Ten of the Most Notorious Kidnappings FRANK SINATRA JR. This sensational kidnapping had all the hallmarks of a classic noir thriller: the only son of a Hollywood star snatched at gunpoint from a nightclub dressing room. To arrange his son’s quarter-million-dollar ransom, the kidnappers forced Sinatra Sr. to race around Los Angeles calling from pay […]
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Lee Child and Jack Reacher: Creating the Perfect Hero
Lee Child and Jack Reacher: Creating the Perfect Hero REACHER SAID NOTHING: Lee Child and the Making of MAKE ME by Andy Martin Bantam, $25 (368 pp.) ISBN 978-1-101-96545-0 Review by Tim Baker How do you sit down and write a best-selling thriller from scratch in only eight months? And how do you do that […]