Blue Moon: (Jack Reacher 24)

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Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar’s Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born. Lee spends his spare time reading, listening to music, and watching the Yankees, Aston Villa, or Marseilles soccer. He is married with a grown-up daughter. He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise.

‘It is tremendously comforting to be in the hands of Child and his hero – a good man who we know will save the day in the end before moving on, toothbrush in pocket, “just the clothes on his back. No particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there.’ Observer 

‘Lee Child is the absolute master of the story of a lone stranger arriving in town to save the innocent, and this is one of the best of his series…as always, the violence is ferocious and fast-moving. Anyone feeling hard done by or facing insuperable odds will be comforted by this novel, which is also the best advertisement for the NHS I have ever seen.’ Literary Review 

‘Forget Marvel – we all know Jack Reacher is the only avenger that matters…Child has found his mojo again.’  Sun 

‘There’s only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes. Jack Reacher, the 21st-century knight errant who over 23 books has proved himself the most reliable excellent basher of bad guys since [James]Bond…And good work, Lee Child. If you’re at all partial to his revenge fantasies, this is one of the best for a while…your hands keep turning those pages, drawn in by storytelling that knows fancy words count for less than clarity and rhythm…It’s nonsense. Yet it’s compelling nonsense, a vicarious clearing away of life’s obstacles via a hero who has no moral qualms, no physical or emotional vulnerability and no interest in what shampoo he uses.’ The Times