Lee Child on Jack Reacher / 'I don't like him that much'

 

Lee Child: ‘The best thing to do is not to get too close to the character.’ 
Photograph: Geoffrey Pugh

Lee Child on Jack Reacher: 'I don't like him that much'

Author says he takes a hard-hearted approach to character and planned to kill him off

Alison Flood

Saturday 27 July 2020

Jack Reacher has millions of fans all over the world, but his creator, Lee Child, has revealed he doesn’t “like Reacher that much” and originally planned to end his bestselling thriller series by having his character “bleed out on some filthy motel bathroom floor”.

 

5 more books for a rainy day

Posted by couchmagpie

Mathew Haynes
28 October 2020

You know I’d like to be doing a post called Holiday Books 2020 but that’s not happening for me this year, hence I’ve gone with a gloomier theme for the title. I’d like to think there’s a book for everyone in this list, but that’s perhaps not wholly true since there is a male-bias and certainly no, dare I say it, chicklit. I keep telling Siggy to start a blog so she can wax lyrical about the latest Emily Barr, Pudding Club or Shopaholic book, but she’s not biting.