I might be wrong but I suspect that that isn’t Lee Child’s purpose. Nobody should pick up a Jack Reacher novel and expect great literature. He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise. Lee spends his spare time reading, listening to music, and watching the Yankees, Aston Villa, or Marseilles soccer. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born.
Lee has three homes-an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012.
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Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. And for Reacher, the only way to take him down is to know his ruthlessness and respect his cunning–and then match him shot for shot… Moving in the shadows, picking his spots, Reacher gets closer and closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings.
But, as always, in battle, Reacher is at his best. Like most things Reacher has known in life, this case is a complex battlefield. father and dueling with a prosecution team that has an explosive secret of its own. Soon Reacher is teamed with a young defense lawyer who is working against her D.A. But when Reacher hears Barr’s own words, he understands. But why does Barr want Reacher at his side? There are good reasons why Reacher is the last person Barr would want to see. His victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The gunman worked from a parking structure just thirty yards away–point-blank range for a trained military sniper like James Barr.
In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, Reacher’s arrival will change everything-about a case that isn’t what it seems, about lives tangled in baffling ways, about a killer who missed one shot–and by doing so give Jack Reacher one shot at the truth.…
And sure enough, from the world he lives in-no phone, no address, no commitments–ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror.
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