Lee Child - pseudonym. Real name - Jim Grant (Jim Grant) - British writer, author of popular thrillers about the adventures of former American military policeman Jack Reacher. Born in 1954 in Coventry, in the central part of England, which is a huge industrial area. According to him, until the age of twelve I did not see a single tree. "It was a place," Child recalled, "where the clincher in the argument was sharpening and the bike chain." He is now ready to demonstrate his scars.