Personal: (Jack Reacher 19)

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Honorary Graduates" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2013 . Retrieved 16 April 2018. 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. The Bob Kellogg Good Citizen Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Internet Writing Community [ citation needed]

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Marshall, Alex (16 September 2020). "How to Judge the Booker Prize in a Pandemic". The New York Times. Amos takes Reacher to meet an elderly Stan, who seemingly faked his death and retired to Laconia, but when they meet, Reacher learns the truth: his father, Stan's cousin William Reacher, stole Stan's identity to enlist in the Marines after beating a local bully to death in 1945, and lived under that name until he died. Castle and Carrington turn up: they had fallen in love and were secretly tracing Stan's childhood off-the-grid, ending at Ryantown. Reacher tells Burke and Amos that he won't be meeting the professor after all, as he has no desire to learn anything further about his past. He then lets them return to Laconia before setting off for San Diego. Shortlist for Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009". digyorkshire.com. 2 June 2009 . Retrieved 17 June 2009. Who are the suspects? Through trips between the US and France and the US and England, Reacher tries to unravel the conspiracy that prompted the assassination attempt in the first place—a conspiracy meant to return one man to power who had thought he had seen it slip away from him in his advancing age. This companion/analysis to Personal unravels every plot, symbol, theme... After 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]Me and Mr. Rafferty", collected in The Dark End of the Street (2010, edited by Jonathan Santlofer and S. J. Rozan) Post on Lee Child's Facebook account]". United States. 26 January 2018. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022 . Retrieved 9 February 2018.

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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] Child, Lee (1 September 2014). "Lee Child". Simon Mayo Drivetime. Interviewed by Simon Mayo. Radio 2; BBC . Retrieved 29 March 2017. Best-selling author Lee Child is applying for Irish passport because of Brexit". thejournal.ie. 25 November 2019 . Retrieved 6 October 2020. Kean, Danuta (1 November 2018). "Lee Child joins authors auctioning character names for charity". The Guardian. United Kingdom . Retrieved 1 November 2018.Reacher is the stuff of myth, a great male fantasy. . . . One of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes . . . [Lee] Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense." --The Washington Post

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Grant is a fan of Aston Villa Football Club [33] and has been known to include the names of Aston Villa players in his books. [34] The promo copy on the ARC of Child's new thriller proclaims, ""We dare to make this claim: Lee Child is the best thriller writer you're probably not reading-yet."" Hopefully the ""six-figure"" Continue reading »A Reacher Moment…or two". twbooks.co.uk. Tangled Web UK. 2005. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015 . Retrieved 7 October 2007. Fans won't be disappointed by this suspense-filled, riveting thriller." -- Library Journal (starred review)

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British author Lee Child receives the "prestigious" RBA Prize for Crime Writing". Catalan News Agency. 5 September 2014 . Retrieved 3 March 2015. Grant married his wife Jane in 1975 and moved to the United States in the summer of 1998. Since then, they have resided in New York state. They have a daughter, Ruth. [7] [11] Anthony Award; Barry Award; Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize; Dilys Award nominee; Macavity Award nominee Meanwhile, Reacher is barred from returning to Laconia after getting in two separate fights, making him the target of both a corrupt local farmer and a crime syndicate based out of Boston. After subduing the Boston hitmen set to capture him at a library and subduing the farmer and his workers in a fight, Reacher and his friend Rev. Burke (who he saved earlier from being assaulted) learn that a professor at a nearby university, also named Reacher, wants to speak to him as he is the only living male descendant of his family line. Castle and Carrington also disappear, with seemingly no explanation why. Reacher is always up for a good fight, most entertainingly when he goes mano a mano with a seven-foot, 300-pound monster of a mobster named Little Joey. But it's Reacher the Teacher who wows here." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times

Select Editions". Reader's Digest. Archived from the original on 9 February 2008 . Retrieved 18 February 2007. Reacher, together with Casey Nice, manages to approach White's general quarters, where a giant who goes by the name of Joseph (Little Joey) Green, defends the castle. 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 The Barry Awards: A Literary Award for Crime Fiction". Crime Fiction Awards. Omnimystery . Retrieved 29 March 2017.