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Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series. Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment. The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012. Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born. Lee spends his spare time reading, listening to music, and watching the Yankees, Aston Villa, or Marseilles soccer. He is married with a grown-up daughter. He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise.

La vittima designata pdf by Lee Child

Xavier Francis Quinn: un nome rimasto nella memoria di Jack Reacher sin dai tempi in cui era maggiore della polizia militare. Un criminale, un traditore del suo paese e, soprattutto, un sadico assassino che ha ucciso barbaramente una collega di Jack che stava indagando su di lui ed era vicina a incastrarlo.Sono trascorsi dieci anni e, dopo una sparatoria di incredibile violenza, Reacher si trova, come sempre, nel posto sbagliato al momento sbagliato. O forse no. Perché adesso Reacher è tornato a lavorare con l'FBI, convinto da Susan Duffy, un'affascinante e coraggiosa federale, a infiltrarsi in una bandadi trafficanti. L'obiettivo è cercare di salvare un'agente sotto copertura sparita da più di due settimane. Ma Reacher sa per certo che dietro tutta l'organizzazione c'è il suo nemico, Quinn, e vuole due cose sole: giustizia e vendetta. Per ottenerle è disposto a giocare il tutto per tutto, anche la suastessa vita... Lee Child si conferma ancora una volta maestro del thriller d'azione con un romanzo ad alto tasso di adrenalina e un eroe credibile e realistico anche nelle azioni più spericolate.