEFFREY ARCHER was educated at Oxford University. He served five years as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons and has served twenty-seven years as a Member of the House of Lords. Now published in 97 countries and more than 37 languages, all of his novels and short story collections—including Kane & Abel, Only Time Will Tell and This Was a Man—have been international bestsellers. Jeffrey is married with two sons and three grandchildren, and lives in London, Cambridge and Majorca.

PAUL COX studied illustration at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Since his graduation in 1982 he has worked as a freelance illustrator and painter, involving himself in an extraordinary number and variety of projects including a 50th anniversary version of Gerald Durrell’s classic My Family and Other Animals. Readers of newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic will instantly recognize his wonderfully fresh images from the Daily Telegraph, Country Life, The Spectator, Sunday Times Magazine, Punch, The Times, Blueprint magazine, Vanity Fair and Esquire. His work is frequently exhibited at the Chris Beetles gallery in London, and Paul has built up a wide following for his unique and rhythmical style.