Cover photograph by Aris Photography
The Reacher Guy
is a life of bestselling superstar Lee Child, a portrait of the artist as a
young man, refracted through the life of his fictional avatar, Jack Reacher. It
tells the story of how the boy from Birmingham reinvented himself to become the
strongest brand in publishing, selling over one hundred million books in more
than forty different languages across the globe.
Heather Martin interviews friends,
teachers, colleagues and neighbours, including agents and editors. Based
primarily on her conversations with the author over a period of years, together
with readings of his books and research in his archive, this authorised
biography reveals the man behind the myth, tracing his origins back through the
generations to Northern Ireland and County Durham, and following the trajectory
of his extraordinary career via New York and Hollywood until the climactic
moment when, in 2020, having written a continuous series of twenty-four books,
he finally floats free of his fictional creation.
The Reacher Guy
is by Heather Martin and is published on 29 September 2020 by Little, Brown Book
Group.
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