傑弗裏·霍華德·阿切爾（1940年－），Weston-super-Mare男爵，英國政治傢、作傢。齣生於倫敦，曾在牛津大學就讀，有著傳奇的人生經曆。1969年代錶保守黨當選英國最年輕的下議院議員，1985年被撒切爾夫人任命為保守黨副主席，後因醜聞退齣政壇。也曾親曆監獄生活，是世界上作品最暢銷的作傢之一，幾乎每一部作品都暢銷整個英語世界。曾11次榮登《星期日泰晤士報》暢銷作者排名榜第一位。截至2000年，他的小說在全球銷售量已超過1.2億冊。

The "Clifton Chronicles" is Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, 'I was told that my father was killed in the war'. But it will be another twenty years before Harry discovers how his father really died, which will only lead him to question: who was his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who worked in Bristol docks, or the first born son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? "Only Time Will Tell" covers the years from 1920 to 1940, and includes a cast of memorable characters that "The Times" has compared to "The Forsyte Saga". Volume one takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford, or join the navy and go to war with Hitler's Germany. In Jeffrey Archer's masterful hands, the reader is taken on a journey that they won't want to end, and when you turn the last page of this unforgettable yarn, you will be faced with a dilemma that neither you, nor Harry Clifton could have anticipated.