Andy Martin - With Child

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2 Front Matter With Child Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher Andy Martin polity

3 Foreword FOREWORD Andy Martin’s extraordinary Reacher Said Nothing was a day-to-day account of the writing of my twentieth novel, Make Me . The idea was he should witness the first word, the last, and everything in between, and he did. Job done. But naturally we stayed in touch afterward, and he joined me for some of the launch events, six months after that last word was recorded. It seemed only fair – he had witnessed the long gestation, and he wanted to see the birth. Which meant he saw the book’s early reception, and heard from its early readers. Which led to another idea. We had talked a lot over the previous year, about the minutest minutiae of sentence construction, punctuation, word choice, and so on, but also about larger issues, one of which was my firm belief that writing and reading is a two-way street. First a book is written, then it is read, and only then does it exist. Readers create the story in their own heads, literally, at that point expending their own mental energy, burning their own calories. We agreed that the reader’s sense of what the book is about is just as determinative as the writer’s. Andy was talking to the readers, listening to them, hearing their opinions. It struck both of us that Reacher Said Nothing was only half the story – the writer’s half. We felt the readers’ half should be recorded too. Hence this new addition. It completes the circle, and it tells me what the book I wrote is really about. Lee Child New York 2018

4 Before: ‘A Lot of Writers are Like That, They Start with Dialogue’

5 Fall 1 The Gorgeous Feeling 2 The Dearth of the Author 3 Before Midnight 4 Like a Cockroach 5 The Zipless Fuck 6 Mysterious 7 The Pressure Keeps Building 8 I’m not an Author 9 Having an Orgasm, Standing Up 10 Stephen King is Shocked 11 A Frustratingly One-Way Telephone Conversation (Except Just at the End) 12 Attempt at an Exhaustive Description of People at Barnes & Noble Who were Having their Photographs taken with Lee Child 13 The Deranged, Obsessive Fan 14 Lunch with Lydia Lair 15 On Tour with Lee Child: Publisher’s Schedule 16 Comment on that ‘Gruelling’ Publicity Schedule 17 A Novel without Reacher 18 Lee Child’s Ultimate Nightmare 19 Inside Fort Z 20 In the Four Seasons, Washington DC 21 Where did you get the Folding Toothbrush from? 22 Precursors of Reacher 23 How to Say ‘Said’ 24 Is Make me Funny? 25 Reacher The Reader 26 Breakfast, Sunday, 27 September 2015 27 A Binary Praxis of Antagonistic Reciprocity 28 Back to School 29 Can I Help you? 30 Cup of Tea, With a Side Order of Napkin 31 ‘You’re not Going to Believe this, But …’ 32 Jouïssance 33 On the First Chapter of Lee Child’s Make me 34 His Dying wish

6 Winter 35 Carl (1) 36 Elsa (The Opposite of the Toothbrush) 37 The Man who Refused to Read Make me 38 Mamma Mia! (× 5) 39 Jack Reacher vs Lisbeth Salander 40 Carl (2) 41 Misery 42 Book Ends 43 Sam 44 Clueless 45 Karina 46 Zeno and the Art of the Head-Butt 47 Reacher vs West Germany 48 But who is Going to Play Lee Child in the Movie? 49 Two New York Scenes, On the Same Day, Containing Antithetical Reactions to Lee Child 50 Ennui 51 The Woman who Hated Reacher 52 Tom 53 Psychosocial Acceleration Theory (Never go back) 54 While Reacher Sleeps 55 Fanmail

7 Spring 56 The Fortune Cookie 57 Fear and Firearms in Las Vegas 58 The Letters Pages of the London Review of Books 59 A Blonde Walks through the Door with a Gun in her Hand 60 The End of that Conversation, In which Lee Compares himself to Homer 61 Tweets 62 300 Pages, One Insight 63 The Function of Crime 64 Crimethrillergirl 65 The End of the Novel

8 After: In Case you Wanted to know What Happened to that Romance with Chang

9 Acknowledgements

10 End User License Agreement

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