Liam Archer is a British-born author of psychological thrillers and crime fiction, best known for the Nacho Ortega and Dante Boudali series.
While his books pulse with the familiar beats of crime and thriller fiction, they are ultimately vehicles for exploring the darker strata of the human condition. His characters navigate a world where nothing is clean, everything has a cost, and survival often demands moral compromise. It is a brutal anatomy of corruption, moral decay, and the quiet horrors of power left unchecked.
Archer has spent significant time living across Europe, India, North Africa, and Japan, and now calls Mérida, Mexico home, where he lives with his wife and three children. These global experiences shape the atmospheric depth of his novels, infusing them with cross-cultural nuance and geopolitical texture.
A notably private individual, Archer refrains from public tours or interviews, preferring to let the work speak for itself. He also lives with Aphantasia—the inability to visualize images mentally—which lends a unique perspective to his writing process, forcing him to rely on rhythm, logic, and emotional weight rather than visual recall.
Several new titles in both series are currently in development.
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