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Lee Child

1954 - Today

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James Dover Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Child has received more than 4,646,686 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Lee Child is the 1,322nd most popular writer (up from 1,507th in 2019), the 999th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,200th in 2019) and the 120th most popular British Writer.

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  • 4.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Killing floor
Fiction, Private investigators, Jack Reacher (Fictitious character)
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
1997
Persuader (Jack Reacher)
2003
Tripwire
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Private investigators, Murder
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on.
1999
Echo burning
Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Jack Reacher (Fictitious character)
Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver Post), and "perfect" (The New York Times Book Review). Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl...and she has married into the wrong family. They're called the Greers. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now. Lawyers can't help. Cops can't be trusted. So Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm. Within days, Carmen's husband is dead-and simmering secrets send Echo, Texas, up in flames.
2001
Bad Luck and Trouble
Detective and mystery stories, Jack Reacher (Fictitious character), Serial murders
From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Child’s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends…and is on its way to something even worse. A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back—no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying story—about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they don’ t know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missing—and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism. For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his life—and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they’d better be ready for what comes right back at them…
2007
Persuader
Drug traffic, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories
Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once…not ever. But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business. Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it…justice.
2003

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lee Child ranks 1,322 out of 7,302. Before him are Sadegh Hedayat, Rasul Gamzatov, Zachris Topelius, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Khaqani, and Anthony Bourdain. After him are Khaled Hosseini, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Blaise de Vigenère, Odo of Cluny, and Artemidorus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Lee Child ranks 54. Before him are Dennis Quaid, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Mordechai Vanunu, Uli Stielike, Marian Gold, and Michael Dudikoff. After him are Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Sezen Aksu, Michael Moore, Yanni, Catherine O'Hara, and Kailash Satyarthi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lee Child ranks 999 out of 8,785. Before him are Damon Hill (1960), Naomi Campbell (1970), Richard Hamilton (1922), Ewan McGregor (1971), Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham (1670), and Mary Ann Nichols (1845). After him are Antony Flew (1923), Alexander III of Scotland (1241), Henry Briggs (1561), Ian Curtis (1956), Jill Ireland (1936), and Bill Shankly (1913).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lee Child ranks 120. Before him are Lobsang Rampa (1910), Thomas Chatterton (1752), Alma Reville (1899), Matthew Lewis (1775), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), and Neil Gaiman (1960). After him are Allan Pinkerton (1819), James Murray (1837), Robert Browning (1812), Jane Hawking (1944), Seamus Heaney (1939), and Winifred Wagner (1897).

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