Lee Child, as Jim Grant is now known, sits in his office in Manhattan. He’s 6-foot-5 and has a blandly handsome face. It recalls a line Child once wrote about Jack Reacher:
“His face looked like it had been chipped out of rock by a sculptor who had ability but not much time.”
Child created Reacher from the smoldering embers of his own rage. …
The Curious Case of Lee Child

Click on the photo to read Jim Grant’s story. I’m amazed that a Brit from the TV industry so convincingly writes as an American ex-military cop.