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Read by: Scott Brick
Series: The Jack Reacher Series
Running Time: 9 hours 15 mins
Categories: Thriller; Action
Released: October 2021
Media: mp3 CD; Unabridged
ISBN: 9780593452745
James Dover Grant CBE (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. His first novel, Killing Floor (1997), won both the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel.
After being made redundant from his job because of corporate restructuring, Grant decided to start writing novels, stating they are "the purest form of entertainment." In 1997, his first novel, Killing Floor, was published, and he moved to the United States in the summer of 1998. He starts each new book of the series on an anniversary of his starting the first book after losing his job.
His pen name "Lee" comes from a family joke about a heard mispronunciation of the name of Renault's Le Car, as "Lee Car". Calling anything "Lee" became a family gag. His daughter, Ruth, was "lee child".
"Child" places his books alphabetically on bookstore and library shelves between crime fiction greats Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie. Grant has said that he chose the name Reacher for the central character in his novels because he himself is tall and when they were grocery shopping his wife Jane remarked: "'Hey, if this writing thing doesn't pan out, you could always be a reacher in a supermarket.' ... 'I thought, Reacher – good name.'"
Some books in the Jack Reacher series are written in the first person, while others are written in the third person. Grant has characterised the books as revenge stories – "Somebody does a very bad thing, and Reacher takes revenge" – driven by his anger at the downsizing at Granada. Although English, he deliberately chose to write American-style thrillers. In 2007, Grant collaborated with 14 other writers to create the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript, narrated by Alfred Molina. This was broadcast weekly on Audible.com between 25 September 2007 and 13 November 2007.
Grant was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America in 2009. Grant was the Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival in 2018, part of the Harrogate International Festivals portfolio.
In 2019, it was announced that Child would be curating a new TV show called Lee Child: True Crime. The show will dramatise real-life crime stories from around the world and focus on average people who go to extraordinary lengths to fight crime or seek justice.
In January 2020, Child announced that he would be retiring from writing the Jack Reacher book series, and hand it to his brother Andrew Grant, who would write further books of the series under the surname Child. He intended to write the next few books together with Grant before passing the series entirely over to him. As it now stands, there are 26 completed novels in the Jack Reacher Series.#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BLOCKBUSTER JACK REACHER SERIES THAT INSPIRED TWO MAJOR MOTION PICTURES AND THE STREAMING SERIES REACHER
Jack
Reacher is back! The series continues as acclaimed author Lee Child
teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow thriller writer
extraordinaire.
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there.
One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee. But there’s nothing pleasant about the place.
In
broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. “It
was four against one” . . . so Reacher intervenes, with his own
trademark brand of conflict resolution.
The man he saves is Rusty
Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently fired after a
cyber attack locked up the town’s data, records, information . . . and
secrets. Rutherford wants to stay put, look innocent, and clear his
name. Reacher is intrigued.
There’s more to the story ...
The
bad guys who jumped Rutherford are part of something serious and
deadly, involving a conspiracy, a cover-up, and murder — all centered on
a mousy little guy in a coffee-stained shirt who has no idea what he’s
up against.
Rule one: if you don’t know the trouble you’re in, keep Reacher by your side ...
“One of the many great things about Jack Reacher is that he’s larger than life while remaining relatable and believable. The Sentinel shows that two Childs are even better than one." - James Patterson
“It’s great to be back in Reacher’s company in a world where the bad guys get what’s coming to them. . . . A smooth transition for a much-loved character.” - The Observer (London)
“It’s
terrific…Brutal action mixes with keen-eyed detective work as Reacher
metes out his own brand of justice…If this novel is a harbinger of
what’s to come, then Jack is in good hands.” - Booklist
"Utterly addictive” - The New York Times
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