6 April 2020
About five years before he wrote his first novel, Killing Floor, Lee Child, whose real name is Jim Grant, began to think seriously about writing. At the time he worked as a presentation director for Granada Television in Manchester, England-an "air traffic controller for the broadcast airways" is how he describes it. He did a little bit of everything, from writing and directing to, of course, traffic management-anything, he says, to avoid the dreaded black screen.
