Lee Child is the author of the Jack Reacher thrillers.
For readers of The Week magazine, he recommended six debut novels that led to greater things, including:
The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald
MacDonald, also restless after the war, broke away from his prosperous background to become a prodigious pulp wordsmith — Westerns, sci-fi, anything to pay the rent. Until, in the early '60s, he





