Andy Martin is the author of Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me.  He writes for The Independent and The New York Times and teaches at the University of Cambridge. His book on surfing, Walking on Water, is a cult classic

• Foreword Before: ‘A Lot of Writers are Like That, They Start with Dialogue’ Fall1 The Gorgeous Feeling2 The Dearth of the Author3 Before Midnight4 Like a Cockroach5 The Zipless Fuck6 Mysterious7 The Pressure Keeps Building8 I’m not an Author9 Having an Orgasm, Standing Up10 Stephen King is Shocked11 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 Child13 The Deranged, Obsessive Fan14 Lunch with Lydia Lair15 On Tour with Lee Child: Publisher’s Schedule16 Comment on that ‘Gruelling’ Publicity Schedule17 A Novel without Reacher18 Lee Child’s Ultimate Nightmare19 Inside Fort Z20 In the Four Seasons, Washington DC21 Where did you get the Folding Toothbrush from?22 Precursors of Reacher23 How to Say ‘Said’24 Is Make me Funny?25 Reacher The Reader26 Breakfast, Sunday, 27 September 201527 A Binary Praxis of Antagonistic Reciprocity28 Back to School29 Can I Help you?30 Cup of Tea, With a Side Order of Napkin31 ‘You’re not Going to Believe this, But …’32 Jouïssance33 On the First Chapter of Lee Child’s Make me34 His Dying wish Winter35 Carl (1)36 Elsa (The Opposite of the Toothbrush)37 The Man who Refused to Read Make me38 Mamma Mia! (× 5)39 Jack Reacher vs Lisbeth Salander40 Carl (2)41 Misery42 Book Ends43 Sam44 Clueless45 Karina46 Zeno and the Art of the Head-Butt47 Reacher vs West Germany48 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 Child50 Ennui51 The Woman who Hated Reacher52 Tom53 Psychosocial Acceleration Theory (Never go back)54 While Reacher Sleeps55 Fanmail Spring56 The Fortune Cookie57 Fear and Firearms in Las Vegas58 The Letters Pages of the London Review of Books59 A Blonde Walks through the Door with a Gun in her Hand60 The End of that Conversation, In which Lee Compares himself to Homer61 Tweets62 300 Pages, One Insight63 The Function of Crime64 Crimethrillergirl65 The End of the NovelAfter: In Case you Wanted to know What Happened to that Romance with ChangAcknowledgements

"You don’t even have to be a 'Reacher creature' (as the fans are known) to enjoy this sly, fly-on-the-wall take on the blockbuster production line."The Sydney Morning Herald

Andy Martin is the author of Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me.  He writes for The Independent and The New York Times and teaches at the University of Cambridge. His book on surfing, Walking on Water, is a cult classic

• Foreword Before: ‘A Lot of Writers are Like That, They Start with Dialogue’ Fall1 The Gorgeous Feeling2 The Dearth of the Author3 Before Midnight4 Like a Cockroach5 The Zipless Fuck6 Mysterious7 The Pressure Keeps Building8 I’m not an Author9 Having an Orgasm, Standing Up10 Stephen King is Shocked11 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 Child13 The Deranged, Obsessive Fan14 Lunch with Lydia Lair15 On Tour with Lee Child: Publisher’s Schedule16 Comment on that ‘Gruelling’ Publicity Schedule17 A Novel without Reacher18 Lee Child’s Ultimate Nightmare19 Inside Fort Z20 In the Four Seasons, Washington DC21 Where did you get the Folding Toothbrush from?22 Precursors of Reacher23 How to Say ‘Said’24 Is Make me Funny?25 Reacher The Reader26 Breakfast, Sunday, 27 September 201527 A Binary Praxis of Antagonistic Reciprocity28 Back to School29 Can I Help you?30 Cup of Tea, With a Side Order of Napkin31 ‘You’re not Going to Believe this, But …’32 Jouïssance33 On the First Chapter of Lee Child’s Make me34 His Dying wish Winter35 Carl (1)36 Elsa (The Opposite of the Toothbrush)37 The Man who Refused to Read Make me38 Mamma Mia! (× 5)39 Jack Reacher vs Lisbeth Salander40 Carl (2)41 Misery42 Book Ends43 Sam44 Clueless45 Karina46 Zeno and the Art of the Head-Butt47 Reacher vs West Germany48 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 Child50 Ennui51 The Woman who Hated Reacher52 Tom53 Psychosocial Acceleration Theory (Never go back)54 While Reacher Sleeps55 Fanmail Spring56 The Fortune Cookie57 Fear and Firearms in Las Vegas58 The Letters Pages of the London Review of Books59 A Blonde Walks through the Door with a Gun in her Hand60 The End of that Conversation, In which Lee Compares himself to Homer61 Tweets62 300 Pages, One Insight63 The Function of Crime64 Crimethrillergirl65 The End of the NovelAfter: In Case you Wanted to know What Happened to that Romance with ChangAcknowledgements

"You don’t even have to be a 'Reacher creature' (as the fans are known) to enjoy this sly, fly-on-the-wall take on the blockbuster production line."The Sydney Morning Herald

Andy Martin is the author of Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me.  He writes for The Independent and The New York Times and teaches at the University of Cambridge. His book on surfing, Walking on Water, is a cult classic

• Foreword Before: ‘A Lot of Writers are Like That, They Start with Dialogue’ Fall1 The Gorgeous Feeling2 The Dearth of the Author3 Before Midnight4 Like a Cockroach5 The Zipless Fuck6 Mysterious7 The Pressure Keeps Building8 I’m not an Author9 Having an Orgasm, Standing Up10 Stephen King is Shocked11 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 Child13 The Deranged, Obsessive Fan14 Lunch with Lydia Lair15 On Tour with Lee Child: Publisher’s Schedule16 Comment on that ‘Gruelling’ Publicity Schedule17 A Novel without Reacher18 Lee Child’s Ultimate Nightmare19 Inside Fort Z20 In the Four Seasons, Washington DC21 Where did you get the Folding Toothbrush from?22 Precursors of Reacher23 How to Say ‘Said’24 Is Make me Funny?25 Reacher The Reader26 Breakfast, Sunday, 27 September 201527 A Binary Praxis of Antagonistic Reciprocity28 Back to School29 Can I Help you?30 Cup of Tea, With a Side Order of Napkin31 ‘You’re not Going to Believe this, But …’32 Jouïssance33 On the First Chapter of Lee Child’s Make me34 His Dying wish Winter35 Carl (1)36 Elsa (The Opposite of the Toothbrush)37 The Man who Refused to Read Make me38 Mamma Mia! (× 5)39 Jack Reacher vs Lisbeth Salander40 Carl (2)41 Misery42 Book Ends43 Sam44 Clueless45 Karina46 Zeno and the Art of the Head-Butt47 Reacher vs West Germany48 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 Child50 Ennui51 The Woman who Hated Reacher52 Tom53 Psychosocial Acceleration Theory (Never go back)54 While Reacher Sleeps55 Fanmail Spring56 The Fortune Cookie57 Fear and Firearms in Las Vegas58 The Letters Pages of the London Review of Books59 A Blonde Walks through the Door with a Gun in her Hand60 The End of that Conversation, In which Lee Compares himself to Homer61 Tweets62 300 Pages, One Insight63 The Function of Crime64 Crimethrillergirl65 The End of the NovelAfter: In Case you Wanted to know What Happened to that Romance with ChangAcknowledgements

"You don’t even have to be a 'Reacher creature' (as the fans are known) to enjoy this sly, fly-on-the-wall take on the blockbuster production line."The Sydney Morning Herald