![]() ![]() He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. But they hadn’t counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch. In a nameless city, two ruthless rival criminal gangs, one Albanian, the other Ukrainian, are competing for control. He thinks, what’s one extra day? He takes the detour. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. It's a woman cadet’s graduation present to herself. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley at his side, Reacher must carry the fate of the world on his shoulders, in a wired, fiendishly clever new adventure that will make the cold sweat trickle down your spine. Reacher’s one-day stopover becomes an open-ended quest… into the heart of darkness. Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother’s Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. Will he be sorry he went back? Or will someone else be? But the woman he’s meeting isn’t where she’s supposed to be and before Reacher knows it, there’s a lot that’s not quite the way it’s supposed to be. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child that he can’t let go. Reacher runs into a clan that’s terrifying the Nebraska locals. In freezing South Dakota, Reacher hitches a lift on a bus heading for trouble. ![]() Reacher crosses the line between a town called Hope and one named Despair. A lone sniper shoots five people dead in a heartland city. ![]() This is the novel the Jack Reacher movie was based on, so from a film perspective is a valid place to start. Has Reacher lost his sense of right and wrong? Both are victims of a man just like Reacher.Ī kidnapping in Boston. Two naked women are found dead in a bath filled with paint. Reacher is locked in a van with a woman claiming to be FBI, and ferried right across America into a brand new country. Jack Reacher gets off a bus in a small town in Georgia, and is thrown into the county jail for a murder he didn’t commit. Heroic nomad Jack Reacher will soon return to screens in Amazon's upcoming series, and this time the character will look a lot more like fans of Lee Child's books expect. Here’s a rundown of some of the killer titles in the Jack Reacher series: The first book in Lee Child‘s series is so good it seems a shame not to start there, but this is a series you can dip into at different stages because there’s always one constant – Jack Reacher. They follow Reacher as he’s trying to get to Virginia to return to his old base and a woman’s voice. There are four books that form a sub-series starting off with 61 Hours then continuing in Worth Dying For, A Wanted Man and finally Never Go Back. He’s a loner who used to be in the military, dangerous and unattainable, and the series follows his exploits all across America and occasionally into other countries. We are first introduced to Jack Reacher in Killing Floor. But do you necessarily have to start at the beginning? Which book is the first one? And which books fit together? We’re here to help bring some clarity… So the readers were cross from the beginning.”ĭwayne Johnson revealed in 2017 that he had gone for the role, but had lost it to Cruise.Now that Lee Child has written more than 20 books in his highly successful Jack Reacher series, it might seem daunting prospect to come in late. It was felt that, for all his virtues, Cruise didn't represent that. “Even without doing anything, if he walks into a room, people are a little bit uneasy. Part of Reacher's appeal is that he's very intimidating. Ritchson, meanwhile, is a more sturdy six-foot two.Ĭhild told The Guardian: “I've got tens of thousands of letters saying they didn't like Cruise because he's too small, basically. Read more: Tom Cruise could earn £50m from space movie In the books, Reacher is a six-foot five giant, weighing 250 lbs, nearly a foot taller than Cruise, while Child describes his hands as being 'like Thanksgiving turkeys'. The pair of movies did only moderate business for a Cruise-helmed project, making just $400 million combined.Īnd Child has since been vocal with his views on Cruise playing the role, due to his less than hulking stature. Cruise as Jack Reacher (Credit: Paramount) ![]()
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