Cambridge lecturer and uber Reacher aficionado Andy Martin, recently spent a year looking over Lee Child's shoulder as the author wrote Make Me, his twentieth novel featuring Jack Reacher.



Andy's a cool dude. He's written books on Sartre and Camus, is an expert on existentialism and a dedicated surfer. He's also the first academic to shadow a bestselling author and witness a master of the genre creating a thriller in real time. Hopefully upsetting a few elitists and destroying the literary/genre fiction binary, he provides a critical analysis citing hallowed literary theorists. See the annotated Reacher here.




There's a wonderful interview with Andy and Lee in the New York Times which should whet your appetite and encourage you to delve into this brilliant meta-book, a book written about the writing of a book, and the world of Lee Child. Read it here.

I'm going back to my copy of Reacher Said Nothing now to immerse myself once again in a tome that simultaneously stokes my inner Reacher nerd as well as my English lit lecturer alto-ego with its talk of Derrida and Barthes. Christmas has come all at once. Turns out Andy is an Angela McGlynn fan too.