With a foreword by Lee Child. Andy Martin spent a year in the
company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With
Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication
and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an
apartment in Manhattan, the filming of Never Go Back in New
Orleans, all the agony and ecstasy of the creative process and the
sheer hard work of selling a bestseller. They go on the road
together, from TV studios to bookstores, from Harvard to Stockholm,
amid literary conferences and gunshows, rivalries and reviews
ranging from adulatory to murderous. We meet fellow writers like
Stephen King and David Lagercrantz and Karin Slaughter, and dissect
the latest novel from Jonathan Franzen. But Martin also reaches out
to Child's legion of readers in America and around the world. He
tracks down a woman in Texas whose name appears in the home
invasion scene in Make Me; he goes up a mountain in Montana in
search of the only reader who thinks Reacher is a "lightweight";
and he talks to obsessive fans from Europe to South Africa who find
salvation or consolation in the colossal form of Jack Reacher. This
compelling account of life on the road with Lee Child demonstrates
that readers are just as important as writers in the making of
modern fiction.
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