Lee Child: ‘You’ve got to write in a way that, in the reader’s head, something vivid is happening’
For someone who, by his own admission, has been ‘high since 1969’, the bestselling thriller writer Child is a sharp and articulate interviewee.
Lee Child is a striking-looking individual. Sprawled uneasily in the lounge area of the Gibson Hotel in Dublin, he is somewhere between Roald Dahl’s Big Friendly Giant and his own lead character from his bestselling books, the mysterious former military major Jack Reacher. A tall man clad in a tawny trench coat, Child’s hands are remarkably large, his figure is gaunt, ...
