Mr. Monk In Outer Space by Lee Goldberg

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Mr. Monk In Outer Space by Lee Goldberg

At a convention for the cult science fiction show Beyond Earth, Adrian Monk meets fans as obsessive-compulsive as he is. Though he's not preoccupied with the program, Monk can understand the phenomenon. Who wouldn't want to live in an imaginary world?

But there may be a killer in the Beyond Earth community: Someone in a starship uniform has gunned down the show's legendary creator. Could a fan be that furious at him for selling out to Hollywood? Or is more going on behind the scenes?

Luckily, Monk's agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, is an expert on the TV series, and together they'll search the earth and beyond for the murderer. That is, if Ambrose can bring himself to leave the house. A new story starring Adrian Monk by Edgar(R) Award-nominated screenwriter Lee Goldberg. It's compulsive, page-turning fun.

Even if you aren't familiar with the TV series Monk, this book is too funny to not be read.--The Weekly Journal
Lee Child was born in Coventry, England, in 1954, early enough to remember playing on left-over World War II bomb rubble, late enough to be young and impressionable through the Sixties. He went to law school, but took a job in commercial television.

I always loved entertainment, he says. At elementary school, I was always in the school plays. As a teenager, I worked in shoestring theaters and arts centers. I took vacation jobs anywhere there was a stage and an audience. I never intended to practice law. I did the degree because it was an interesting subject.

He joined Granada Television in Manchester, England, thinking the job would last a few months. He ended up staying nearly twenty years. He was there through the great era of British television drama, working on flagship shows like Brideshead Revisited, Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker.

That was a wonderful, wonderful job, he says. But eventually, twenty years is enough for anybody. And television is teamwork--I felt I wanted to get away from that and get closer to the audience, personally.

So he made the decision to become a novelist. I figured the novel is the purest form of entertainment, and certainly the closest I'd ever get to an audience...after all, a writer is literally one-on-one with the reader for hours and hours at a time.

But why would an Englishman write for America?

Two important reasons, he says. First, I've always been in love with the States. And second, one thing I learned over the years in television is you go where the audience is. And where's the biggest, most literate and most sophisticated audience for modern fiction? In the U.S., without a doubt. It's what I call the basketball theory. If I wanted to be a basketball player, I'd always be second-best if I stayed in Europe. I would need to go to the NBA in America to find out if I were any good. It's the same with fiction. You find the most demanding readers and you write for them.

Married to a New Yorker, Child had a head start. He knows America well, from years of visiting. And so far, he's doing fine. His novels Echo Burning, Running Blind, Killing Floor, Die Trying, Tripwire and Without Fail won awards and rave reviews coast to coast, from The New York Times to People. But best of all, the freedom to work wherever he wants means he's now realized a dream he cherished since childhood.

It's one of my earliest memories, he says. Imagine provincial England at the end of the Fifties. I was about four, and I went to the public library with my mother. There was a series of kids' books called My Home In... and the only one our library had was My Home In America. There were twelve pages, each with a big color illustration of a home ... there was a prairie farmhouse, a Californian bungalow, a New England Colonial ... and my favorite, a Manhattan apartment with a little boy sitting by the window, looking down at the city below. Right away, I knew I wanted to be that boy...

Now he is that boy. After years of dreaming, he moved to the U.S. in the summer of 1998. Writing has brought me a lot of rewards. But this is the best of all of them.

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ISBN 13 9780451224354
ISBN 10 0451224353
Title Mr. Monk In Outer Space
Author Lee Goldberg
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published 2008-06-03
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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