Lee Child

Author

Bio

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

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No Plan B

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Jack Reacher

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Reacher: Killing Floor (Movie Tie-In)

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Killer Year: Stories to Die For

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Better Off Dead

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

Lee Child

How to Write a Mystery

Mystery Writers of America

The Sentinel

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The Nicotine Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles)

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Blue Moon

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James Penney's New Identity

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Faking a Murderer

Kathy Reichs

Invisible Blood

Maxim Jakubowski

Exit Wounds

Paul Kane

Cleaning the Gold

Karin Slaughter

Past Tense

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The Christmas Scorpion: A Jack Reacher Story

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Ten Year Stretch

Martin Edwards

I Heard a Romantic Story

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