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Book Reviewed by:This article relates to Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child was born in the exact
geographic center of England, in
the heart of the industrial
badlands. The sort of place
where minor disputes were
settled with box cutters and
bicycle chains. He's got the
scars to prove it. But he
survived, got an education, and
went to university where he
spent most of his time in the
university theater; after which
he went to work for Granada
Television in Manchester. Over
eighteen years he was involved
with more than 40,000 hours of
the company's program output. He
also wrote thousands of links,
trailers, commercials and news
stories, most of them on
deadlines that ranged from
fifteen minutes to fifteen
seconds. So the thought of a
novel-a-year didn't worry him
too much, in his next career.
But why a next career? He was
fired in 1995 during a
"downsizing". After eighteen
years, he was an expensive
veteran, and he was also the
union organizer, and neither
thing fit the company's plan for
the future. He had an idea for a
character who had suffered the
same downsizing experience but
who was taking it completely in
his stride. He named the
character Jack Reacher and wrote
Killing Floor as fast as
he could. He needed to sell it
before his severance check ran
out. He made it with seven weeks
to spare.
Lee moved from the UK to the US
in the summer of 1998. He lives
in New York and France with his
American wife, Jane. They have a
grown-up daughter, Ruth. He
likes to travel, for vacations,
but especially on promotion
tours so he can meet his
readers, to whom he is eternally
grateful.
His latest novel,
Nothing to Lose, was
published in the UK in March and
will be released in the USA in
June.
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This "beyond the book article" relates to Bad Luck and Trouble. It originally ran in June 2007 and has been updated for the
March 2008 paperback edition.
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