America has a macho problem. Too much of our culture is informed by the idea of manhood being defined by toughness. We love the idea of the bad ass as the good guy, doling out physical justice to those who have it coming.
15 Seconds is a revenge story -- in reverse. Here, the good guy is receiving and the bad guy is delivering the revenge, gruesome revenge. What makes the story work so well is the compassion you may feel for the killer, as twisted as he is.
There's nothing wrong with Jack Reacher that couldn't be helped by losing 15 or 20 minutes of exposition and other kinds of explaining.
Some people want me to stick to gossip but frankly, I can't. There isn't any gossip right now worth going on about. At least, the political game has been lively and the principle players are all fascinating, even the ones I find kind of weird.
I can't wait to see Tom Cruise at Christmas playing my hero, Lee Child's vigilante "Jack Reacher." Mr. Child's books have a champion he dreamed up in readable novel after novel.
LONDON -- It will be the world's most literary mortuary. Ten leading crime writers are competing for the honor of having a morgue named after them....
The Affair is rife with testosterone and riddles, laden with beautiful women and bad men, and although brutal, cynical, and provoking, it is a richly satisfying good read.
UPDATE: Cruise's team has confirmed the casting, announcing on his website that he will play Reacher in "One Shot," describing the film as such: In...
(NASDAQ:AMZN)--Amazon.com today announced that Lee Child and Suzanne Collins are the fifth and sixth authors to sell over one million Kindle books, be...
Here are a couple of the best thrillers I have read recently -- some new, some familiar authors. Enjoy!
It was a bold idea. Gather many of the world's finest thriller writers and challenge each one to compose a chapter during a two-week window before handing it off to the next author.
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Confession" by John Grisham (Doubleday)...
Last weekend the mother of all crime fiction conferences was held in San Francisco. Dubbed "Bouchercon" to honor Anthony Boucher, a crime fiction writ...
Forget Kindles and iPads and Sony Readers and Nooks. While traditional publishers and e-tailers battle for readers, I've discovered another kind of electronic reading experience: audiobooks.
Take it from your Uncle Stevie -- book lovers on your shopping list will thank you for the gift of any of these rockin' reads....
What do authors think of the new electronic replacements for bound paper? Some are traditionalists who want nothing to do with electronic readers -- o...
TITLE: "Nothing To Lose" AUTHOR: Lee Child (The Jack Reacher Series) GENRE: Muscular Mystery LENGTH: 14 hours, unabridged PUBLISHER: ...
