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I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
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Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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