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Lee Child is the pen name of British author James Dover Grant, best known for his Jack Reacher thriller series. Born in Coventry, England, in 1954, he worked in television before turning to writing.
Known for: Night School, No Plan B
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Night School
In 1996, Jack Reacher is still in the U.S. Army when he is sent to a secret training course in Hamburg, Germany. But the 'school' turns out to be a cover for a covert mission involving a mysterious Am...
No Plan B
In this twenty-seventh installment of the Jack Reacher series, Reacher finds himself in Gerrardsville, Colorado, where a mysterious death at a bus stop sets off a chain of events involving corruption,...
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The Assignment That Wasn’t: Entering Night School
The story opens with Major Jack Reacher being pulled from his usual military police duties. He’s told he’s being sent to a ‘training school’—the kind that no one talks about. When Reacher arrives, his military instincts immediately tell him that something is off. The participants aren’t ordinary off...
From Night School
Following the Money, Chasing the Ghost
The heart of the investigation beats in clandestine exchanges across Europe. The team learns that the American has vanished into the gray markets of post–Cold War Germany, using criminal intermediaries and old smuggling networks. Intelligence whispers hint that jihadist middlemen are arranging a pur...
From Night School
Gerrardsville and the Death at the Bus Stop
Reacher arrives in Gerrardsville, Colorado, intending nothing more than to keep moving — a place like any other on his endless road. He’s at a bus stop, waiting like anyone would, when he witnesses something that interrupts the monotony: a woman stepping deliberately into the path of an oncoming bus...
From No Plan B
Uncovering the Prison Connection
Every town has its engine. In Gerrardsville, that engine is the Minerva Correctional Facility — sleekly branded as a place for rehabilitation, but operating like a machine built to grind human beings into products. Reacher uncovers that the dead woman had been connected to Minerva through her work. ...
From No Plan B
About Lee Child
Lee Child is the pen name of British author James Dover Grant, best known for his Jack Reacher thriller series. Born in Coventry, England, in 1954, he worked in television before turning to writing. His debut novel, 'Killing Floor,' won the Anthony Award and launched the internationally bestselling ...
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Lee Child is the pen name of British author James Dover Grant, best known for his Jack Reacher thriller series. Born in Coventry, England, in 1954, he worked in television before turning to writing. His debut novel, 'Killing Floor,' won the Anthony Award and launched the internationally bestselling ...
Lee Child is the pen name of British author James Dover Grant, best known for his Jack Reacher thriller series. Born in Coventry, England, in 1954, he worked in television before turning to writing. His debut novel, 'Killing Floor,' won the Anthony Award and launched the internationally bestselling Reacher series.
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Lee Child is the pen name of British author James Dover Grant, best known for his Jack Reacher thriller series. Born in Coventry, England, in 1954, he worked in television before turning to writing.
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