Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of

On September 1, 1994, Lee Child went out to buy the paper to start writing his first novel, in pencil. The result was Killing Floor, which introduced his hero Jack Reacher. Twenty years later, on September 1, 2014, he began writing his twentieth novel in the series, Make Me. Same day, same writer, same hero. The difference, this time, was that he had someone looking over his shoulder. Andy Martin, uber Reacher fan, Cambridge academic expert on Sartre and Camus, and surfer, sat behind him in his office and, with Child's permission, watched him as he wrote. While Lee was writing his Reacher book, Andy was writing about the making of Make Me. Reacher Said Nothing is a book about an author writing a book. An instant meta-book. It may be the first of its kind.