Several other of the Jack Reacher series of novels have picked up literary awards. Killing Floor was also nominated for a Dilys Award in 1998 and a Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, but lost out to Dead Body Language by Penny Warner. The same year, he won the Barry Award for Best First Novel for Killing Floor, and in 2000 he won the Best Translated Novel at the Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prizes. He beat Grace Edward, Maureen Jennings, Philip Reed and Robert Skinner to claim the award. Killing Floor won Child the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 1998. Killing Floor the first book to feature Lee Child’s most famous character, Jack Reacher. Grant Claims that the animosity he felt toward his former employers was the basis for the content of the Jack Reacher series, as it focuses on revenge for the main character. It was after the release of Killing Floor that he moved from the United Kingdom to the United States. It was then that he made the move into fiction, with his first novel, and also the first to feature Jack Reacher, Killing Floor, released in 1997. Grant remained with ITV Granada until 1995, when he was made redundant due to corporate restructuring within the company. Jim Grant did not start out as a novelist, as he went to study law at the University of Sheffield, before moving into television as a producer for ITV’s north-west subsidiary, Granada Television.

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