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Lee Child: Jack Reacher, my true crime inspiration, my writing craft and why I've left America

Lee Child: Jack Reacher, my true crime inspiration, my writing craft and why I've left America

Update: 2025-05-27
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Recorded at CrimeFest in Bristol, England, May 2025

Lee Child on how his TV career helped him write, his favourite authors, how he ‘writes the fast stuff slow and the slow stuff fast’ and handing the Jack Reacher baton to his brother Andrew.

Links mentioned in the show:

https://www.jackreacher.com/us/

https://www.crimefest.com/

Decoy book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decoy-secretive-historical-undercover-operations/dp/0008666814/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

To Hunt A Killer: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunt-Killer-gripping-Longlisted-non-fiction/dp/0008507473/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

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Lee Child: Jack Reacher, my true crime inspiration, my writing craft and why I've left America

Lee Child: Jack Reacher, my true crime inspiration, my writing craft and why I've left America

Robert Murphy