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Lee Child

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Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England. His family soon moved to Birmingham, where he went to the same high school that J. R. R. Tolkien once attended. He received a formal English education, learning Latin, Greek, and Old English, before he attended law school in Sheffield. After working in the theater, he began an eighteen-year career with Granada Television in Manchester. After company-wide restructuring, he left, embarking on a fiction-writing career.

Jack Reacher, who has been featured in all of Child’s novels, made his first appearance in 1997 in Killing Floor, which was an immediate success, winning both the Anthony and Barry Awards for best first novel of the year. The series has increased in popularity each year, with foreign rights selling widely around the world, while making regular appearances on major bestseller lists everywhere. One Shot (2005), was made into the movie Jack Reacher, starring Tom Cruise.

The James Bond–like author drives a supercharged Jaguar and divides his time between the south of France and Manhattan, where he has become an enthusiastic fan of the New York Yankees. He is married and has a daughter.

Lee Child Books

The Secret book cover

The Secret

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No Plan B book cover

No Plan B

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Jack Reacher book cover

Jack Reacher

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Reacher: Killing Floor (Movie Tie-In) book cover

Reacher: Killing Floor (Movie Tie-In)

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Killer Year: Stories to Die For book cover

Killer Year: Stories to Die For

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Better Off Dead book cover

Better Off Dead

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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021 (Best Mystery Stories) book cover

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021 (Best Mystery Stories)

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How to Write a Mystery book cover

How to Write a Mystery

Mystery Writers of America
The Sentinel book cover

The Sentinel

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The Nicotine Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles) book cover

The Nicotine Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles)

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Blue Moon book cover

Blue Moon

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James Penney's New Identity book cover

James Penney's New Identity

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Faking a Murderer book cover

Faking a Murderer

Kathy Reichs
Invisible Blood book cover

Invisible Blood

Maxim Jakubowski
Exit Wounds book cover

Exit Wounds

Paul Kane
Cleaning the Gold book cover

Cleaning the Gold

Karin Slaughter
Past Tense book cover

Past Tense

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The Christmas Scorpion: A Jack Reacher Story book cover

The Christmas Scorpion: A Jack Reacher Story

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Ten Year Stretch book cover

Ten Year Stretch

Martin Edwards
I Heard a Romantic Story book cover

I Heard a Romantic Story

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