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Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher
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For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reacher. But even at the height of Reacher’s fame, Child’s short story writing was not confined to the series; throughout the course of his career, he published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law, including assassins, a body guard, CIA and FBI agents, gangsters, and more. Meticulously plotted and packed with Child’s trademark action and suspense, the stories show the author’s mastery of the short form, and they’ve never been collected before now. These twenty intriguing, thrilling, and rapid-fire fictions are sure to please new and longtime fans of Child and to illuminate a side of the author’s work unknown to Reacher devotees. Featuring a colorful new introduction from the author, the collection stands as the first book written entirely by Child in three years. Contents: Bodyguard; The Greatest Trick of All; Ten Keys; Safe Enough; Natural in Every Way ;The .50 Solution; Publica Transportation; Me and Mr. Rafferty; Section 7 (a) (Operational); Addicted to Sweetness; The Bone-Headed League; I Heard a Romantic Story; My First Drug Trial; Wet with Rain; The Truth About What Happened; Pierre, Lucien & Me; New Blank Document; Shorty and the Briefcase; Dying for a Cigarette; The Snake-Eater by the Numbers.
Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher
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For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reacher. But even at the height of Reacher’s fame, Child’s short story writing was not confined to the series; throughout the course of his career, he published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law, including assassins, a body guard, CIA and FBI agents, gangsters, and more. Meticulously plotted and packed with Child’s trademark action and suspense, the stories show the author’s mastery of the short form, and they’ve never been collected before now. These twenty intriguing, thrilling, and rapid-fire fictions are sure to please new and longtime fans of Child and to illuminate a side of the author’s work unknown to Reacher devotees. Featuring a colorful new introduction from the author, the collection stands as the first book written entirely by Child in three years. Contents: Bodyguard; The Greatest Trick of All; Ten Keys; Safe Enough; Natural in Every Way ;The .50 Solution; Publica Transportation; Me and Mr. Rafferty; Section 7 (a) (Operational); Addicted to Sweetness; The Bone-Headed League; I Heard a Romantic Story; My First Drug Trial; Wet with Rain; The Truth About What Happened; Pierre, Lucien & Me; New Blank Document; Shorty and the Briefcase; Dying for a Cigarette; The Snake-Eater by the Numbers.
Lee Child
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Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. 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. He was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the (now 15 book) Jack Reacher series. -- from leechild.com
