He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's 'golden age.' During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. If Reacher can’t set things straight, who can? Reacher can never resist a lady in distress. And at Carmen’s remote ranch in Echo County there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. The last thing he’s worried about is exactly who picks him up.
He’s adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water.
In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you’re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport.
