Jack Reacher's revenge... on his own mother: How Lee Child - one of Britain's greatest thriller writers - forged his vigilante hero from the agonies of his youth and the mum who despised him When Lee Child's mother Audrey died in September 2017, aged 90, he didn't go to her funeral: he had something else planned that day. He thought he wasn't going to a funeral of someone he disliked. The author, who was born James Grant, has retired and passed on his Jack Reacher character, played by Tom Cruise, right, to his younger brother Andrew Grant. In a biography, the author tells of his unhappy childhood with his mother and father, inset.
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