'If anyone can put down Worth Dying For after the first few pages, then they shouldn't really be reading thrillers at all' Independent
There's trouble in the deadly wilds of Nebraska .
A sequel to the terrific
61 Hours (try to read it first)... one of the
great storytellers of the thriller genre
His is an ironclad storytelling ethos, a
gift for narrative that
grips like the proverbial vice... Reacher, as ever, is sui generis - a violent force for good set down by the author to eliminate evil and move on. But what counts is Child's ability to keep the reader turning the pages.
If anyone can put down Worth Dying For after the first few pages, then they shouldn't really be reading thrillers at allAs a warrior who lacks a car, credit card, phone or weapon of his own, and has no continuing human ties or home, he is even more of a lone, denuded
outsider than Lisbeth
Salander, the heroine of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. Both are
avengers who play on our atavistic instincts: when we cheer their
lethal justice - if we do - we're acknowledging the pull of a primitive hatred that demands death and can't wait,
scornful of the protracted pussyfooting of the law
Worth queuing up for
Explosive as ever
Lee Child is one of the world's leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.