Lee Child has no regrets about retiring. He doesn’t even like Jack Reacher that much From 1843mag
solation suits Lee Child. When I catch up on Zoom with one of the world’s bestselling thriller writers, he appears in the frame amid a halo of smoke, dressed in a striped-shirt and faded blue denim jacket. On the wall behind him is a vintage poster warning of the evils of marijuana, another of Child’s vices.
It’s not just the writing that attracts readers but the character of the protagonist. Reacher is the embodiment of two types of freedom. He is free to do anything he likes – he has no obligations to people or place – and he is free from any material load, with no possessions to weigh him down. Nothing threatens him. Pace and liberty have proved to be a winning combination: Child has sold more than 100m copies of his Reacher novels, in 49 languages.
The industrial Birmingham of Child’s youth was a tough place. Child won a scholarship to a “very posh” school that required a uniform, so “every morning I would have to fight my way out of my neighbourhood, and then every afternoon I’d have to fight my way back in.” He carried “a book in one pocket and a knife in the other”. Being “huge”, as he describes it, he discovered that he relished a brawl: “I liked it. I was very, very good at it.
Though Reacher has a rigid sense of justice, the novels remain largely unencumbered by social commentary . Nevertheless, there has been a subtle shift in the books. As the series has gone on, the prose has got even sparer. And, as Child’s rage has propelled him to riches and recognition, so his hero Reacher has become less weighed down by his own past.series is in the works.
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