In 2007, Grant collaborated with 14 other writers to create the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript, narrated by Alfred Molina. Although English, he deliberately chose to write American-style thrillers. Grant has characterised the books as revenge stories – "Somebody does a very bad thing, and Reacher takes revenge" – driven by his anger at the downsizing at Granada.
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Some books in the Jack Reacher series are written in the first person, while others are written in the third person. Grant has said that he chose the name Reacher for the central character in his novels because he himself is tall and when they were grocery shopping his wife Jane remarked: "'Hey, if this writing thing doesn't pan out, you could always be a reacher in a supermarket.'. "Child" places his books alphabetically on bookstore and library shelves between crime fiction greats Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie. Calling anything "Lee" became a family gag. His pen name "Lee" comes from a family joke about a heard mispronunciation of the name of Renault's Le Car, as "Lee Car". He starts each new book of the series on an anniversary of his starting the first book after losing his job. Writing career Īfter being made redundant from his job because of corporate restructuring, Grant decided to start writing novels, stating they are "the purest form of entertainment." In 1997, his first novel, Killing Floor, was published, and he moved to the United States in the summer of 1998. He worked at Granada from 1977 to 1995 and ended his career there with two years as a trade union shop steward. Grant was involved in the transmission of more than 40,000 hours of programming for Granada, writing thousands of commercials and news stories. There he was involved with shows including Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker.
Grant joined Granada Television, part of the UK's ITV Network, in Manchester as a presentation director. He received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Degree from the University of Sheffield in 1977 and returned to the University to receive an Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) in 2009. After graduating, he worked in commercial television. In 1974, at the age of 20, Grant studied law at University of Sheffield, though he had no intention of entering the legal profession and, during his student days, worked backstage in a theatre. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. Grant attended Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11.
Grant's family relocated to Handsworth Wood in Birmingham when he was four years old so that the boys could receive a better education. He is the second of four sons his younger brother, Andrew Grant, is also a thriller novelist. His Irish father, who was born in Belfast, was a civil servant who lived in the house where the singer Van Morrison was later born.
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