Catching up with Child and his brother Andrew in Wyoming as Andrew takes over the massively popular series
British authors James, left, and Andrew Grant, brothers who use the pen names Lee Child and Andrew Child, in Tie Siding, Wyo., on Oct. 12. LARAMIE, Wyo. — Lee Child had two ideas for how Jack Reacher, the toweringly popular hero of his long-running series of thrillers, might die. First he thought Reacher would get into one last fight and bleed out on the bathroom floor of a filthy motel.
Maybe it’s not so surprising that Reacher, a cartoonishly American figure, is powered by the imaginations of two British brothers. More surprising is that those brothers lit out West — way West — where they now live in a cartoonishly American setting, a part of rural Wyoming that looks like a billboard for clean living.
And when you’re selling millions of books, it might seem statistically inevitable that some will end up on the bedside tables of figures from Haruki Murakami to heads of state. Andrew got here first. In 2016, he and his wife, the historical-mystery writer Tasha Alexander, decided to move out of their cramped Chicago apartment. They road-tripped to Wyoming, and he was struck by its emptiness. “I’ve never experienced that,” he said, “growing up in a small, crowded island.” The clouds looked like they’d been painted by Georgia O’Keeffe.
Lee always wrote “entirely spontaneously,” making up the mystery line by line — but also with a journeyman’s committed reliability. He’d start a draft on Sept. 1 each year and finish it in 90 days. He made sure to clock in at about 100,000 words, to give readers their money’s worth.
But the answer was obvious. Andrew was too stubborn to pass up a challenge. When he was a child, the easiest way to get him to do anything was to say, within earshot, “Andrew could never do that.” More than that, though, he didn’t want to be the reason the series ended. “Who would want to be responsible for Reacher’s death? Not me.” He set about rereading all of the books, logging key details into a “ridiculous” spreadsheet.
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