Lee Child
Lee Child
Jim Grant, better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer known for the Jack Reacher book series. This follows the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 October 1954
teacher school kids
I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.
not-afraid not-afraid-of-death afraid-of-death
I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.
mean two bags
To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.
men doors order
He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.
hands said wrists
Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.
running war july
This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again.
mother giving long
I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
men people leave-me-alone
No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
redneck tree ugly
He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.
good-morning beauty live-life
The first day of the rest of my life.
wise fighting men
The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.
armadillos knows smarter
I know I'm smarter than an armadillo
middle-of-nowhere faces giants
Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.
broke toothbrushes
Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.