Analysis Lee Child
A WANTED MAN S
ince accurate records began, no British-born crime writer has sold more books than Lee Child. And
23 books in, his sales are getting stronger. He did not claim the overall UK number one until his 13th book, Gone Tomorrow, but each subsequent title has hit the top spot.
THE BOOKS 1 Killing Floor
2 Die Trying 3 Tripwire 4 The Visitor 5 Echo Burning 6 Without Fail 7 Persuader 8 The Enemy 9 One Shot 10 The Hard Way
11 Bad Luck and Trouble
12 Nothing To Lose 13 Gone Tomorrow 14 61 Hours 15 Worth Dying For 16 The Affair 17 A Wanted Man 18 Never Go Back 19 Personal 20 Make Me 21 Night School 22 The Midnight Line 23 Past Tense
B O O K
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10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
0 UNITS 28 200k 400k 600k 800k
Across all editions, the bestselling title in the series is the first, Killing Floor (732,619 copies sold); next is the 14th Reacher, Never Go Back, which served as the basis for the second Tom Cruise adaptation of a Child title, 2016’s “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back”. While the first Cruise film (2012’s imaginatively titled
REACHER’S HEIGHTS
“Jack Reacher”, based on 2005’s One Shot) was a hit, the second was a box office disap- pointment—perhaps weighed down by some complaints about the casting of 5'7" Cruise as the 6'5" Reacher. Child is currently in talks with several companies, including Netflix, for a TV series. He has pledged to cast an unknown as Reacher and jokes that “given the flak we had with [Cruise], we might just go for the biggest motherfucker available.”
20 32 #14
UK OVERALL NUMBER ONES
61 HOURS TOP-SELLING REACHER HARDBACK
12.9 MILLION 78.1 MILLION
39 45 #23
REACHER EDITIONS TO TOP £1M IN VALUE SALES
PAST TENSE TOP-EARNING REACHER HARDBACK
PAPERBACK FICTION POLES
NUMBER OF BOOKS SOLD IN THE UK THROUGH NIELSEN BOOKSCAN
VALUE OF BOOKS SOLD IN THE UK THROUGH NIELSEN BOOKSCAN
REACHER EDITIONS TO TOP 100,000 UNIT SALES
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