Select Editions". Reader's Digest. Archived from the original on 9 February 2008 . Retrieved 18 February 2007. Grant was born in Coventry. [5] His Northern Irish father, who was born in Belfast, was a civil servant who lived in the house where the singer Van Morrison was later born. [6] [7] He is the second of four sons; [8] his younger brother, Andrew Grant, is also a thriller novelist. Grant's family relocated to Handsworth Wood in Birmingham when he was four years old so that the boys could receive a better education. [9] Grant attended Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. [10] The Barry Awards: A Literary Award for Crime Fiction". Crime Fiction Awards. Omnimystery . Retrieved 29 March 2017.

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Things You Did Not Know About Lee Child". The Penguin Digest. 30 August 2017 . Retrieved 28 February 2020. You will get chapter by chapter summary, analysis and essential quotes from Personal. Use this study guide to help you cope with your literature class, book club or just to help you better grasp the book itself. Reacher is the stuff of myth, a great male fantasy. . . . One of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes . . . Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense.” —The Washington Post Excellent book. It will keep you reading when you should be sleeping, getting work done, getting kids off to school. Face it, you won't get anything done, so just read the book, finish it, then get everything done. Shortlist for Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009". digyorkshire.com. 2 June 2009 . Retrieved 17 June 2009.His pen name "Lee" comes from a family joke about a heard mispronunciation of the name of Renault's Le Car, as "Lee Car". Calling anything "Lee" became a family gag. His daughter, Ruth, was "lee child". [18] Post on Lee Child's Facebook account]". United States. 26 January 2018. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022 . Retrieved 9 February 2018. Reacher once got one John Kott put away for 15 years. And Kott was a fantastic marksman who could kill from almost a mile away. Now Kott has been released and he may be an assassin for hire OR he may be hunting Reacher for revenge.There are 3 other possible assassins but the hunt soon narrows the field to two.....a British marksman named Carson and Kott. Since there is going to be a G-8 meeting in London , that is where the effort to stop any planned assassination will be concentrated.

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In 2007, Grant collaborated with 14 other writers to create the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript, narrated by Alfred Molina. This was broadcast weekly on Audible.com between 25 September 2007 and 13 November 2007. In 2013, the Daily Mail quoted Grant saying that he writes while intoxicated ("high") by cannabis. However, in a phone interview in November 2013, he clarified his comments to the Irish Examiner, saying he had never written while high. "Yeah, that's true", Child told The Post-Standard. "I mean, people say to me, 'There was that story in the newspaper,' and I say, 'No, that's The Daily Mail.' In Britain, that's not a newspaper, you know, that's a scandal sheet where they make stuff up. It's not very reliable. And certainly, I don't deny smoking the occasional joint, but I don't work when I'm stoned because you don't get much done that way." [35] Works [ edit ] Novels [ edit ]

The Truth About What Happened", collected in In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (December 2016) Cornwell, Bob. "A Reacher Moment...or Two". twbooks.co.uk. Tangled Web Books UK. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015 . Retrieved 18 February 2007.

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Me and Mr. Rafferty", collected in The Dark End of the Street (2010, edited by Jonathan Santlofer and S. J. Rozan) Reacher is the stuff of myth, a great male fantasy. . . . One of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes . . . Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense." --The Washington PostAfter being made redundant from his job because of corporate restructuring, [13] Grant decided to start writing novels, stating they are "the purest form of entertainment." [16] In 1997, his first novel, Killing Floor, was published, and he moved to the United States in the summer of 1998. [11] He starts each new book of the series on an anniversary of his starting the first book after losing his job. [17] All in all, Lee Child’s Personal is an entertaining read with much to recommend it. If there are places in the text where the author’s attention seems to have lapsed, there are also many where the level of detail provided is excellent and excellently handled, and, as a way to spend a day, reading it is a good one. In 2020 Child joined the Booker Prize judging panel, alongside Margaret Busby (chair), Sameer Rahim, Lemn Sissay and Emily Wilson. [28] [29] [30] Philanthropy [ edit ]