APPENDICES
BIOGRAPHY OF LEE CHILD
Jim Grant (born 29 October 1954), better known by his
Child, is a British
former American
States.
Jim Grant was born in
and his younger brother
moved him and his three brothers t
was four years old, so that the boys could get a better education. Grant attended
Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He
attende
In 1974, at age 20, Grant studie
worked backstage in a theatre. After graduating, he worked i
Grant joine
Grant
was involved in the transmission of more than 40,000 hours of programming for
Granada, writing thousands of commercials and news stories.He worked at
Granada from 1977–1995 and ended his career there with two years as a trade
uni
After being made redundant from his job due to corporate restructuring,
Grant decided to start writing novels, stating they are "the purest form of
entertainment." In 1997, his first novel
moved to the United States in the summer of 1998.
His pen name "Lee" comes from a family joke about mispronunciation of
the name of Renault'
his work on bookstore shelves betw
a
Grant has said that he chose the name Reacher for the central character in
his novels because he himself is tall and, in a supermarket
Cumbria, when he was living i
are written in first person, while others are written in the third person. Grant has
characterised the books as revenge stories – "Somebody does a very bad thing,
and Reacher takes revenge" – driven by his anger at the downsizing at Granada.
Although English, he deliberately chose to write American-style thrillers.
In 2007, Grant collaborated with 14 other writers to create the 17-part
serial thrille
broadcast weekl
2007.
On 30 June 2008, it was announced that Grant would be taking up a
Visiting Professorship at the
2009, Grant funded 52 Jack Reacher scholarships for students at the
university.Grant was elected president of the
Grant's prose has been described as "hardboiled" and "commercial" in
style. A 2012 interview suggested that many aspects of the Jack Reacher novels
were deliberately aimed at maintaining the books' profitability, rather than for
literary reasons. For instance, making Jack Reacher have one parent who was
French was suggested as being partly because the presence of only American
members of Reacher's family would limit the series' appeal in France. The same
interview stated that Grant "didn't apologise about the commercial nature" of his
SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL
In a small
a rush hour crowd in a public plaza, committing a massacre of five apparently
random victims with six shots. The shooter leaves a perfect trail behind for the
police to quickly track him down. Evidence from the scene, of a shell case and a
the wrong guy," and "Get Jack Reacher for me." Reacher, a former Army
Indiana. Reacher has no job, no home, no car, and a shrinking savings account
from his past military pay. Although Reacher has a
does have is sharp moral clarity in a modern climate of moral ambiguity.
Instead of clearing Barr, Reacher wants to assist the prosecution in
convicting him. There are good reasons why Reacher is the last person Barr would
want to see. When Reacher was an investigating Military Policeman years past,
Barr had gone on a killing spree similar to the Indiana shootout, murdering four
men during the
technicality let Barr walk free. Reacher swore he would track the sniper down if
he ever tried it again. Reacher believes Barr is guilty but Barr's sister Rosemary is
convinced of her brother's innocence and entreats lawyer Helen Rodin to defend
Reacher to form his own conclusions with the available evidence. The local
news reporter, Ann Yanni, is also looking for more information and Reacher is
more than willing to include her in his investigation, in exchange for the use of
her car and a guaranteed public expose on the Barr case. Reacher knows that 35
yards, the parking garage shooting distance to the victims, is point-blank range for
a trained military sniper like Barr. Reacher also knows the shooter missed one
shot on purpose, giving Reacher one shot at the truth.
Reacher drives t
practiced and learns some interesting facts from Gunny Samuel Cash, the former
the presumably airtight case against Barr. Cash is unwilling to reveal information
or his records to Reacher but grudgingly agrees to talk if Reacher is able to hit a
paper target dead center at 300 yards with one shot. After he succeeds, Reacher is
shown 32 sheets of target paper from three years' worth of Barr's practice
shootings at his range, every single sheet with dead-on maximum scores.
After the visit to the shooting range, Reacher adds Cash's information to
the case evidence. Helen and Rosemary sift through the clues in a riveting
analysis and finally get Reacher to conclude that Barr is innocent, which means
someone set up Barr as the sniper. Someone is also trying to get Reacher off the
case, which formerly seemed a slam-dunk but is now falling apart. Reacher is
teamed with Helen, the young defense lawyer working against her D.A. father
Reacher gets closer to the unseen enemy pulling the strings, leading him to
the real perpetrators, a Russian gang masquerading as legitimate businessmen.
The gang's eighty-year-old capo spent much of his life in one of the infamous
Soviet Gulags and is known only as the Zec. Reacher outwits the mob guards in
the Russian gang's fortress, efficiently and brutally dispatching five hoods before
confronting the boss and forcing him to come clean on the conspiracy from
