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Lee Child


(Jim Grant)
UK flag (b.1954)
Brother of Andrew Grant

Lee Child is British but moved with his family from Cumbria to the United States to start a new career as an American thriller writer. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award, and his second, Die Trying, won W H Smith's Thumping Good Read Award.

He lives just outside New York City, with his American wife, Jane. They have a grown-up daughter, Ruth, and a small dog called Jenny. Lee fills his spare time with music, reading, and the New York Yankees. He likes to travel, for vacations, but especially on promotion tours so he can meet his readers, to whom he is eternally grateful.
 

Genres: Thriller, Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
June 2024

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The Big Bang!
 
August 2024

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Safe Enough
 
October 2024

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In Too Deep
(Jack Reacher, book 29)
Series
Jack Reacher
   1. Killing Floor (1997)
   2. Die Trying (1998)
   3. Tripwire (1999)
   4. Running Blind (2000)

     aka The Visitor

   5. Echo Burning (2001)
   6. Without Fail (2002)
   7. Persuader (2003)
   8. The Enemy (2004)
   9. One Shot (2005)
   10. The Hard Way (2006)
   11. Bad Luck and Trouble (2007)
   12. Nothing To Lose (2008)
   13. Gone Tomorrow (2009)
   14. 61 Hours (2010)
   15. Worth Dying For (2010)
   15.5. Second Son (2011)
   16. The Affair (2011)
   16.5. Deep Down (2012)
   17. A Wanted Man (2012)
   17.5. High Heat (2013)
   18. Never Go Back (2013)
   18.5. Not a Drill (2014)
   19. Personal (2014)
   19.2. Good and Valuable Consideration (2014) (with Joseph Finder)
   19.5. Small Wars (2015)
   20. Make Me (2015)
   21. Night School (2014)
   No Middle Name (2017)
   21.5. Too Much Time (2018)
   22. The Midnight Line (2017)
   22.5. The Christmas Scorpion (2018)
   23. Past Tense (2018)
   23.5. The Fourth Man (2019)
   23.6. Cleaning the Gold (2019) (with Karin Slaughter)
   24. Blue Moon (2019)
   25. The Sentinel (2020) (with Andrew Child)
   26. Better off Dead (2021) (with Andrew Child)
   Jack Reacher: A Mysterious Profile (2022)
   27. No Plan B (2022) (with Andrew Child)
   28. The Secret (2023) (with Andrew Child)
   29. In Too Deep (2024) (with Andrew Child)
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Novels
   Inherit the Dead (2013) (with others)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
   Killer Year (2008)
   First Thrills (2010)
   MatchUp (2017)
   The Big Bang! (2024) (with Luca Veste)
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Anthology series
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Non fiction show
 
Lee Child recommends
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Extinction (2024)
Douglas Preston
"A thriller as breathlessly riveting as you would expect from a genre master like Doug Preston, but much more too: it's meaty and thought-provoking, and tells us a lot about our distant past -- and our immediate future. Spectacular!"
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Baby X (2024)
Kira Peikoff
"Once again Peikoff gives us a breathless thriller - with an ending you totally won't see coming - that leaves us wondering if it could be real. Fantastic!"
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Leave no Trace (2024)
(National Parks Thriller, book 1)
A J Landau
"A great story and an intriguing issue... a solid winner!"

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Anthologies containing stories by Lee Child
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Dear NHS (2020)
100 Stories to Say Thank You
edited by
Adam Kay

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Awards
Anthony Awards Best First Novel winner (1998) : Killing Floor
Dilys Awards Best Book nominee (1998) : Killing Floor
Dilys Awards Best Book nominee (2003) : Without Fail
Dilys Awards Best Book nominee (2005) : The Enemy
Macavity Awards Best Novel nominee (2006) : One Shot
Anthony Awards Best Novel nominee (2008) : Bad Luck and Trouble
BCA Crime Thriller of the Year Best Novel nominee (2008) : Bad Luck and Trouble
Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award Best Book nominee (2010) : Worth Dying For


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