Lee has three homes-an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012. Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended.
Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham.
Lessons that will come in handy when he starts digging for the truth-and gets his hands a lot dirtier than he expected. And he’s learned the hard way never to underestimate an opponent. But Reacher knows that things are rarely what they seem. His target: a quartet of high-powered Army political liaison officers-all of them fast-track women on their way to the top.Īccording to his bosses, it’s a zero-danger mission. His task: infiltrate the top-secret proceedings and smoke out the mole. The prospect of any and every terrorist, mercenary, or dictator’s militia getting their hands on the latest superior firepower is unthinkable. But vital details about the weapon are leaking-straight from the Capitol and probably into the hands of unidentified foreign arms dealers.
The assignment that awaits him: The army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for U.S. Summoned by Military Intelligence to Washington, D.C., Reacher is sent undercover.
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