Sunday, September 29, 2024

LEE CHILD & MICHAEL CONNELLY: Book Passage Online Event - October 1


Mark your calendar. Book Passage presents Lee Child with Michael Connelly - Safe Enough (Online Event): October 1, 11 a.m. PDT. 

Lee Child joined in-conversation with Michael Connelly for live virtual event celebrating Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher. 

Presentation followed by live Q&A session. Get your questions answered! 
Watch the archived recording again after the event at your convenience here

And... on Saturday, October 26th at 4PM PT either in-person at Book Passage, Corte Madera location or online in celebration of NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly for his latest work The Waiting : A Ballard and Bosch Novel. 

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You know Jack Reacher. Now meet twenty more heroes and heavies from the brilliant mind of legendary crime author Lee Child.

A drug-dealing hit man feels that he must unburden his fears and guilt to a stranger in “Ten Keys.” A rookie cop in “Normal in Every Way” is assigned to the department’s file room, where he makes connections to historic dates that could lead to solving crimes. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he’s outsmarted. A military mission is planned to perfection. A potential worker for the Manhattan Project is carefully surveilled by an FBI agent. A killer preys on other killers. Taken together, these stories are a riotous calamity of criminals and crime fighters; individually, they are expertly crafted, piercing tales that hit hard enough to leave a mark.

These twenty intriguing, thrilling, and rapid-fire fictions are intimate portraits of humanity at its best and worst, sure to please new and longtime fans of Child and to illuminate a side of the author’s work unknown to Reacher devotees. Featuring a colorful new introduction from the author, the collection stands as the first book written entirely by Child in four years.
 

Lee Child was born on October 29, 1954, in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV’s “golden age.” During his tenure his company made Brideshead RevisitedThe Jewel in the CrownPrime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of forty as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars’ worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.
 
Michael Connelly is the author of thirty-eight previous novels, including New York Times bestsellers Resurrection Walk, Desert Star, and The Law of Innocence. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty-five million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of three television series: Bosch,Bosch: Legacy, and The Lincoln Lawyer. He spends his time in California and Florida.

Michael Connelly will be presenting his latest work The Waiting: A Ballard and Bosch Novel on Saturday, October 26th at 4PM PT both in-person at our Corte Madera location and online. LEARN MORE>>>
 

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