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    James Penney's New Identity
    James Penney's New Identity
    James Penney's New Identity
    Ebook28 pages27 minutes

    James Penney's New Identity

    By Lee Child and James Patterson

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    • Character Development

    • Mystery

    • Anthologies

    • Short Stories

    • Identity

    • On the Run

    • Fish Out of Water

    • Redemption

    • Hidden Identity

    • Transformation

    • Survival

    • Underdog

    • Mistaken Identity

    • Fugitive

    • Road Trip

    • New Beginnings

    • Suspense

    About this ebook

    From a New York Times–bestseller, a thriller short story about a Vietnam veteran on the run who receives help from a young military cop named Jack Reacher.
     
    Before Jack Reacher became the seminal, nomadic hero he is today and #1 New York Times–bestselling writer Lee Child reached his current iconic literary stature, there was James Penney, who we meet in this intense thriller short. 
     
    Penney was originally envisioned as a character in Child’s second Jack Reacher tale, Die Trying. Though an interesting character, Penney was ultimately excised during the editing process and readers didn’t have the pleasure of meeting him.
     
    Now he’s been resurrected in a tale that features a brief glimpse of Jack Reacher’s early career. Don’t miss this heart-pumping tale of suspense!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 14, 2019
    ISBN9781488064814
    James Penney's New Identity
    Author

    Lee Child

    Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world, and have sold over one hundred million copies. Two blockbusting Jack Reacher movies have been made so far. www.LeeChild.com  

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    James Penney's New Identity - Lee Child

    LEE CHILD

    Lee Child’s debut novel was Killing Floor, a first-person narrative introducing his series character Jack Reacher, and although clearly a fast-paced thriller it shared characteristics with the classic limited-universe Western. At the time Child was also an experienced media professional, aware that his second book had to be written before significant reaction to his first had even been received. To avoid stereotyping—which can affect a writer as much as any performer—Child determined to make his second book, Die Trying, as different as possible, albeit part of the same series. His plan was to stake out a wide left field, right field territorial span between books one and two, one in which the rest of the series could happily roam. Therefore Die Trying featured third-person narration and a classic high-stakes, multistrand thriller structure. But, in its first draft, that structure went one strand too far. There was a character—James Penney—who had an appealing introduction and backstory, but who clearly didn’t have any valid place to go. So Penney wasn’t featured in the completed novel. Instead, he languished on Child’s hard drive until a request came from an obscure British anthology for a short story. Child repackaged Penney’s narrative and added a prequel-style ending, featuring a brief glimpse of Jack Reacher’s early career. The story was published, but with limited distribution. Now it comes to life again, revised and renewed, in hopes of reaching a wider audience.

    JAMES PENNEY’S NEW IDENTITY

    The process that turned James Penney into a completely different person began thirteen years ago, at one in the afternoon on a Monday in the middle of June, in Laney, California. A hot time of day, at a hot time of year, in a hot part of the country. The town squats on the shoulder of the road from Mojave to L.A. Due west, the southern rump of the Coastal Range Mountains

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