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Read by: Jeff Harding
Series: The Jack Reacher Series
Running Time: 9 hours 15 mins
Categories: Thriller; Action
Released: October 2023
Media: mp3 CD; Unabridged
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 Peculier 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 gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from Lee Child and Andrew Child
A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose.
1992.
All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are
showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear
to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts
some unexpected attention.
That attention comes from the
Secretary of Defence. All of a sudden he wants an inter-agency task
force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the Army’s
representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a
convenient fall guy.
But office politics isn’t Reacher’s thing.
Three questions quickly emerge: Who’s with him, who’s against him, and
will the justice he dispenses be the official kind . . . or his own
kind?
Reviews
“Trouble could be Jack Reacher’s middle name in this 28th adventure in the series…An enjoyable, fast-moving yarn.” - Kirkus Reviews
"The truth about Reacher gets better and better. . . . This series [is] utterly addictive." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears." - Ken Follett
"Reacher is the stuff of myth. . . . One of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes." - The Washington Post
"I’m a fan." - James Patterson, international best-selliong author
"A perfectly plotted, fast-paced thriller, with bigger twists than ever before. It's no wonder Jack Reacher is everyone's favourite rebel hero" - Karin Slaughter, international best-selliong author
"Reacher is a man for whom the phrase moral compass was invented: His code determines his direction. . . . You need Jack Reacher." - The Atlantic
"I pick up Jack Reacher when I’m in the mood for someone big to solve my problems." - Patricia Cornwell
"[A] feverishly thrilling series . . . You can always count on furious action." - Miami Herald
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