My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.