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Killing Floor is the debut novel by Lee Child, first published in 1997 by Putnam. The book won the Anthony Award and Barry Award for best first novel. Set in 1997 in the fictional town of Margrave, Georgia it follows Jack Reacher in his first thriller book.
Jack Reacher is a 2012 American action thriller film [3] [4] written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom Cruise and based on Lee Child's 2005 novel One Shot. Cruise portrays the title character and the supporting cast features Rosamund Pike , Werner Herzog , Robert Duvall , David Oyelowo , Richard Jenkins and Jai Courtney .
Killing Floor, a novel by Lee Child; Killing Floor, a poetry collection by Ai; Films. The Killing Floor, a 1984 film by director Bill Duke; The ...
James Dover Grant [1] CBE (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series. [2] The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman , Jack Reacher , who wanders the United States.
Lee Child was unemployed when he wrote Killing Floor after being fired as a presentation director for Granada Television. [1] [2] [3]Some [who?] have said that the character is an antidote to stereotypical male antiheroes.
March 1997. Six months before the events of Killing Floor. Jack Reacher is still in the army, and there is big trouble in a small town in Mississippi, where a soldier's girlfriend is found with her throat cut from ear to ear. Reacher must determine whether the killer is local, or from nearby Fort Kelham, a large base used by elite Army Rangers ...
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The Killing Floor is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Bill Duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919. [1]