Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories

<p><i>On Monday September 5^th, 1994, at home, at the dining room table, I sat down to write. An hour later, I gave the first chapter to my wife. I asked, “Should I continue?”</i><br><br><i>“Yes,” she said. “I like it.”</i><br><br><b>From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child’s first-ever autobiographical collection.</b><br><br>From urgently scribbling out his debut <i>Killing Floor</i> in pencil (the stub of which he still owns), to taking a step back with <i>Blue Moon</i>, and everything in between, here are 24 fascinating personal reflections on his life and work, crafted across decades.<br><br>Whether it is through Lee’s moving account of meeting a fan years after her mother brought her to a book signing, to facing his first computer and the coming of the internet, to writing about New York just before – and just after – 9/11, to later seeing his novels adapted for the big screen . . . each riveting piece deftly evokes where he was, psychologically and physically, when he wrote each novel.<br><br>Lee has clearly felt unwavering gratitude for his readers since 1997. And these honest, witty and wise reflections were originally designed for fans of Reacher who may be interested in a ‘behind-the-scenes’ – or, in Lee’s words: ‘why the books turned out the way they did’.<br><br>But this collection is also so much more. It is the story of a man who once put pencil to paper in an attempt to turn his luck around . . . and who made every word count.</p>