With Child

[i][b]With a foreword by [/b][b]Lee[/b][b] Child.[/b][/i]Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. [i]With Child[/i] is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of [i]Make Me[/i], the writing of [i]Night School[/i] at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of [i]Never Go Back[/i] in New Orleans, all the agony and ecstasy of the creative process and the sheer hard work of selling a bestseller. They go on the road together, from TV studios to bookstores, from Harvard to Stockholm, amid literary conferences and gunshows, rivalries and reviews ranging from adulatory to murderous. We meet fellow w…