According to that article, the Reacher series was ordered by Amazon in Jan. 2020. The last Reacher book written by Lee Child alone was released in Oct. 2019. The first joint book was released in Oct. 2020. Based on the time it takes a book to go from the author's laptop to Amazon's warehouse, his brother was likely working on that first book before the series got the green light. Lee Child also gave interviews saying he had decided to retire from writing the books, that he and the brother would write a book or two together and then the brother would take over.
Based on the reviews of "Better Off Dead", Lee Child might want to rethink things. The book is rated 4 out of 5 stars but Amazon must use some hinky math since most of the reviews give it 1 or 2 stars. (I gave it two stars myself.) Some readers are begging Lee Child to kick his brother to the curb and take over.
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