ibWith a foreword by bbLeebb Child.bibr br Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. iWith Childi is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of iMake Mei, the writing of iNight Schooli at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of iNever Go Backi 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 writers like Stephen King and David Lagercrantz and Karin Slaughter, and dissect the latest novel from Jonathan Franzen.br br But Martin also reaches out to Child's legion of readers in America and around the world. He tracks down a woman in Texas whose name appears in the home invasion scene in iMake Mei he goes up a mountain in Montana in search of t