![]() ![]() He didn’t exactly get to beat up his boss, but he has certainly been able to survive without a job – and launched his new life with a book, Killing Floor (1997), in which a corrupt town official shared a surname with Granada’s then director of programmes Steve Morrison. Grant’s exercise in wish-fulfilment fantasy now stands as an exemplary case of the dream come true. “To give people what they don’t get in real life.” “What is the purpose of fiction?” he asked in his non-fiction book, The Hero (2019). The phenomenal success of the Jack Reacher books – the 20-plus bestsellers, the 100 million copies sold, the admirers ranging from Margaret Drabble to Bill Clinton – have done nothing to disturb Child’s basic tenet. The proximity of writer and reader, or the writer’s status as proxy-reader, was intensified by his decision to proceed without a plan, so that the story was decided, almost one sentence at a time, by what Grant himself wanted to see happen. Grant’s plan was to write a thriller offering what he variously called “a surrogate, vicarious, escapist mood”, an “escapist feeling”, and a sense of “escapist identification” for those who could only imagine living without a job or beating up their boss. Union-busting had radically altered the industry. He was 39, married with one daughter, and working as a transmission controller at Granada Television, in Manchester. I never found myself wondering what anyone was up to because i didnt care about them.“Must be action, adventure, ingenuity, unbeatable self-defence,” Jim Grant wrote in 1994, on his way to becoming Lee Child. It was a good book but most of the characters felt very plain/not fleshed/ Typical. I am a very technical person the clean violent act mixed perfectly with the information given about the aircraft made a very short sweet read. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? Chong, whom we meet playing piano, was probably the most interesting via Kim's opinions that he expresses about her. Which character – as performed by Michael Kramer – was your favorite? It just isnt as deep and well done as The Illiad If Rainbow Six was The Illiad this was The Cat in the Hat. ![]() It is a different author than Rainbow Six but they come from the same house. ![]() If you’ve listened to books by the authors before, how does this one compare? Where does Tom Clancy's Op-Center rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? ![]()
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