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Goodreads asked Jeffrey Archer:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jeffrey Archer My new book, Next in Line, will be published worldwide in September 2022 and is the fifth William Warwick novel, featuring Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick.

My plan is to take William through eight books and eight ranks. I started the series with Nothing Ventured with William Warwick as a constable on the beat in London, and the aim is for him to end up as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

So in each book he’s a different rank and has to tackle a different set of crimes including art theft, drugs, and murder.

In Next in Line, William and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the elite Royalty Protection Command. But it soon becomes clear the problems in Royalty Protection are just the beginning.

A renegade organisation has the security of the country – and the crown – in its sights.

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