Archer, whose books have sold 275 million copies worldwide, has been a frequent visitor to India, and often launches his books here for unusual reasons. “The day the book arrives anywhere in the world, some enterprising Indian buys a copy, flies back to India and prints it and three days later it’s on the streets and there’s nothing I can do about it,” he says. .
While he loves India, he is currently on pause from that feeling. “I will not love India for a while because we are in a fight with you on the cricket pitch,” he said, adding that he has had the privilege of meeting many Indian cricketers as he reads them, including Sunil Gavaskar. , Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. .
Archer is in the midst of writing the fifth book in his series, following the character of William Warrick. Not wanting to write just another cop or crime story, he developed an interesting idea. “I decided that my youth would join the police force as a constable on the beat. I used to write a different book every year, where he went from constable to metropolitan police commissioner,” he says. “I have four years to make him commissioner so I have to live long enough to do that.” The 81-year-old recently, along with Pan Macmillan India, published three children’s books that he had written 40 years ago for his own children.
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