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Lee Child

Lee Child

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Lee Child

Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series. Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment. The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012. Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born. Lee spends his spare time reading, listening to music, and watching the Yankees, Aston Villa, or Marseilles soccer. He is married with a grown-up daughter. He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise.

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Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series. Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment. The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012. Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born. Lee spends his spare time reading, listening to music, and watching the Yankees, Aston Villa, or Marseilles soccer. He is married with a grown-up daughter. He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise.


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Never Go Back

Lee Child

‘It's said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds...

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Killing Floor (Jack Reacher)

Lee Child

Ex-MP Jack Reacher goes into action to find his brother's killers...

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One Shot (Jack Reacher)

Lee, Editor/Steve Child

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But...

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Die Trying (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child New York Times Bestselling Author

When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the...

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Without Fail (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child

Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to...

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Tripwire (Jack Reacher)

Lee Child

Jack Reacher, ex-military policeman relaxed in Key West until Costello...

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Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher, #15)

Lee Child

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Compulsively readable.”—The Wall Street...

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Running Blind (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child

Women are being murdered nationwide by a killer who leaves no trace of...

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The Affair: (Jack Reacher 16)

Lee Child

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing,...

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Gone Tomorrow: (Jack Reacher 13)

Lee Child

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale...

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Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child

From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent...

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61 Hours (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child

61 Hours It's winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired...

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The Enemy (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child

Former army cop Jack Reacher finds himself questioning the instincts that...

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Echo Burning (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child

While hitchhiking through West Texas, former MP Jack Reacher encounters a...

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Persuader (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee, Editor/Steve Child

Jack Reacher takes an undercover assignment to investigate the...

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The Hard Way (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child

In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, ex-military cop Reacher sees...

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A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child

Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving,...

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Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

Lee Child

A latest novel of suspense by the best-selling author of Worth Dying For...

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Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child

Arriving in the small town of Despair, Colorado, Jack Reacher finds himself...

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Personal (Jack Reacher Novels)

Lee Child

Jack Reacher finds himself working for the State Department and the CIA to...

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High Heat (Jack Reacher, #17.5)

Lee Child

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Thriller master Lee Child returns with an...

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Killing Floor / Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #1-2)

Lee Child

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Jack Reacher's Rules

Lee Child

Title: Jack Reacher's Rules Binding: Hardcover Author: LeeChild...

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First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors

International Thriller Writers

An anthology of twenty-five previously unpublished works includes...

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Small Wars: (The new Jack Reacher short story) (Kindle Single)

Lee Child

In this ebook short story, also available in the new, complete Jack...

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Make Me: (Jack Reacher 20)

Lee Child

Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get...

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Killer Year: Stories to Die For. from the Hottest New Crime Writers

Lee Child

Some of the rising stars in the crime, suspense, and mystery genres reveal...


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