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No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

Lee Child

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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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Leave
Alone
Men
People

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So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
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My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
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