Match Up - Softcover

Child, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751569038 ISBN 13: 9780751569032

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2017

Synopsis

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ... Lee Child's Jack Reacher will team up with Kathy Reichs' Temperance Brennan to unmask a cunning killer. Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan work with Peter James's Roy Grace on a very unusual murder case. These are just some of the never-before-seen pairings in Match Up - a brand new collaboration between the world's famous crime writers. Edited be international bestseller Lee Child, this exclusive page-turning anthology promises the same thrills and chills brought to you by the previous collection, Face Off . Read on for the full list of author and character pairings: Diana Gabaldon's Claire Randall Fraser + Steve Berry's Cotton Malone Lisa Scottoline's Bennie Rosato + Nelson DeMille's John Corey Sandra Brown's Lee Coburn + C.J. Box's Joe Pickett Kathy Reichs's Temperance Brennan + Lee Child's Jack Reacher Val McDermid's Tony Hill + Peter James's Roy Grace Charlaine Harris's Harper Connelly + Andrew Gross's Ty Hauck Gayle Lynds's Liz Sansborough + David Morrell's Rambo Karin Slaughter's Jeffrey Tolliver + Michael Koryta's Lincoln Perry Lara Adrian's Lucan Thorne + Christopher Rice J.A. Jance's Ali Reynolds + Eric Van Lustbader's Bravo Shaw Lisa Jackson's Regan Pescoli + John Sandford's Lucas Davenport

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This collaboration between twenty-two of the world's bestselling crime writers is edited by Lee Child.

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MatchUp SANDRA BROWN AND C. J. BOX

SANDRA BROWN BEGAN WRITING IN 1981. Before that she worked as a model and in television, including weathercasting and feature reporting on the nationally syndicated program PM Magazine. And though she’s published over seventy novels, with over eighty million copies in print worldwide, she admits to one handicap.

She’s short story challenged.

“It’s just not something I’ve written a whole lot of,” she says.

Luckily, C. J. Box does not suffer from that affliction, which made him the perfect partner for Sandra. Chuck is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, and small-town newspaper reporter, and he’s even owned an international tourism marketing firm. He has over twenty novels to his credit, and short stories are not unfamiliar. He also has a character, Joe Pickett, so the idea was to connect Sandra’s Lee Coburn with Pickett. By a stroke of great luck, at the end of Sandra’s 2011 novel Lethal, Coburn ended up in, of all places, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Which is Joe Pickett country.

Talk about fate.

Everything just got easier after that.

Together, Sandra and Chuck plotted the story. Then Chuck wrote the first draft and sent it to Sandra for an edit and rewrite. They went back and forth, until both were pleased with the outcome. Chuck’s comment summed it all up.

“Sandra was a dream to work with it.”

You’re going to like this unexpected encounter between two of the most rugged protagonists out there today. Both harken back to another time, and the story’s title poses an interesting question.

Honor & . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0751569038
• ISBN 13: 9780751569032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464