
#Jack reacher author series
Jack Reacher has been turned into a film and is also reportedly being made into a series for Amazon’s Prime service.Īccording to the Times’ report, the cover of the next Reacher novel – in a series which is published by an imprint of Random Penguin House – will read: “Lee Child with Andrew Child”, in what has been interpreted as a possible sign of the publishing company’s nerves. And I know he’s now in safe hands.”Ĭhild has sold more than 100m books since embarking on a career as a novelist relatively late in life at 40. He added: “Readers don’t need to know about me or whoever writes the books. The series is written by Lee Child exclusively up until 2020, with usually. It was an instant hit winning multiple awards such as an Anthony Award and a Barry Award both for Best First Novel. Each book in the series is a self-contained story, and the plot of each book relies very little on the prior books in the series. Shortly after Reacher arrives in the sleepy town of Margrave, Georgia he's arrested for murder. Jack Reacher is a drifter and ex-military policeman. The first novel in the series, Killing Floor, was released in 1997. The electrifying debut novel which introduces Jack Reacher, a drifter and ex-military policeman a man of action unafraid to take justice into his own hands a man of intelligence and cunning. “It’s not as if I twisted his arm into doing it. Jack Reacher is one of the most popular characters in the modern day book world. Grant is an established author in his own right. Thats how many Jack Reacher novels he has sold worldwide.'I dont li. It would take an army to bring him down Reacher had to have an afterlife after I was done,” Child told the Times. Lee Child has 100 million reasons to ignore the snobbery towards crime fiction writers. First of all, I thought he would go out in a blaze of bullets, something like the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. “For years I thought about different ways of killing Reacher off. The Hunt for Jack Reacher series enthralls fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and more: 'Diane writes like the maestro of the jigsaw puzzle. Lee Child said he has been searching for a way to kill off the title character, portrayed on film by Tom Cruise, for years but has ultimately decided his fans deserve to see him live on in books which will now be written by Andrew Grant.īut Child, who was born James Grant, has reportedly set out a condition for his brother: he too must change his surname to Child. Lee Child, 1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers including Blue Moon and The Sentinel. A former major in the United States Army Military Police Corps, Reacher roams the United States taking odd jobs and investigating suspicious and frequently dangerous situations. The author of the Jack Reacher series of novels is retiring and handing over the writing duties to his brother, according to a report. Jack Reacher is a fictional protagonist of a series of novels, novellas and short stories by British author Jim Grant under the pen name Lee Child.
