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Read by: Jeff Harding
Series: The Jack Reacher Series
Running Time: 12 hours 45 mins
Categories: Thriller; Action
Released: Oct 2014
Media: mp3 CD; Unabridged
ISBN: 9780553546101
The Author
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.'"
He has written seventeen Jack Reacher novels which have won various awards, including the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, and the National Book Award. 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.It's
about midday in a small town in Indiana. A lone gunman enters the
parking lot and fires into the rush hour crowd, killing five people with
six shots. When the killer is found a few days later via an easy trail
left for cops to follow, he only says one thing: Get Reacher for me.
He then starts proclaiming his innocence.
Jack Reacher, ex-military turned cop, knows not of the man until he sees it on the news, but, in a shot, he's on a bus to Indiana. With no job and a shrinking savings account, the only thing that leads him to help is his moral convictions and his spotless record for solving crimes in record time.
Of course, it comes to light that this isn't the suspect's first killing.
Years
ago, he'd been an army sniper in the same unit as Reacher, where he'd
gone on a similar killing spree and gotten away with it. Reacher isn't
about to let that happen again, and he tries with all his might to make
sure the killer stays behind bars...but will he be able to?
Only time will tell if his efforts will truly be successful ...
Reviews
“Hot, indomitable…knockout.” - New York Times
“Unraveling and re-tangling violent narratives is the writer’s specialty. This is the ninth of his books to feature the drifter-investigator Jack Reacher—a hybrid of John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee and Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer—and it certainly ranks in the first tier of the series. There is considerable mayhem, lovingly described…and there’s a good cast…Before it’s all, vividly, over, one feels confident that Reacher—smart, rootless, and brave—will not only get his man but make him suffer.” - New Yorker
“The thing about Lee Child’s books is that you can’t put the damn things down.” - Independent on Sunday (London)
“Lee Child is often mistaken for a US writer, so skillfully and enthusiastically has he embraced the idiom of the American thriller…One of the genre’s finest practitioners.” - Independent (London)
“Child combines detail-building procedural style with an all-systems-go thriller narrative…Reacher can run away from most of the competition in the thriller sweepstakes.” - Booklist
“The author’s best thriller in years, filled as it is with detailed procedural insight, dry wit, and page-turning disclosures.” - Bookmarks magazine
On Media
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