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He may have stepped back from his iconic series, but that doesn\u2019t mean Lee Child has put his pen down.\xa0

Since his announcement last year that he was passing the character of Jack Reacher over into his brother\u2019s hands, he\u2019s been credited in the latest novel \u2018In Too Deep\u2019, which is being released in October. \xa0

But before that Child has released another project of his own, an action-packed short story collection called \u2018Safe Enough: And Other Stories\u2019. \xa0

He told Mike Hosking that they\u2019re stories he\u2019s written over the course of his career, and since stepping back from Reacher, someone suggested he make a collection.\xa0

\u201cThey were kind of secret projects of mine that I would do anything I wanted,\u201d Child said.\xa0

\u201cAnd I'm very interested to see what other people think of them.\u201d\xa0

The oldest story was written twenty years ago, back in 2004, with the others all falling somewhere in between then and the present.\xa0

\u201cI have no idea what people will think. I hope they like them, but we shall find out.\u201d\xa0

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