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Lee Child

Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. 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. He was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. 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 (now 15 book) Jack Reacher series.

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British thriller writer

Born 1954

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  • Cover of: The Best American Mystery Stories 2010
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    First published in 2010 — 3 editions
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British thriller writer

Born 1954

Subjects

Fiction, Reacher, jack (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Jack Reacher (Fictitious character), Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, New York Times bestseller, Private investigators, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Detective and mystery stories, Large type books, Thriller, Ex-police officers, Murder, Military police, Investigation, Private investigators, fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, New York Times reviewed, Retired military personnel, Serial murders, Conspiracies, Jack Reacher (Fictional character), Snipers

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New York (N.Y.), Middle West, United States, Colorado, France, Chicago (Ill.), Florida, Indiana, Montana, New York, New York (State), Texas, Chicago, Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.), Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.), Georgia, Gerrardsville, Illinois, Key West, Key West (Fla.), Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana country wide

People

Jack Reacher (Fictitious character), Cotton Malone (Fictitious character), Jack Reacher (fictitious character), Joe Pickett (Fictitious character), John H. Watson, Roy Grace (Fictitious character), Sherlock Holmes, Temperance Brennan (Fictitious character), Travis McGee

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1997, 21st century, Mid sixties, Modern day

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