The 38-year-old penned the book at night as his daughter drifted off to sleep
A writer from Ravenscraig was inspired to pen his own crime thriller novel after watching Jack Reacher.The Lanarkshire man – who is dad to Paige, 20 and seven-year-old Presley – works as a Hire Controller at Speedy Hire in Cambuslang , watched the television series and then mentioned to his wife that he might even read one of the books written by author Lee Child from where the screen version originated.
"Then I was watching a documentary and an interview with the author Lee Child and he mentioned that he didn’t publish his first book until he was nearly 40. I was only 36, so I thought I’d give it a bash and write a book. “I tried to put the two characters together in a situation where they had to come together and get to know each other a bit better.
"Sometimes I would still be sitting there into the early hours in the morning, long after she was sleeping.
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