On the eve of a third season for the streaming drama based on his sleuth hero, the author talks his coffee and pot addictions, his role as Booker Prize judge, and why he left the US the day Trump won.
The creator of the best-selling Jack Reacher crime novels plans to spend most of the next four years in the Lake District. Alamy
Lee Child shouldn’t be here. The master of the killer thriller is supposed to be “a retired guy”, enjoying the fruits of his 28-year writing career: the four homes, the lifetime earnings he estimates at $US200 million ($314 million), the Renoir and the Faberge watch that “cost more than my Jaguar”.
After writing 24 bestselling novels featuring his all-American “knight errant” Jack Reacher, he handed the baton over to his novelist brother Andrew, 15 years his junior – working on four books together before leaving the youngest Child to it.
