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Lee Child

Nascido: October 29, 1954 – Coventry, Warwickshire, England

Lee Child is a British thriller novelist best known for creating Jack Reacher, the former military policeman who anchors his bestselling series. Beginning with Killing Floor, his books focus on crime, justice, and vigilantism, and have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, with translations into numerous languages.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Born James Dover Grant in Coventry in 1954 and raised largely in Birmingham, Lee Child came to fiction comparatively late. He won a scholarship to the school once attended by J. R. R. Tolkien, studied law in Sheffield, worked part-time in the theatre, and then spent eighteen years at Granada Television in Manchester as a presentation director during a period that produced major British dramas such as Brideshead Revisited and Prime Suspect. The decisive break came in 1995, when corporate restructuring ended that career. Rather than treat redundancy as defeat, he bought a few dollars’ worth of paper and pencils and began the novel that became Killing Floor. ((https://www.jackreacher.com/us/authors/))

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Because I was out of work. It’s as simple as that
-Lee Child Answers Listener Questions About Jack Reacher
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The inspiration for Jack Reacher comes from all of us, in a way
-Lee Child Answers Listener Questions About Jack Reacher
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You can start anywhere. Literally, just grab any one
-Lee Child Answers Listener Questions About Jack Reacher
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Literally, you can’t make this stuff up
-Lee Child Talks About NIGHT SCHOOL, Real-Life Inspirations and His Writing Regimen
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Ignore all thoughts that include the words “ought” or “should.”
-Lee Child Talks About NIGHT SCHOOL, Real-Life Inspirations and His Writing Regimen
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Write to please yourself alone
-Lee Child Talks About NIGHT SCHOOL, Real-Life Inspirations and His Writing Regimen
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The best thing to do is not to get too close to the character
-Lee Child on Jack Reacher: 'I don't like him that much'
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I don’t like Reacher that much; I’m in total control of him
-Lee Child on Jack Reacher: 'I don't like him that much'
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Reacher straddles the line between real and mythic
-‘Between real and mythic’: an oral history of Jack Reacher
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There is no better reader than a bookseller
-‘Between real and mythic’: an oral history of Jack Reacher

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Vozes da Comunidade

"Like his hero Jack Reacher, Lee Child seems to make no wrong steps"

Associated Press

"There are now Lee Child copycats aplenty. Save your money for the real thing"

The Guardian

"Lee Child may be the best thriller writer in the business"

The Boston Globe

"Lee Child is the current poster-boy of American crime fiction"

Los Angeles Times

"Lee Child continues his meteoric rise and mastery of suspense with Tripwire"

Michael Connelly

"Lee Child, you're British, but you really know America - in a loving sort of way"

Stephen King

"Page for page, there's probably more fisticuffs in a Lee Child thriller than anywhere else"

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