Are you one of the 100 million people in need of an addictive Reacher fix?

With a book selling every nine seconds, famous fans include Tom Cruise (who took Reacher to the big screen), Bill Clinton and Stephen King.

Exit Strategy is the 30th Reacher book (now co-written with his brother, Andrew).

The first, Killing Floor in 1997, changed the author’s life. Then 40 years-old, Jim Grant was made redundant from his job at Granada, and reinvented himself as Lee Child. He spent £3.99 on pencils and paper, sat down at his kitchen table, and began to write.

It’s the stuff of Hollywood movies, told in Lee’s first-ever autobiographical collection of essays that puts his writing in a cultural and personal context

Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories takes us from that first novel scribbled in pencil, to the advent of the internet and 9/11, to seeing his books adapted to the big and small screen.

Examining the story of a man who once put pencil to paper to turn his luck around, and who made every word count, is the author, barrister and TV personality, Rob Rinder.

Garrulous and gossipy, yet thoughtful and heartfelt, he brings his trademark warmth and wit to gently interrogate one of the world’s leading thriller writers.

A Holocaust survivor’s grandson, Strictly Come Dancing contestant, and regular face on the telly, Rob began hosting the reality courtroom series Judge Rinder in 2014, while still a practising barrister. He is also a Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author, with a series of novels inspired by his experiences as a barrister: The Trial, The Suspect and The Protest.

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The Man Behind the Stories: Lee Child in conversation with Rob Rinder