Reacher returns for Season Two!
May 2022
Calling all Reacher Fans!
You heard it right, season 2 of #ReacherOnPrime will be based on Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11), written by the legendary Lee Child.
Filming will commence this fall.
Watch season 1 now only on Amazon Prime, all episodes now streaming!
First Look at Reacher: The Series!
December 2021
The countdown begins! Check out the exclusive first look at the new Amazon Prime Original Series, Reacher!
Click on the link here to find out now - Reacher!
Out on 4th February worldwide! Get yourself primed and ready!
Booker Prize Judging Panel 2020 Announced
January 2020
It is with great excitement that we are able to announce that Lee Child has been selected as one of the Judges for the Booker Prize 2020.
Lee has done what few others have achieved in his career, bridging the gap between literary and commercial fans, pushing back at those who claim commercial success and literary merit seldom go hand in hand.
With the likes of Kate Atkinson, Margaret Drabble, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama amongst Lee's 'Reacher Creatures', it's no surprise that his appointment brings an fresh perception to the prestigious award.
As Gaby Wood, Literary Director of the Booker Prize Foundation noted in comments to the Evening Express, each judge's 'powers of perception have broken barriers in their respective fields.' With over 100 million copies sold worldwide, we are sure that Lee's fans and avid readers will keep up to date on all the latest news in regard to this year's historic prize.
Child Controls the Chart
December 2019
With a 6th week at UK No.1, Lee Child continues to dominate the chart with epic new title, Blue Moon.
With recommendations from The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and The Sunday Times, you don't want to miss Reacher's latest quest for justice!
Jack is Back!
November 2019
‘Blue Moon is Lee Child at his very best.’ Reacher returns with a nail biting new thriller straight in at No. 1 after part week sales.
Get ready for intrigue, action and the return of Child’s favourite hero. It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right.
No 1
April 2019
Lee Child's paperback PAST TENSE is emphatically No 1 after part week sales.
This is Lee's 32nd week at Mass Market Fiction No 1 and is his best ever first week paperback with sales of 42,281 (The Bookseller)
The Search For A New Jack Reacher Begins
November 2018
Tom Cruise previously starred as Jack Reacher in two major Hollywood movies but will not be reprising the role for TV.
Lee Child commended Cruise for all his work, saying, “I loved working with him, and he’s a terrific guy, and I loved what he did in both movies, but THE FANS never quite accepted the physicality aspect, so we’re making a change. But I’ll miss him and won’t hear a word against him.”
So the search is on to find a new Jack Reacher and now Lee is calling on fans everywhere to help him look out for an unknown actor (or relative unknown) to play Jack Reacher in the forthcoming series. Let them know!
Lee Child Breaks Another Personal Record
November 2018
Lee Child is No 1 again on the UK Bestseller chart.
Past Tense, the latest in the phenomenal Jack Reacher series, went straight to No 1 on the charts after only 3 days on sale.
Past Tense sales figures are the highest he has ever achieved in this time period.
After less than a week on sale Past Tense is well on the way to becoming the biggest selling original hardback fiction title of 2018!
Lee Child Does it Again
May 2018
Having conquered the UK and holding the No 1 spot for 3 consecutive weeks after Publication The Midnight Line has now gone to No 1 in the US.
The Midnight Line is currently No 1 on 3 seperate lists in the US; Barnes and Nobles, Publisher's Weekly and the National Indie Bestseller List.
An emphatic transatlantic success yet again for Lee Child.
Lee Child Breaks His Own Record
April 2018
Lee Child is No 1 for a second week in a row.
The Midnight Line sales increased by 33% on last week and are his biggest ever full week sales for a paperback.
Incredible.
The Midnight Line is a Richard and Judy Bookclub Pick
April 2018
Lee Child's No 1 Sunday Times Bestsller The Midnight Line is out today in paperback.
It's also a Richard and Judy Bookclub Pick!
https://www.richardandjudy.co.uk/books/The-Midnight-Line/710
Lee Child is a Transatlantic No 1...again
January 2018
The paperback edition of Lee Child's collection of Jack Reacher short stories, No Middle Name, is simultaneously No.1 in the UK and US.
This is a rare feat for an author, to not only be No.1 in both the US and UK at the same time, but also to have a collection of short stories holding the prestigious top spot. This success is truly a testament to the unstoppable Jack Reacher.
It's automatic: Jack Reacher gets off a bus and Lee Child lands on the bestseller list.
No Middle Name Out in Paperback
January 2018
The US paperback edition of Lee Child's Jack Recaher short story collection No Middle Name is out today.
No Middle Name was No 2 on the NYT Bestseller list on publication in hardback in 2017!
No 1's Across the Globe
November 2017
Everyday The Midnight Line (22nd Lee Child novel) achieves another No 1 on the bestseller lists throughout the world.
So far The Midnight Line has achieved the No 1 spot in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and numerous bestseller lists in the US!
Nobody Does It Better.
Latest Jack Reacher Released Today
November 2017
The Midnight Line, the latest installment in the gripping Jack Reacher series, is out in the UK and US now.
The Midnight Line, from No 1 New York Times Bestselling author Lee Child, follows Reacher as he traces a fellow ex student from West Point who has pawned her precious West Point graduation ring. As Reacher tries to get closer to the missing cadet he uncovers a dark conspiracy.
You definitely don't want to miss this one.
Lee Child Continues Transatlantic Success
June 2017
Lee Child has continued his success on the UK and US bestseller charts with his short story collection No Middle Name and his 21st book Night School.
In the UK No Middle Name, now in its’ 4th week, is No.2 on the Sunday Times Hardback Fiction List. Night School, in its’ 10th week, is No.5 on the Sunday Times paperback list. Sales for Night School are so far up by 19% on his last book.
In the US No Middle Name is No.14 on the National Indie Besteller hardback list. Night School is No.2 on the mass market list.
Unstoppable.
Lee Child Breaks Records in Australia
January 2017
Night School is the highest Lee Child new release title that Transworld Australia has ever distributed.
In just 6 weeks Transworld Australia has distributed over 115,000 copies.
Night School has spent 5 weeks as the No 1 Fiction titles on BookScan. This is an improvement on Lee's previous title Make Me which spent 3 weeks at No 1.
In Australia Night School has sold over 80,000 copies, an increase of 14% on Make Me!
A great end of the year for Lee in Australia.
Night School Stays at No 1 for the Third Week Running
January 2017
Lee Child's 21st novel Night School has stayed emphatically at No 1 for the third week running.
The smash hit thriller has sold nearly 10,000 copies more than this week's No 2.
Night School has now sold 93,000 copies in just three weeks.
Terrific!
Child and Reacher Continue to Break Records
November 2016
Lee Child's most recent novel Night School achieved No 1 in the UK Bookscan charts in its first week of sales, with 48,026 copies sold.
This is the highest weekly total of any Hardback Original Fiction title in 2016. It's more than double the previous record which was held by Jeffery Archers's This Was A Man, which sold 20,927.
Night School's first week sales are up by 51% compared to that of the previous Reacher Hardback novel, Make Me.
Truly phenomenal.
Reacher's Transatlantic Success
November 2016
Lee Child's novel Night School has gone straight to No 1 in the US and UK.
It tops the UK Bookscan Chart as well as the US Indie List and Barnes and Nobles List.
This is the 21st Reacher novel for Lee Child, and it keeps going from strength to strength.
Truly, nobody does it better.
Make Me Reaching the Top in the US
September 2015
On the New York Times lists this week, Lee Child's Make Me is the No.1 Hardcover, No.1 Digital and No. combined Hardcover and ebook bestseller. Awesome!
The Only Way is Up for Lee Child
September 2015
Make Me, Lee Child's 20th Reacher adventure, goes straight to the top spot in Australia and New Zealand in its first week of publication.
Jack Reacher Returns...
May 2015
Out in the US on September the 8th...
3 Weeks at No.1 Both Sides of the Atlantic!
May 2015
Lee Child's Personal remained at No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic for 3 weeks running. He still remains No.1 in the US on the NY Times Mass Market Paperback chart.
No.1 on Both Sides of the Atlantic
May 2015
Lee Child's Personal has stormed into the charts at No.1 in both the US and the UK this week in paperback.
This Time It's 'Personal'
April 2015
No. 1 worldwide megaseller Lee Child's 19th Jack Reacher, Personal, is out to buy now in paperback in the UK.
"Lee Child has a way with words. I’m a fan."
James Patterson
"Ripping yarns."
Stephen King
"One of the truly memorable tough-guy heroes."
Jeffrey Deaver
"Gives new meaning to what a page-turner should be."
Michael Connelly
"If I was to be executed at dawn, I would choose to spend the night reading the next Jack Reacher thriller."
Emma Donoghue
Personal is Shortlisted for the National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of The Year!
November 2014
http://www.nationalbookawards.co.uk/award/crime-thriller-of-the-year/
International acclaim for Reacher
September 2014
The Rights Department are thrilled to announce that on Thursday 4th September, Lee Child's 19th Reacher novel, Personal, was awarded the incredibly prestigious Premio RBA de Novela Negra in Barcelona, Spain.
Nearly 250 manuscripts, from writers all over the world, were submitted to the jury which was made up of bestselling thriller writer Lorenzo Silva, award-winning author Soledad Puértolas, journalist and author Antonio Lozano, bookseller Paco Camarasa and President of the Cultural Foundation run by RBA, Juaquim Palau.
Via video-satellite link Lee took part in a live Press Conference from New York, where he answered questions from Spain's biggest newspapers and press agencies.
The jury and Lee Child during the Press Conference
The prize was celebrated at a glamourous award ceremony on the roof terrace of the RBA offices. With views of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia to the North and the Meditteranean Sea to the South, over 1,100 writers, publishers, agents, musicians, actors and politicians attended. Because Lee wasn't able to be in Barcelona, Mary Darby and Clare Wallace were delighted to represent him at the award ceremony. The award was introduced by actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and presented to Mary by President of the Catalan goverment, Artur Mas. Mary passed on Lee's thanks in a short speech.
Mary Darby with the Premio
Lee is due to visit Spain in October to launch the Spanish edition of PERSONAL.
Reacher returns to the No.1 spot
September 2014
We are delighted to announce that Personal has entered the UK hardback bestseller charts at No.1! After just one week of sales, over 29,000 hardback copies of Lee Child's latest Reacher novel, Personal, have been sold. Congratulations, Lee!
Not A Drill - A Reacher Short Story is Out NOW!
July 2014
The brand new Jack Reacher short story, published exclusively as an ebook.
The tiny town of Naismith has nothing going for it - except the start of a wilderness trail through Maine's ancient forests. But one day the trail is suddenly closed by county police.
No reason is given. Rumours start - is there something in the woods that no one must see? That no one must even know about?
Then Jack Reacher drifts into town. What does he make of the Do Not Enter tape strung between the trees?
Includes a preview of Lee Child's heartstopping new Jack Reacher novel, Personal, which is now also available to pre-order.
Another Record for Lee Child
May 2014
Lee Child is No.1 for the 5th week in a row in the US with Never Go Back!
A Month at No.1 For Lee Child in the USA!
May 2014
Lee Child's Never Go Back has now spent one month at the No.1 Paperback position in the US.
Congratulations Lee!
No.1 For Never Go Back
April 2014
Never Go Back by Lee Child has debuted at No.1 in the UK in the paperback chart with almost 25,000 copies after just 3 days on sale!
This is Lee's 12th week at No.1 in the paperback fiction chart over the past five years. Just two writers have spent longer at the top since March 2009: James Patterson and E.L. James.
Janet Maslin’s 10 Favorite Books of 2013
December 2013
"Never Go Back by Lee Child (Delacorte Press). Folks, it takes guts to put a Lee Child thriller on this list. Think of the loftier books it’s replacing. But Mr. Child’s Jack Reacher series is as brainy as it is brawny, and this 18th installment may be its best desert-island reading yet. Starting with an opening sequence that throws three huge surprises at Reacher, there are more neat tricks and clever set pieces in this one volume than Mr. Child has ever strung together before. Best of the best: the doppelgänger in the diner. Read it. You’ll see why" - Janet Maslin
Lee Child Is A Top eBook Seller
November 2013
The Bookseller has revealed that out of the top 50 eBooks that sold over the £2 price, six were penned by Lee Child during the month of September!
The sun never sets on Reacher
September 2013
Lee Child's knight errant, Jack Reacher, will soon be arriving in Mongolia! Mongolian rights in KILLING FLOOR have just been sold to Monsudar Publishers, based in the capital, Ulan Bator.
The international megaselling series is now sold in 97 territories and translated into 42 languages.
Praise pours in for Never Go Back
September 2013
'Child has created an iconic character that other thriller writers try to emulate but don't come close to matching. He has a talent for taking material that in the hands of other authors would be stale and cliched and making it seem fresh and original. This time, he takes a spin on his formula by waving a carrot in front of Reacher's face: a chance to settle down and stay in one place.....Never Go Back is one of Child's best novels.' Jeff Ayers - Associated Press
'Lee Child's bodacious action hero, Jack Reacher, has already tramped through 17 novels and three eBook singles. But his latest, Never Go Back, may be the best desert island reading in the series. It's exceptionally well plotted. And full of wild surprises. And wise about Reacher's peculiar nature. And positively Bunyanesque in its admiring contributions to Reacher lore.' Janet Maslin - The New York Times
Sweet Child Of Ours
September 2013
Reacher reaches total world domination!
Lee Child's Never Go Back has gone straight to No.1 across the market after only three days on sale.
With sales of over 25,000 hardbacks and 35,000 eBooks, the No.2 hardback slot only reaching 4,700 copies, Lee Child is emphatically No.1.
Even the ubiquitous One Direction: Where We Are and Jamie Oliver's Save With Jamie released the same day could not beat the untouchable Reacher. Congratulations Lee!
Crime Writers Association Chair, Alison Joseph writes how 'Everyone Remembers Lee Child'
August 2013
Lee Child once said, 'No one remembers a Lone Ranger story – but everyone remembers the Lone Ranger.' These words sum up the success of the author of the Jack Reacher novels. In Reacher, Lee has created a hero like no other, beloved of millions of readers around the world. He's a character who appeals equally to men and women, to people across the nations: a man who rights wrongs, who stands up to bullies – an essentially good man.
It's a difficult creation to make work, but Lee Child has done it. After a twenty-year career in television, he changed course to become a writer, and set out to write successful novels with an unashamedly popular appeal. His stories are large scale, heart-stopping thrillers, roaming across wide-open global spaces in the cause of thwarting evil.
Perhaps it takes a good man to create a good man. It is impossible to find anyone who will say a bad word of Lee Child. He is a delight to work with, people say; loyal, hard-working, straightforward, generous to readers and to new writers. He combines a successful philosophy about what it is to write best sellers with a huge amount of talent. The CWA is delighted to award him the 2013 Diamond Dagger.
Alison Joseph
Lee Child Wins the CWA Crime Diamond Dagger Award!
July 2013
Lee Child has won the Crime Writer's Association Diamond Dagger award. Congratulations Lee!
Alison Joseph, CWA Chair, said:
"Lee Child's stories are large-scale, heart-stopping thrillers, roaming across wide-open global spaces in the casue of thwarting evil. In Jack Reacher, Lee has created a hero like no other, beloved of millions of readers around the world. And his creator is just as well-loved. He is a delight to work with; loyal, straightforward, generous to readers and to new writers. He combines a successful philosophy about what it is to write best sellers with a huge amount of talent. We are delighted to award him the 2013 CWA Diamond Dagger."
Lee Child receives the CWA Diamond Dagger from Frederick Forsyth at the CWA's gala dinner.
A Wanted Man is the fastest selling paperback of 2013!
May 2013
Lee Child’s JACK REACHER proves yet again that he is A Wanted Man, as he swoops into the No.1 position in this week's UK paperback bestseller list.
After just three days of publication nearly 29,000 copies of A Wanted Man have flown off the shelves. That’s over 12,000 more copies than the title in the No.2 spot sold in an entire week!
And with Martina Cole’s The Life still showing strong sales at No.3 after reaching No.1 last week, that’s TWO Darley Anderson authors taking top slots in the UK bestseller charts.
It has been a fantastic week for the Darley Anderson Agency. Congratulations Lee and Martina!
Lee Child Takes Over New York Times Bestseller List!
February 2013
Lee Child has a staggering 6 titles on the New York Times bestseller and extended bestseller list!
The positions are as follows:
Killing Floor: 5
One Shot: 6
Persuader: 22
Die Trying: 23
Tripwire: 25
Running Blind: 34
Agency authors nominated for national books awards
November 2012
Huge congratulations to Lee Child and David Hewson whose novels have been shortlisted for prizes at the National Book Awards 2012.
A Wanted Man is on the shortlist for the Crime and Thriller of the Year, and The Killing novel has been shortlisted for the audiobook of the year.
Lee Child Is 'a Wanted Man' In The Netherlands
October 2012
Lee Childs success with the 17th Jack Reacher title,
A WANTED MAN,
continues in the Netherlands.
Here it is at the No.1 spot in the esteemed Dutch bookshop AKO!
More Number 1 Spots For A Wanted Man!
September 2012
Number 1 in England, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland!
Number 1 in fiction eBooks!
A Wanted Man remains emphatically number 1 on the hardback fiction bestsellers list this week for a second time, selling twice as many copies as its nearest rival and also reaching the top of the whole hardback list (inc. non-fiction) by several thousand copies.
Lee Child has catapulted into the top of the list internationally as well. A Wanted Man is now No. 1 in New Zealand, No. 1 in Ireland and No. 1 in Australia.
Lee is also No. 2 on the total bestselling eBooks list and No. 1 on the fiction eBook list!!
Connie Ogle at The Miami Herald says of A Wanted Man: "Most appealing of all is Reacher, of course, the tough guy who has become a national favorite, never one to wave the flag but determined to do the right thing and always on hand to give justice a push so that it can prevail....With Child, you can always count on furious action and a damned good time"
Quadruple Bestseller Chart Success!
August 2012
A thrilling result as Darley Andersons authors Lee Child, John Connolly and Chris Mooney dominate the bestseller charts..
Lee Childs A Wanted Man has gone straight to the top of the UK Hardback Bestseller list, whilst The Affair is the No. 1 thriller title of the UK Paperback Chart and No. 5 overall. Lee Child is embracing world domination as he prepares for the blockbuster film release of Reacher starring Tom Cruise in December.
Having secured his 96th territory and 41st language, Reacher mania reaches all four corners of the world with Kazakhstan as the latest fan.
The eleventh Charlie Parker novel, Wrath of Angels, has stormed in at No. 5 on the UK Hardback Bestseller chart and No. 3 in Irish Hardback Bestseller list.
The Independent on Sunday, hails Charlie Parker as The finest crime series currently in existence. Also published this week is Books to Die For, edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke, where the world's greatest mystery writers comment on the world's greatest crime novels. It is a must for all crime addicts.
The Killing House by Chris Mooney is a continuing top 50 success on the UK Paperback Bestseller chart at No. 37.
This is the amazing first novel in a thrilling new series featuring fallen angel and former profiler Malcolm Fletcher. As our very own Lee Child says, Scary voice, scary talent. Mooney is one of the best thriller writers working today."
Lee Child Is 'shining Star' Of Crime Festival
March 2012
To coincide with the release of the Norwegian edition of Gone Tomorrow Lee Child attended the first ever Norwegian Crime and Literature festival - KRIM.
Thousands showed up for the three day event of murders, mysteries, crimes and thrillers. Lee Child took pride of place at the Festival Opening, thrilled fans by giving Reacher readings, he also signed copies and gave interviews for several national newspapers.
As Lee's Norwegian publishers (Tomas and Ann-Louis of Cappelen Damm) said:
'What a down to earth world famous author!'
An English Affair
October 2011
Lee Child has swept the board in the English speaking Bestselling List with The Affair.
He is No.1 on the New York Times Hardback Fiction List; No.1 on the separate e-book list; and No.1 on the combined print and e-book list.
In the UK, he is emphatically No.1 on the Sunday Times Hardback Fiction List. He is the overall No.1 UK Bestseller in all the lists this week.
He is also No.1 in Australia. And No.1 in New Zealand.
A clean sweep.
And a unique achievement for a British adult fiction author.
A Fantastic Week
August 2011
Darley Anderson had a fanstastic week with two of his authors in the top 6 of the Mass Market Paperback Bestseller List.
Lee Child shot straight to No.1 after only three days of Worth Dying For being on sale. Whilst Lesley Pearse spent her sixth week at the top of the charts, at No.6, with her latest novel Belle.
Lesley Pearse has created in Belle a heroine for our times: a strong woman who stands up for right in a world turned bad:
On hearing the news, the Bookseller ran the story: Child's play for Lee as he tops charts and commented "Lee Child's 15th Jack Reacher thriller, Worth Dying For (Bantam), was the bestselling book in the UK last week, scoring impressive sales of 32,275 copies in just three days upon its release on Thursday." (Philip Stone)
All in all a very successful week in the Mass Market Charts.
Award Nomination
July 2011
Lee Child has been nominated for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award.
There are a total of five books that have been shortlisted alongside 61 Hours. The winner will be announced on Thursday 21st July, at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.
The Award was created to celebrate the very best in crime writing and is open to British and Irish authors whose novels were published in paperback between 1st January 2010 and 31st May 2011.
The Terrific Two!
May 2011
Lee Child and Martina Cole have done it again, and are dominating the Mass Market Paperback top spots on both sides of the Atlantic.
In October 2010 we saw The Family by Martina Cole go straight to the top of the Hardback Bestseller list, where it smashed the fiction hardback sales records for 2010 and stayed at No.1 for 8 weeks. At the same time, across the Atlantic, Worth Dying For by Lee Child went straight to No.1 on the New York Times Hardback Bestseller List, where excited fans, who had been dying to find out what would happen to Jack, were getting their Reacher hit.
This incredible achievement for the Darley Anderson Agency, having two authors clinching the top spots on both sides of the World, was repeated again in May 2011. Both The Family and Worth Dying For had their paperback publications and have simultaneously both gone to No.1 on the Mass Market Paperback Bestsellers Lists. The Family by Martina Cole in the UK and Worth Dying For by Lee Child in the US.
Darley Anderson, who has the reputation as the best talent spotter in the book business, has Agented both authors since the very beginning.
One On One
March 2011
In an Amazon exclusive, authors Lee Child and Kate Atkinson have been bought together and asked to interview each other...
Lee Child: This is the fourth Jackson Brodie book. It's starting to look suspiciously like a series! What brought you back this time?
Kate Atkinson: I never intended to write more than the first one -- which was Case Histories -- but I wrote it so quickly -- which was highly unusual for me -- that I somehow felt as if I hadn't finished with the form and the characters. And then it became the 'power of three' and I thought "one more" and then I found I had unfinished business for Jackson and it became four. I honestly don't know how that happened. There is something seductive about the shape of a detective novel, or at any rate of using a detective in a novel, because it gives you a ready-- made dynamic and a reason for introducing characters to whom interesting things happen as opposed to, say, starting with a whole load of people in a bank or an office and thinking so what are their stories, and what's going to happen to them? (Although, even as I'm writing that, I'm thinking oh, actually that sounds quite intriguing).
Child: Your career so far shows you're not afraid to write whatever you choose. It's as if you've been in and out of several different rooms in the house. Is that fun?
Atkinson: Yes! I get bored quite easily but also there are so many ways of writing out there to explore. To run with the house analogy -- I love houses and there are so many lovely ones that I'll never have a chance to live in because life is short and so is money. It's the same with different styles and genres of writing. I hope before I die I manage to write a romantic novel (because I never write any kind of romance) and I would love to be able to write a children's book, but I think they are the most challenging of all.
Child: Is it easier to write the Brodie books than the others? Or harder?
Atkinson: I found the Brodie books easy to begin with, and then very difficult to finish. I haven't actually finished with him yet but at the moment he's taking a holiday somewhere restful. I found the new book really hard but I think I'd just run out of steam with the character. I'm writing something completely different at the moment and it's amazing how much energy I have for it and what a relief it feels! I think the next time I re-visit Jackson it will be with that same kind of enthusiasm -- and he (and I) will be all the better for having taken a break from each other!
Child: You write about Yorkshire with a certain exasperated affection. You were born there, right?
Atkinson: I am actually a patron of the Yorkshire Tourist Board! I think it's true of everyone in exile -- I live in Edinburgh -- no matter how mild the form, that you have a longing for what you have left behind. I think the older you get the stronger that is -- not so much nostalgia, but a feeling that your heart is in another place. I may be kidding myself there and, like Jackson, there are certain parts of Yorkshire that I would never want to re-visit, but like him I think there are places in North Yorkshire that do mark it out as God's Own county. (I don't know why Yorkshire people are so fervently patriotic about their county!) My whole family is settled in Scotland so that kind of prevents me from moving back although I dream about that little cottage in the Dales, Aga in the kitchen, sheep bleating outside the window...
***bestseller*** Top Of The Times
November 2010
Worth Dying For is number one on The New York Times Best Seller list after the first week of sales.
The latest Lee Child Reacher installment has been causing a stir across the board after shooting to No.1 in its first week of publication in the UK and now in the US.
'Forget Sleep, Jack Reacher Is Back' Book Review
'Jack Reacher takes on evil in 'Worth Dying For,' Lee Child's latest page-turner... Don't pick up the latest Jack Reacher novel if you don't have some time on your hands, because "Worth Dying For" is difficult to put down.' The Associated Press
Making Waves Both Sides Of The Atlantic
October 2010
In the final week of October 2010, two of Darley Anderson's authors took the No.1 Hardback Bestseller positions on both sides of the Atlantic.
In the UK Martina Cole's The Family rocketed to the top of the The Sunday Times Hardback Bestseller list (and overall fiction), where it has remained since its publication date. Whilst in the US this week, Lee Child's Worth Dying For proved that it had definitely been worth the wait for Reacher fans, taking prime position on The New York Times Bestseller list after one week of sales. 
''I've got the best Agent in London'' Martina Cole
"Great agents do all kinds of hidden behind-the-scenes work, all day, every day, constantly managing changing situations, and Darley does it better than anyone else - hence the ongoing success of his authors.
If someone worked out a league table of the last five years' worth of chart-weeks-and-positions around the globe, it would almost certainly show that Darley is the world's most successful agent. Gratifying, of course, but again, no surprise."
Lee Child 
I dont think there has ever been a single UK agent who has had a No.1 UK and No.1 US hardback bestseller by different authors at exactly the same time. It is absolutely incredible. Darley is the best talent spotter out there and the most brilliant agent in the business. Madeleine Buston, Head of Rights & Womens Fiction Agent
Transworld Birthday Bash!
September 2010
Transworld celebrated their 60th Anniversary on the 23rd September.
The party was held in the former St. Marks Church. The Agency's bestselling Transworld authors Lee Child and Carmen Reid were in attendance, along with top Agent Darley Anderson.
Glasses were raised to celebrate 60 successful years and the sale of over 750 million books.
***bestseller*** Lee Child's Epic Sales
September 2010
After 8 days of publication, Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher thriller 61 Hours sales are rapidly approaching 100,000 copies.
After a 
record breaking eight days sales, Lee Child has remained firmly at No.1 for the second successive week.
In its second week 61 Hours sold 5,000 copies more than Sebastian Faulks latest and 10,000 more than Cecilia Ahern. Both of which were published on the same day.
To date, a staggering 43 million copies of Lee Child's Jack Reacher Books have been sold around the world. They are available in 78 different countries and have been translated into 38 different languages.
***new York Times Bestseller***
August 2010
61 Hours by Lee Child has spent its 11th week on The New York Times Bestsellers list.
61 Hours, the 14th Jack Reacher Novel, originally went into the No. 1 spot in its first week of publication. In its 11th week the gripping crime novel held position No.35.
"What heats '61 Hours' to the boiling point is Mr. Child’s decision to defy his own conventions. In the interests of pure gamesmanship he seems hell bent on doing everything differently this time..." Janet Maslin, The New York Times .
***prize Winner*** Gone Tomorrow Grabs Gold
June 2010
The animated trailer for Gone Tomorrow has won gold at the PromaxBDA Design Awards in LA.
The video that was commissioned by Transworld Publisher's for the release of Lee Child's Gone Tomorrow.
The video was entered into, and then won the category titled 'Other Design Applications: Music Video or Short Subject'
Every year the the PromaxBDA awards are given out to recognise talent and creativity of promos, commercials and campaigns.
Gone Tomorrow went into the No.1 position on the UK Hardback Bestsellers list and remained in the Chart for 21 weeks. The novel then went on to top the Paperback Bestsellers list and enter into the No.2 position on The New York Times Bestsellers list.
***bestsellers*** Da Authors Take Over The Charts!
May 2010
It has been a fantastic week for Darley Anderson's Authors, who have made up 10% of the Paperback Top 50 Bestseller list.
Milly Johnson and Annie Murray have joined Jane Costello, Lee Child and Martina Cole this week in the Bestseller chart, who between them have already managed to tot up a total of 19 weeks in the list.
Current Positions:
No.4 Martina Cole HARD GIRLS
No.19 Lee Child GONE TOMORROW
No.23 Jane Costello MY SINGLE FRIEND
No.41 Milly Johnson A SUMMER FLING
No.45 Annie Murray SOLDIER GIRL
Soldier Girl is Annie Murrays 14th Novel. Published on the 7th of May, the book sailed straight onto the Paperback Bestseller list after only three days of sales. Soldier Girl is the Story of Molly Fox, who has grown up on the streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her grandfather and her cruel, drunken mother. Although she has grown into a tall, beautiful woman, Molly is trapped by her impoverished past and haunted by terrible family secrets.
Read more about Annie Murray and Molly Fox here.
Following on from a successful book launch, Milly Johnsons fourth novel, A Summer Fling, topped the Tescos chart at No.9 on its week of publication, and carried on to join the Bestseller lists. A Summer Fling tells of a summer that wont be forgotten. When dynamic Christie blows in like a warm wind to take over a department, five very different women find themselves thrown together
Read more about A Summer Fling here.
***bestseller*** Jack Reaches All Corners Of The World
March 2010
Lee Child has been commanding the charts in all corners of the world, with Jack Reacher topping the New Zealand charts, as well as reaching No.2 on the US Bestsellers list.
Lee's latest book, 61 Hours went straight in at No.1 in the International Bestselling Fiction list in New Zealand. The most recent in the Jack Reacher series, has been following in the footsteps of Lee’s last novel, Killing Floor which on release also went in at No.1. Killing Floor has remained firmly in the charts, currently holding on to the No.7 position.
Along with hugely successful sales of 61 Hours in the UK, Australia and NZ, Lee's previous Jack Reacher Novel, went in at No.2 in The New York Times Bestsellers list. Lee has seen a 30% increase in sales across the US, which is fantastic and unheard of in the current climate.
***bestseller*** LEE CHILD STORMS UK CHARTS AFTER ONLY 72 HOURS
March 2010
61 hours shot firmly into the No.1 spot in the Hardback Bestsellers list this week. The countdown to publication of Lee Child’s latest thriller finally ended on the 18th March and after only 72 hours, a phenomenal 26,432 copies had flown off the shelves. His heart stopping new thriller has been receiving fantastic reviews.
‘Child's protagonist is a wandering knight who always finds trouble and inevitably solves it, with satisfying violence. As usual, Child's writing is superb… Fast paced and exciting, this is highly recommended for thriller fans.’ The Library Journal
"This is Child in top form, but isn't he always?" The Booklist
Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm.
There’s a small town twenty miles away, where a vulnerable witness is guarded around the clock. There’s a strange stone building five miles further on, all alone on the prairie. There’s a ruthless man who controls everything from the warmth of Mexico.
Jack Reacher hitched a ride in the back of the bus. A life without baggage has many advantages. And crucial disadvantages too, when it means facing the arctic cold without a coat. But he’s equipped for the rest of his task. He doesn’t want to put the world to rights. He just doesn’t like people who put it to wrongs.
Read more about Reacher at www.leechild.com
***bestseller*** Who's The Daddy?
February 2010
After only three days on sale Lee Child's latest thriller Gone Tomorrow shot to No1 in The Sunday Times Paperback Bestseller lists with 30,000 copies.
Thirteenth in the Jack Reacher series Gone Tomorrow hit the Top No1 spot on both The Sunday Times and The New York Times hardback fiction bestseller lists in 2009.
'No-one kicks butt quite as entertainingly as Lee Child does'- Kirkus Review
Lee Child Hijacks Darleys Angels
September 2009
Lee Child re-named Darley's Angels the Reacher Creaturettes
for a special evening of revels and celebrations. Glasses were raised
to Dr Lee Child and of course to Jack Reacher - transatlantic bestseller
and universal hearthrob.
This
year Lee hit the Top No1 spot on both The Sunday Times and
The New York Times hardback fiction bestseller lists with Gone
Tomorrow.
The Meteoric Rise Of Jack Reacher
June 2009
Mega-selling
Lee Child’s latest thriller GONE TOMORROW is a transatlantic super
hit.
In the US Gone Tomorrow rode high on thirteen different bestseller
lists around the country.
Gone Tomorrow won the No1 slot on The New York Times Hardback
Fiction Bestseller list in its first week.
Altogether Gone Tomorrow spent five weeks on The New York Times
Hardback fiction bestseller list, four weeks on the LA Times bestseller
list, six weeks on the Boston Globe bestseller list, three weeks on
the Washington Post bestseller list and and three weeks on the Wall
Street Journal bestselling fiction list.
UK side Gone Tomorrow spent twelve weeks on The Sunday Times
hardback fiction Bestseller list after hitting the top no1 spot in its
first week.
Gone Tomorrow is no 13 in the bestselling Jack Reacher series
and its success follows on the heels of the previous thriller
in the series - Nothing to Lose paperback - which spent five
weeks on The New York Times bestseller list going in at No3.
Jack Reacher is a smash hit success.
Says Darley Anderson:
"This is one of the all time great thrillers."
Kirkus Review:
"noone kicks butt as entertainingly as Lee Child"
Omaha World Herald:
"...And Gone Tomorrow is vintage Child, a compulsive page-turner
head-and-shoulders above most of today's thriller writers."
***Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale
signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.
Riding the subway in New York at two o'clock in the morning, Reacher
knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of his
fellow-passengers, he becomes sharply aware: one by one, she ticks off
every bullet point on his list. So begins the new heart stopping new thriller
starring today's most admired action hero, the gallant and enigmatic
loner Jack Reacher.
But now Reacher is confronted by a situation so disturbing and deceptive
that the truth eludes him. Has he painted targets on the good guys’
backs?***
Reacher hits Prime
February 2022
The countdown is finally over! The brand new Reacher Series premieres tonight on Amazon Prime.
Alan Ritchson stars in Lee Child's Original No.1 Internationally Bestselling Series!
"If you've loved #Reacher, then this is as close as you will ever get to him on the screen. Trust me: It's perfect."
'Partnering with Amazon Studios for season one of ‘Reacher’ was a total delight – so I’m thrilled we’ll be working together again, for season two' – Lee Child
All episodes now streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime.
Lee Child back at No.1!
April 2020
If you missed the HB now is your chance to get your hands on Jack Reacher's latest adventures in Blue Moon.
Get ready for intrigue, action and the return of Child’s favourite hero. It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right.
Knocking up an incredible 10 weeks at No.1 on the Sunday Times Hardback Bestseller List Blue Moon isn't one to miss.
Lee Smashes the Records
January 2020
After topping the UK Charts for a 9th Week and celebrating a well-deserved Christmas No. 1 Spot, Blue Moon has surpassed even Lee's previous records for most consecutive weeks at the top of the UK Chart!
This is a must read for fans of the series, and the perfect pick for a New Year read!
Higher than the Moon
November 2019
Blue Moon has hit the ground running, racking up No. 1 bestseller positions in all english speaking territories!
Enjoying his third week at UK No. 1 and with further success reaching No. 1 on the New York Times Besteller, the sky (or moon) really is the limit!
Lee Breaks More Records
April 2019
Lee Child's Past Tense paperback is No 1 again this week with sales of 48,234.
This is his biggest single week in paperback since records began. (The Bookseller)
UK Paperback of Past Tense Out Now
April 2019
The Sunday Times and New York Times No 1 Bestseller Past Tense is now available in the UK in paperback.
Past Tense is the 23rd in the international bestselling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child.
Lee Child's 23rd Jack Reacher Novel Past Tense is A Record Breaking, Worldwide No 1 Bestseller
November 2018
No 1 in the US on the New York Times hardback list.
No 1 in the US on the New York Times combined print and eBook list.
No 1 on the USA Today list.
No 1 in the US on the Publishers Weekly list.
No 1 on the US Amazon Most Read and Most Sold lists.
No 1 in the UK on the Sunday Times list.
No 1 in New Zealand.
No 1 in Australia.
The latest Jack Reacher Short Story Out Today in eBook!
October 2018
The Christmas Scorpion is out today in eBook for the first time!
The short story was originally the Christmas Short Story for the Mail on Sunday's last year.
UK Library Most Borrowed Books
April 2018
Lee Child has held the top spot almost continuously on this list since 2010.
For the year to date he's at the top twice. First with the 22nd Jack Reacher title The Midnight Line and second with the 21st title in the series Night School.
Another First for Lee Child
April 2018
Lee Child is now the highest earning Adult Fiction author in Australia and New Zealand.
Nobody Does it Better.
Transatlantic Success Second Week in a Row
January 2018
Lee Child's short story collection No Middle Name is a simultaneous No.1 for the second week in a row in the US and UK!
Another remarkable record for Child and Reacher.
Lee Child Wins Double Silver Medal
January 2018
Lee Child ended 2017 as a double silver medal winner on the Sunday Times Chart.
He won the Silver Medal for bestelling hardback for his 22nd novel The Midnight Line and the Silver Medal for bestelling hardback 2017 with Night School.
The Midnight Line has not only been in the Top 2 since publication 7 weeks ago, but it has also featured consistently on the NYT Bestseller List in the US.
Night School has been on the bestseller list since publication 36 weeks ago!
No 1 Three Weeks in A Row
November 2017
Lee Child's spectacular novel The Midinight Line is No 1 on the UK Bestseller List for a third week in a row!
Awesome!
Internationally No 1
November 2017
Another Jack Reacher novel, another No 1 and another record broken on first part week sales for Lee Child in the UK and US.
The Midnight Line, the 22nd Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child, is No 1 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction List, No 1 on the Barnes and Nobel List in the US, No 1 on Amazon UK and was an instant No 1 on iBooks.
The Midnight Line is also No 1 in both Australia and New Zealand.
This is just the beginning of the phenomena that is Lee Childs' Jack Reacher that will unquestionably claim more No 1's across the Atlantic over the coming week.
Child Charms on Scandi TV!
November 2017
Thanks to Lee Child's incredible success in Scandinavia, he was invited to join Fredrik Skavlan and guests on Friday evening to talk jogging, fish and chips and fighting - and how he came to write the phenomenal global bestselling Jack Reacher series. Skavlan is the show of choice for over 3 million viewers in Norway and Sweden and airs primetime on Friday evenings. You can watch Lee in action here.
Lee's fellow guests are astronaut Jessica Meir and New York Rangers hockey players Henrik Lundqvist and Mats Zuccarello.
The US and UK Love No Middle Name
June 2017
No Middle Name has enjoyed constant success in the US and UK since its publication in May.
In the UK No Middle Name is No 3 on the hardback fiction charts.
In the US it is No.5 on the NYT hardback list and No.13 on the combined list.
He is also No.9 on the US Independent booksellers hardback fiction chart. Night School, in its 9th week since publication, is No.1 on the Independent's mass market paperback chart!
Sensational.
Night School Breaks A Reacher Record
January 2017
Lee Child's 21st novel in the Jack Reacher series Night School is No 1 for the 5th consecutive week.
This is the longest period that Lee has stayed at the No 1 spot.
His previous record was for 4 consecutive weeks at No 1 with Never Go Back, which was released as a film starring Tom Cruise this year.
Happy 21st Birthday, Reacher!
November 2016
Fans will of course know that Reacher, Lee Child’s knight-errant hero, is well past his 21st birthday. However, the publication of the 21st Reacher novel, Night School, was a landmark occasion that merited a champagne reception in London’s Haymarket Hotel to celebrate.
Joining Lee and the agency were some of Lee’s long-serving and dedicated overseas publishers. We were delighted to welcome Ann-Louis Nerem and Tomas Algard from Cappelen-Damm in Norway, Aleksandra Saluga from Albatros in Poland, Tom Harmsen from Luitingh-Sijthoff in the Netherlands and Robert Pépin from Calmann-Levy in France.
Jack Reacher now tops the charts in translation as well as the English speaking world and language rights have sold into 46 territories. We were also thrilled that Steve Fisher, our fantastic film and TV agent, could join us from LA.
Congratulations to Transworld, Random House US, and all of Lee’s foreign language publishers. And most of all, congratulations to Darley and Lee!
Left to right: Tomas Algard, Aleksandra Saluga, Lee Child, Tom Harmsen, Robert Pépin and Ann-Louis Nerem
Triple No 1's for Lee Child in the US
November 2016
Lee Child’s 21st novel Night School has simultaneously topped the US Hardcover print bestseller list, the digital bestseller list and the combined digital and print bestseller list.
A unique achievement for a British Adult Fiction Writer in the US.
Killing Floor Tops 100 Best Paperbacks
September 2015
Killing Floor, the first Jack Reacher novel, published in 1997 has been revealed as one of the 100 best paperbacks of all time by WH Smith.
WH Smith asked their customers to vote for their favourite paperback of all time via social media.
For the full list, click here.
Make Me Making Headlines
September 2015
Lee Child's 20th Jack Reacher novel Make Me goes straight to No 1 in the UK Bookscan charts.
In the US Make Me is No 1 on the prestigious Barnes and Noble Bookseller List. As well as No 1 on the iBooks Bestsller List.
And this is just the beginning...
Another First For Lee Child and Transworld
July 2015
Both Lee Child and Transworld are used to having No. 1 bestsellers but this is another first for both!
Lee Child becomes the first author to have a Sun-tastic Jack Reacher Week in The Sun newspaper. It featured interviews, extracts from Killing Floor that went into the Saturday Magazine and a whole Reacher online hub.
If you've missed any of The Sun's Jack Reacher Week (how could you?!) then you can find more online at http://thesun.co.uk/jackreacher . There you can see videos of Lee Child, a quiz (how Jack Reacher are you?) as well as the sampler download of the first couple of chapters of Killing Floor.
To round off the celebrations of Jack Reacher Week a very special competition was included. The lucky person will win a trip to New York and a meeting with Lee Child himself.
And to go to The Sun's exciting Lee Child event on September the 16th in London visit http://perks.thesun.co.uk/leechild
One Month and Still No. 1 in the US
May 2015
Personal remains at the top for the 4th week running on the New York Times bestseller list!
Chart Topper Lee Child Breaks More Records
May 2015
Personal is already Lee Child's 2nd biggest-selling eBook, with nearly a quarter of a million sales since August 2014.
The paperback of Personal has hit the Official UK Top 50 and Mass Market Fiction No.1 spot for the 2nd week running with sales of 40,000.
Compared to last year's Never Go Back, Lee's paperback sales in the first fortnight are up by 36%!
Personal Dominates Chart
April 2015
Personal has stormed into Bookscan's bestseller chart at No.1 in the UK with a distance of over 20,000 copies between his No.1 slot and the No.2.
This is Lee's 11th top spot on the official UK top 50 since records began!
Personal is The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller of 2014!
January 2015
Personal is emphatically No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic
September 2014
Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher installment, Personal, has entered the New York Times hardback bestseller list at No.1, a staggering 33,000 copies ahead of the No.2 bestselling title.
Congratulations Lee!
No.1 Kindle, No.1 Amazon, No.1 Apple, No.1 Nook
September 2014
Reacher Returns
August 2014
The wait is over. Reacher has returned. The hotly anticipated latest Jack Reacher thriller by the one and only Lee Child, Personal, has hit bookstores in the UK!
Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French President.
Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him.
This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris and then to London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.
"It's the best one yet" Stephen King
"Reacher gets better and better" The New York Times
Child and Connolly Storm Hay
June 2014
On the weekend of the 31st May, the agency visited Hay-on-Wye for the last few days of the annual literary festival, where two of our authors, Lee Child and John Connolly, both talked to tents packed with fans.
John Connolly spoke to a captivated audience of his younger readers about how sci-fi and fantasy are much more widely read than children and teenagers think, for example, The Hunger Games and Divergent. With the use of clips from old news footage, as well as scary films he had watched as a child, John illustrated how sci-fi and fantasy are often not based on the future, as we usually assume, but discuss and dissect matters that are happening in the World today.
A two minute excerpt from Pan’s Labyrinth helped John expose the dark and frightening side of fairy tales, which led him to reveal how he came to write the The Book of Lost Things. John’s fans also quizzed him on the inspiration behind the Gates of Hell in the Samuel Johnson series (the Large Hadron Collider) and where his idea for the devil came from (the 1980's classic, Legend).
It was Lee Child’s first time at the festival and he was in conversation with Sarah Crompton (Arts Editor in Chief, Daily Telegraph) about the Jack Reacher series. Lee told the audience about how he came to writing, how he developed the series and whether he knew it was be a bestseller from the start. Lee admitted that he doesn’t extensively plan his novels; rather he crafts the perfect first sentence and goes from there. He also explained that his books are full of interesting bits of information, or facts, because he himself is deeply interested in trivia. There was a very lively discussion of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in the films, with plenty of audience participation.
Both authors also separately discussed their crime fiction in broadcasts for the BBC. If you would like to listen to John in discussion with Anthony Horrowitz and Yrsa Sigurdottir about crime fiction, click here. To listen to Lee discuss the Reacher series on Radio 4’s Front Row, please click here.
The DA Agency Celebrates its 25th Anniversary In Style With Global No.1s!
May 2014
Darley Anderson has two authors at No.1 this week in both the UK and the USA. A fantastic achievement for the Agency's 25th year!
In the UK, Martina Cole's gripping No.1 hardback bestseller Revenge has hit the No.1 paperback spot this week (after just a few days on sale) knocking Darley Anderson author Lee Child off the top spot.
In the USA, Lee Child has now achieved a month at No.1 with the release of Never Go Back in hardback!
In the UK alone:
So far in 2014, the Darley Anderson Agency authors have dominated the bestseller charts with an author at the No.1 position in paperback or hardback for over a month. That's 5 weeks at No.1 out of only 16!
Not only that, but we have spent 12 weeks out of 16 with an author in the top 10 in paperback or hardback.
Congratulations Darley!
Never Go Back Remains At No.1 in the US 3 Weeks Running!
April 2014
Lee Child's record-breaking Never Go Back has remained at the No.1 spot in the Mass Market Paperback Fiction New York Times Bestsellers chart for the 3rd week in a row!
Never Go Back by Lee Child is out NOW!
March 2014
The hotly anticipated paperback of Lee Child's Never Go Back is out in the shops in the UK from today (27th March).
***No. 1 New York Times bestseller***
Never go back—but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him. . . . Never Go Back is Lee Child’s new novel of action-charged suspense starring “one of the best thriller characters at work today” (Newsweek).
Praise for Never Go Back
“A breathless cross-country spree . . . some of the best, wiliest writing [Lee] Child has ever done . . . Child’s bodacious action hero, Jack Reacher, has already tramped through 17 novels and three e-book singles. But his latest, Never Go Back, may be the best desert island reading in the series. It’s exceptionally well plotted. And full of wild surprises. And wise about Reacher’s peculiar nature. And positively Bunyanesque in its admiring contributions to Reacher lore.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Welcome to the relentless world of Jack Reacher and his impressive tendency to be in the wrong place at the right time. . . . Child has created an iconic character that other thriller writers try to emulate but don’t come close to matching. He has a talent for taking material that in the hands of other authors would be stale and making it seem fresh. . . . Tight and compelling . . . Never Go Back is one of Child’s best novels.”—Associated Press
“An adrenaline-charged, action-packed thriller . . . impossible to put down.”—Lansing State Journal
“The dialogue has never been sharper. . . . The pages turn themselves.”—San Antonio Express-News
“For the pure pleasure of uncomplicated, nonstop action, no one touches Reacher.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Brilliant . . . Child never, ever slips. He keeps the action cranking better than anyone, but, best of all, he keeps us guessing about Reacher.”—Booklist (starred review)
“One of the best in the series.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Lee Child's The Visitor Makes Bookseller's Backlist Best Pick
December 2013
The Visitor, Lee Child's 4th Reacher, led the way for Lee this year in terms of backlist sales.
The Bookseller has named it their No. 1 best backlist pick.
It saw sales rise by a staggering 58% in print this year with over 77,000 print copies sold.
Fourth week at No.1 for Reacher!
September 2013
Once again, Lee Child's hero Jack Reacher proves his superstar status by maintaining his top spot in the UK Sunday Times Bestseller chart.
Never Go Back will seemingly never be beaten, as it keeps hold of that No.1 position for a massive fourth week in a row!
Reacher Reaches Total World Domination!
September 2013
No. 1 in the New York Times Bestseller List
No. 1 in USA Today
No. 1 in UK Hardback
No. 1 on Kindle, Apple and Nook
No. 1 in Australia and New Zealand
No. 1 in the National Indie List
No. 1 in 7 US Regional Lists
High Heat Hits High Heights
September 2013
Lee Child has once again hit the top of the bestseller list with not just one Reacher story but three!
His eBook short story, High Heat, has gone straight to No.1 on the Kindle Single's bestseller list. And Deep Down has come in at No.3 and Second Son at No.6. Congratulations on a fantastic, record-breaking week Lee!
Today Is The Day - Never Go Back Is Out Now!
August 2013
Reacher creatures around the world... Lee Child's Never Go Back is out NOW!
Jack Reacher Wishes He'd Been There To Help
August 2013
Lee Child has sent a special signed copy of his latest Reacher installment Never Go Back (due out in hardback in the UK on the 29th of August and the US on the 3rd of September) to Reacher Creature Pearl Sanger.
After reading in the Northern Advocate paper in New Zealand that 92 year old Pearl Sanger's home had been broken into and torched, also damadging her precious collection of Lee Child books, a kind-hearted man who wishes to remain anonymous got in touch with Lee.
His relationship with Lee Child goes back 14 years when he first reviewed Killing Floor and after hearing of Pearl's predicament and the damadge done to her collection of Reacher books he immeditately sent her a copy with a very special note to her written inside:
"Pearl, Jack Reacher wishes he'd been there to help. Much love, Lee Child."
Pearl Sanger with her copy of Never Go Back
Lee Child is UK AND US No.1!
June 2013
Lee Child is No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic this week - A Wanted Man is the bestselling UK paperback this week and the bestselling paperback in the USA too! Congratulations Lee!
Lee Child Wins Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger
February 2013
The CWA (Crime Writers Association) has announced that the winner of the 2013 Diamond Dagger will be awarded to Lee Child.
Huge congratulations, Lee!
Chair of the CWA Peter James said: 'I am delighted that the CWA has chosen Lee Child as this year's recipient. Lee is one of the few British crime thriller authors to have become a global brand name; he is also an extremely charming and open person and a tireless promoter of our genre.'
The diamond-studded Dagger will be awarded to Lee Child at a gala dinner in the summer.
Reaching the Big Screen
December 2012
WHAT A NIGHT. Jack Reacher finally hit the big screen.
December the 10th was a landmark moment for the DA Agency who all attended the star-studded film premiere of the Tom Cruise film Jack Reacher based on the book ONE SHOT by Lee Child.
Reacher-mania is about to go stratospheric....
Above: The DA Agency. Andrea, Lillian, Darley, Vicki, Steve, Mary, Clare, Jill and Camilla and BELOW: Don Granger, Robert Duvall, Christopher McQuarrie, Rosamund Pike, Tom Cruise, David Oyelowo and Lee Child at the ODEON in Leicester Square, London.
'Tom Cruise is in fine form as mysterious tough guy Jack Reacher' The Hollywood Reporter
'He makes the title role fit him like a latex glove in a winning turn that could spawn a popular new franchise for the star' The Hollywood Reporter
Fans fearing for how Tom Cruise can pull off mega-hero Jack Reacher need not worry as Tom Cruise delivers in every way. As Lee Child says, 'he really nails it'.
'The spirit of Reacher lies not in his height but in his character...thankfully for all of us, Tom Cruise's take on Lee Child's Jack Reacher via Chris McQuarrie seems to settle the argument once and for all.'
'A resolutely hard-edged thriller, a down and dirty Bond that supercedes the expectations of a 12A rating.'
'The cast delivers the twists with confidence and are uniformly top drawer'
'Where action-cinema has been bogged down recently in fast cuts and incoherant fight sequences, here is a movie that has Dirty Harry in its sights and '70s cinema pumping through its veins...McQuarrie marshals his pack with a cocky panache that would be admirable from a seasoned pro, let alone a screenwriter going sophomore' Empire Online
'It can be exhilarating to watch when an actor finds a director they click with. The moment Tom Cruise strides into Jack Reacher, smoldering like an active volcano, that 'click'can be heard loud and clear.' totalfilm.com
Agency Authors Nominated For National Book Awards
November 2012
Huge congratulations to Lee Child and David Hewson whose novels have been shortlisted for prizes at the National Book Awards 2012. 
A Wanted Man is on the shortlist for the Crime and Thriller of the Year, and The Killing novel has been shortlisted for the audiobook of the year.
Da Authors Storm The Charts Both Sides Of The Atlantic
September 2012
Darley Anderson authors take the top 2 spots in the hardback fiction bestseller list in the UK and another number 1 in hardback fiction USA!!!!
Crime queen Martina Cole has gone straight to the top number 1 slot of the hardback fiction bestseller list, with over 20,000 copies of her book The Life sold in her first part week!
For over 20 years Britain's top female crime writer has enjoyed bestselling book after bestselling book with the Darley Anderson Agency.
Last year Martina Cole became the first British female adult-audience novelist to surpass the 50 million sales mark since Neilson Bookscan records began. The phenomenon that is Martina Cole continues...
The Darley Anderson Agency is thrilled to be taking over the top two spots on the UK hardback fiction bestseller list.
Lee Child's 17th Reacher book A Wanted Man is now number 2 on the list after spending 3 weeks at the top spot.
The cult of Jack Reacher is poised for world domination with the release of the blockbuster film starring Tom Cruise, out this December.60 million copies in print, in 96 countries, in 60 languages and still growing....
Number 1 in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK last week.
A Wanted Man has now gone straight to number 1 on the hardback fiction bestseller list in the US as well!!!
All in all a fantastic day for Darley Anderson's authors who are now topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic!
Tom Cruise Tweets For A Wanted Man
September 2012
Top actor and top Reacher fan Tom Cruise goes to Twitter to show his excitement at the release of A Wanted Man.
Tom Cruise is all set to play Jack Reacher himself in the blockbuster version of Lee Child's book One Shot, in the film, Jack Reacher, out this December.
Tom Cruise Reached out to his 3.3 million+ Twitter followers and 2.1 million+ Facebook fans about the September 11th release date of the US edition of A Wanted Man.
Says Tom Cruise on the film: "There are some ass beatings in this. They'll see that it delivers what I love about the Reacher series: the visceral action, those ass beatings and the humor of Lee Child's novels. And the women are fantastic" PLAYBOY (June 2012) PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: TOM CRUISE by Michael Fleming
Darley's Authors Hit The Heights In The U.s.
July 2012
It is a proud moment for the Darley Anderson Agency as our authors smash into the US charts.
Tana French's Broken Harbour has debuted at No. 6 on the New York Times bestseller list!!!
She is also No. 2 on the National bestseller list for all independent bookstores in the US.
Congratulations Tana!!!
Meanwhile, Lee Childs eBook only edition of Deep Down (his 10,000 word Jack Reacher story) is No. 8 on the eBook bestseller list.
But, its also No. 9 on the combined eBook and print bestseller list without there being a print edition and therefore outselling titles available in multiple formats!
Reacher is called to Washington, D.C. to investigate who is leaking key arms data.
The suspects are four women on a fast track up the military chain of command. Real Type-A personalies: smart, busy, focusednot the type to waste time on a hulk, no matter how hunky.
How's Reacher going to charm secrets out of anyone and catch the culprit when there's no time to waste?
Top Kindle Author
March 2012
Jack is reaching dazzling new heights of popularity as Lee Child is pronounced
No 1 British Kindle book author worldwide.
After the record-breaking sales of The Affair catapulting Lee into the Kindle Million club, he has now beaten the likes of Agatha Christie, Terry Pratchett, Jane Austen, David Nicholls and Sophie Kinsella on Amazon's chart of British born bestsellers to remain, once again, emphatically No 1!
Reacher Breaking New Record
September 2011
First day sales in in the US of The Affair, Lee Childs new Jack Reacher hardback and e-book, were a massive 83% higher than previous first day sales of the Worth Dying For hardback/ e-book.
The Affair also went to No.1 on Kindle and No.1 at Apple.
Congratulations Lee!
A Peculier Winner
August 2011
It's official. 61 Hours by Lee Child is the Crime novel of the Year.
Lee Child has been awarded the Theakston Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for his 14th Reacher novel.
Lee was one of six authors to be shortlisted for the prize. The line up also included Mark Billingham and Stuart Macbride.
Here is Lee's reaction when he won: "Oh bloody hell. You know when they say 'I didn't expect to win and so I haven't prepared a speech'? Well, I really didn't expect to win so I haven't prepared a speech! I really didn't expect this! Most of all I'll remember this by following P D James up onto the stagethat really does make it special. Thank you!"
The Kindle Million Club
June 2011
*** Breaking News***
Lee Child has joined the Kindle Million Club!
Amazon.com announced the Lee is the fifth author to join the Kindle Million Club, only made up of authors who have sold over one million e-books in the Kindle store.
The elite club is made up of the incredible Lee Child,
Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts and Charlaine Harris
***bestseller*** Jack's Been Worth The Wait...
May 2011
The Paperback of Worth Dying For has leapt to No.1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List.
Lee Child's 15th Jack Reacher thriller, published in the US on the 26th April 2011, reached the top of the Mass Market Fiction List in the New York Times after its first full week of sales.
"It's hard to imagine a single [human] who won't thrill to this latest Robin Hood fantasy of righteous vengeance."
—Kirkus Reviews
"A situation tailor-made for [Reacher's] blend of morality and against-the-odds heroics..."Publishers Weekly
Worth Dying For will be out in paperback in the UK in August.
Us Hit Parade
November 2010
Both Tana French and Lee Child feature in the influential book critic Janet Maslin's Top 10 Books of 2010.
The list was published on the 23rd of November 2010, and featured in The New York Times.
61 HOURS by Lee Child. The craftiest and most highly evolved thriller in Mr. Childs smashing Jack Reacher series, even if 2010 also brought the too-smashing, more head-busting follow-up, Worth Dying For. In the interests of pure gamesmanship, not to mention knuckle-whitening suspense, Mr. Child threw aside his own conventions and did everything differently this time. Thigh-high snowdrifts, precise logistics and a mania for detail made this the robust, he-man version of a closed-town Agatha Christie story.
FAITHFUL PLACE by Tana French. Ms. Frenchs third novel is an Irish mystery story and a richly enveloping family story too. She draws a piercingly astute portrait of the Mackeys, a Dublin clan riven by old secrets, grievances and sibling squabbles. The unsolved disappearance of a neighbourhood girl, Rosie Daly, once broke the heart of Frank Mackey, her abandoned sweetheart. But it sets off sparks now that Frank is a middle-aged undercover detective and theres a suddenly a chance that Rosie may be found.
***bestseller*** Neck And Neck
October 2010
Lee Child was neck and neck with James Patterson for the No.2 position on The New York Times Bestsellers list, just behind the ubiquitous Stieg Larsson.
61 Hours was published in paperback on the 28th September in the US and has spent its third week in The New York Times Bestseller list.
***bestseller*** Worth The Wait
October 2010
Lee Child took the No. 1 spot on the Hardback Bestseller list with his 15th Jack Reacher thriller, Worth Dying For.
Selling 30,690 copies in its opening week in UK bookshops, this was Lee Child's biggest ever hardback weekly sale.
On the day of release another 536 hardback books were officially published including the wave of celebrity books intended for christmas presents. However Worth Dying For sales remained unphased beating the likes of Jamie Oliver's latest cookbook to the top!
With Lee Child taking top spot in Original Fiction, it has meant Transworld has set a new record, scoring three consecutive Original Fiction No. 1's. Lee Child following on from Jilly Cooper and Sophie Kinsella.
***bestseller*** Child's Play
September 2010
Lee Child rules the Roost for the second straight week in mass market fiction The Bookseller
61 Hours by Lee Child is head and shoulders above the rest having sold well over 100,000 copies of the paperback in its second full week of publication.
Whilst 61 Hours storms the PB charts, the count down has begun for Worth Dying For, the next Reacher installment from Lee Child. Due out on the 30th September 2010.
***bestseller*** Smashing Success
September 2010
61 Hours has leapt in at No.1 on the Paperback Bestseller list with incredible sales of over 39,000 copies.
On Thursday 2nd September over 1,200 books were published, arguably making it one of the biggest dates in publishing. However 61 Hours jumped into the top spot. Pipping Cecilia Ahern and Michael Connolly, among others, to the post of prime position.
When Lee Childs most recent Jack Reacher novel was released in Hardback in March it sold over 26,000 copies in its first week beating Ian McEwan to the No.1 spot. 61Hours has since dominated the charts in Australia, New Zealand and America, featuring in No.1 on all their bestsellers lists.
It appears that when it comes to Lee Child and Jack they are reaching a whole new level of fans.
'Lee Child's 14th Jack Reacher thriller, 61 Hours, sold 39,180 copies in 72 hours... and tops the mass market bestseller list ahead of Transworld stable mate Dan Brown.' The Bookseller
***award Nomination*** Steeling The Show
July 2010
61 Hours by Lee Child is one of seven books shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger was announced at the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate.
The winning author is awarded 2000 and also receives a unique 'steel dagger', which is handcrafted and inspired by the weapon used by Special Forces during World War II.
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***bestseller*** Jack Reacher Conquers The World
May 2010
Published in the US on the 18th May, 61 Hours, by Lee Child has wasted no time in hitting the top spot in The New York Times Bestsellers list (Hardback Fiction) this week.
He has dominated the charts across the World over the last few months, having been No.1 on the Hardback Bestsellers lists in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Now Lee Child can add another territory to the list that 61 Hours has successfully conquered as he creates a storm stateside.
61 Hours is continuing to pick up fantastic reviews....
Former military cop Jack Reacher wanders into a town, finds himself in the middle of some ticking time bomb of a situation, chooses a side and kicks major a** Miami Herald
Rave Reviews For Reacher
April 2010
The day of US publication for Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel, 61 Hours, has finally arrived.
Following on from the success of Gone Tomorrow, 61 Hours has been receiving fantastic reviews over in the US.
Publishers Weekly says Child is a superb craftsman of suspense, juggling several plots and keeping his herrings well-rouged. He doesn't need the 24-like conceit suggested by the title as he counts down to the final confrontation-but it's not a major distraction. Best of all, this is a rare series book that reads like a stand-alone.
Has Lee Child killed off his action hero? This is the 14th book in the Reacher series, so it's plausible the author could finally have tired of him. But readers obviously haven't. The series is a publishing phenomenon. If Child killed off Reacher, his publisher would be the next to go from a heart attack. We'll know for sure later in the year, when another Lee Child novel is scheduled to be released. The popularity of the Reacher series is due largely to its quirky and appealing hero and to the author's talent for sustaining tension on every page. The Associated Press
61 Hours is published in the US on the 18th May.
***bestseller*** Thrilling Sales
March 2010
61 hours stayed emphatically in No.1 position in the UK Hardback Bestsellers list and for the second week running 61 Hours sales eclipsed those of Ian McEwan's literary offering, Solar,in 2nd position.
Says Child in a recent London Evening Standard interview with David Sexton "People think they should really be reading the Ian McEwan but they are reading the Lee Child because they like it better and they feel guilty about that!"
Guilty or not, Lee's second weeks sales, totaled more than the combined figures of Solar and the books in the 3rd and 4th positions.
Here Today: Gone Tomorrow
March 2010
Lee Child’s masterful thriller Gone Tomorrow went straight in at No. 1 in The Sunday Times Paperback Bestseller lists and remained there for two weeks running. Moving into the No. 2 this week
Nearly 30,000 copies of Gone Tomorrow were sold in the UK in THE FIRST THREE DAYS after publication. At the end of the second week on the shelves sales have reached nearly 60,000 copies.
In addition Gone Tomorrow has beaten every other Bestseller Category both this week and last selling more copies than the three other No. 1s combined.
Thirteenth in the Jack Reacher series the hardback of Gone Tomorrow went to No. 1 on both The Sunday Times and The New York Times fiction bestseller lists last year.
'No-one kicks butt quite as entertainingly as Lee Child does'- Kirkus Review
Q&a With Patrick Woodrow
December 2009
Tell us about your latest book, FIRST CONTACT.
FIRST CONTACT is an adventure thriller about a young couple who get lost in a deadly rainforest on the other side of the world. When the book opens they have been missing for twenty-eight hours, and we find them without food, water or hope. Then they stumble across a couple of skeletons in a crashed helicopter and the fun begins.
For readers who loved DOUBLE CROSS, what can they expect in your new book?
There are a number of features that are common to both books, which are part of the brand identity that Im trying to create with my novels. Foremost among these are the exotic locations. DOUBLE CROSS begins in the Caribbean and moves to Malaysia via Amsterdam, London and Singapore. FIRST CONTACT oscillates between Papua New Guinea, London and Cambridge. With both books theres plenty of opportunity for armchair travel. Secondly, my heroes are ordinary people rather than cops or detectives, and its their ability to overcome extraordinary circumstances that sets them apart. I hope this makes it easier for the reader to build a relationship with them. Thirdly, I would suggest that theres a feel-good element to my novels. Theres plenty of violence and some extremely vicious villains but you also get loads of fresh air, sunshine and escapism. Ultimately, the resolution of the mystery should bring a satisfied smile to the readers lips. Finally, there are a number of other similarities, which youll hopefully find in any book I write: feisty heroines, dangerous wildlife, graphic fight scenes and a hook at the end of every chapter.
Why did you decide to go down the adventure thriller route?
Two reasons: one personal, the other commercial. As a kid, I always loved adventure stories. I was captivated by Treasure Island and The Jungle Book. I even started writing my own adventures at the age of six. You can read one of these on my website (www.patrickwoodrow.com). From there it was a natural progression to Willard Price and Wilbur Smith, whose early novels still set the standard for any adventure writer. Like many authors, I simply write the same sort of stuff that I like to read. The second reason has more to do with what I perceived to be a gap in the market. I wanted to do something a bit different – draw back the curtains, throw the windows open and let some air in. Wilbur Smith and Clive Cussler own this space at the moment but there’s definitely room for one or two more.
What made you decide to write standalones?
I did toy with the idea of making Ed Strachan [from DOUBLE CROSS] a series character but I thought that his job as an underwater photographer was a bit too niche. I would’ve had to ingratiate him with some sort of law enforcement agency, otherwise him stumbling on adventure after adventure was going to look a bit contrived by the third or fourth book. And, as anyone who has read DOUBLE CROSS will know, Ed is now retired. He’s quite happy, thank you, lying in his hammock, sipping cold beer, listening to reggae and watching the girls walk by in their bikinis. A lot of people assume that sticking with the same character is somehow easier than starting afresh each time but I’m not sure that’s true. There’s a lot of skill involved in making the same character as real and as interesting in your eighth book as he was in your first. Lee Child is the master of this.
Your books are full of non-stop adventures and danger - where do you get your ideas and inspiration from?
Much of the action is driven by the setting. The sea and the jungle both offer endless scope for interaction with the environment and its wildlife. So too, the mountains, desert or ice-caps. Fact is always stranger than fiction so newspaper articles can also be a great source of ideas. I’ve been fortunate enough to visit the places I write about, so often it’s just a case of imagining what could go wrong while I’m there.
How do you decide on a title?
With great difficulty and usually by process of elimination. FIRST CONTACT was originally called COLD SWEAT but my publisher felt that “sweat” wasn’t a very attractive word and might put people off. So then it became CRASH POINT, which wasn’t bad but perhaps a little anodyne. Next, it spent a month or so as ABSOLUTE RISK, which is a medical term. The hero’s a doctor so this worked quite well. Right up to the point when a friend of mine said it sounded like I was trying to sell insurance. I eventually settled on FIRST CONTACT, which is an anthropological term used to describe the discovery of a new people. One of the main characters in the novel is an anthropologist so this made it very apt. And “contact” is a dynamic, energising word, which demands attention.
What is one piece of advice you’d give to new authors?
If I had to pick one, it would be get a good agent. Seriously. How else are you going to get your manuscript in front of the world’s leading publishers in such a short space of time? And how on earth are you going to negotiate translation rights in Bulgaria, Taiwan and Latvia? Someone once told me that agents are a necessary evil – but that’s nonsense. Writing commercial fiction requires teamwork just like any other business. You’d be a fool to think that you could do it all on your own. To get a good agent you need talent, a thick skin, and clear understanding of who you’re trying to appeal to. When I meet unpublished writers they very often struggle to give a concise summary of their work. If you can’t pitch your book in a maximum of two sentences then you’re probably doomed.
What books do you read when you are not writing?
Not as many as Id like, is the short answer. My wife and I have recently had a baby and I cant see myself settling down with a good book any time soon! Having said that, there are a number of authors that I find it hard to overlook: Wilbur Smith, Lee Child, Boris Starling, Carl Hiaasen and Gerald Seymour all form part of my staple literary diet.
Your books feature incredible countries and cultures, where would you most like to go?
The Middle East and Africa are the two parts of the world that I’m least familiar with but I’m hoping to address that with my fourth book. In the meantime, I’d love to explore the Arctic Circle and see the northern lights. Greenland is somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit but I’m going to have go soon otherwise everything will have melted.
What one book would you take on a desert island?
It would have to be Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Another childhood favourite, they’re a unique blend of imagination, wisdom and humour. And like all good children’s literature they’re often quite dark. Some of them read like adventure stories, others like parables, and some of them are still profoundly enigmatic. As well as entertaining me, they might have some practical value too. Each story demonstrates Kipling’s incredible lateral thinking, which might inspire me to find an ingenious way off the island. Then again, if the diving was any good, I’d probably stay.
And finally, what can we expect next from Patrick Woodrow?
I’m currently working on a third novel, provisionally called HIGH RISK or COLD BLOOD. I can’t decide which is better. Or worse. Having written an underwater thriller and a jungle thriller, we’re off to the mountains next. The story features an experienced alpinist with a short fuse and a thirst for revenge. We start in the Pakistani Himalayas and then move to a secret (and extremely remote) location in the southern hemisphere, via London and Buenos Aires. It’s already shaping up to be my most action-packed book to date. Hopefully it will make The Eiger Sanction look like Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.
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School Of Reacher
August 2009
Lee
Child has set up a series of scholarships for students at
Sheffield University, in the name of his iconic hero Jack Reacher.
A graduate of the university and visiting professor Lee
will fund 52
Jack Reacher scholarships worth £2000 each.
Lee says: “It’s upsetting to see bright and dedicated students contemplate giving up their studies due to financial pressures. Like my literary character Jack Reacher, if I see things are wrong then I want them put right.”
To seal the deal Lee met the students at the Fat Cat pub in Kelham Island to enjoy the specially brewed Jack Reacher ale - slightly dark, mid-strength.