Jack Reacher is a series of novels, novellas and short stories by British author Jim Grant under the pen name Lee Child.
[2] The book series chronicles the adventures of Jack Reacher, a former major in the United States Army Military Police Corps now a drifter, roaming the United States taking odd jobs and investigating suspicious and frequently dangerous situations, some of which are of a personal nature.
The character was portrayed by Tom Cruise in a 2012 film and 2016 sequel as well as Alan Ritchson in a streaming television series which premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2022.
[3] This novel was adapted for the screen in 2016 as Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, with Tom Cruise reprising the title role.
The assignment that awaits him: the army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for US forces.
But vital details about the weapon are leaking from someone at the top of the federal government and probably into the hands of unidentified foreign arms dealers.
Reacher, while at a blues music club, observes what he believes to be the beginning of a kidnapping as part of a Russian mafia dispute.
The story features Reacher, still in the Army as a captain, helping James Penney, a Vietnam War veteran who has recently been made redundant at work and had his car stolen.
[citation needed] This novella, published in 2013,[8] opens on 13 July 1977[9] with an almost seventeen year old Reacher stopping by in New York in the middle of a heat wave to visit his brother at West Point when he encounters a woman (Jill Hemingway) being assaulted by a man.
Hemingway also makes a call to the New York Police Department about the Son of Sam based on the description given to her by Reacher.
At the end of the road trip, Reacher parts ways with his companions and finds himself near a hiking trail sealed off by the US Army under mysterious circumstances.
This short story, co written by Lee Child and Joseph Finder, opens with Jack Reacher encountering two men, Nick Heller, a private spy and Jerry DeLong, a forensic accountant.
Outside the bar, Reacher and Heller beat Dushku unconscious and steal his bribe money, which they then split between themselves before parting ways.
A young lieutenant colonel in a stylish handmade uniform roars through the damp woods of Georgia in her new silver Porsche, until she meets a very tall soldier with a broken-down car.
This anthology includes a novella, "Too Much Time", and the short stories "Deep Down", "Everyone Talks", "Guy Walks into a Bar", "High Heat", "James Penney's New Identity" (the original version which is longer), "Maybe They Have a Tradition", "No Room at the Motel", "Not a Drill", "Second Son", "Small Wars", and "The Picture of the Lonely Diner".
Included in MatchUp, a collection of co-authored short stories by male and female thriller authors (Lee Child and Kathy Reichs).
Reacher visits a hollowed-out town in Maine, where he witnesses a random bag-snatching but sees much more than a simple crime.
[21][22][23] The 25th novel in the series, The Sentinel, was published on 27 October 2020,[24] and was the first Jack Reacher book to be co-authored by and credited to both Child brothers.
[24][22] All of the Jack Reacher novels have been released in audio form narrated by a number of different voice actors, notably Jeff Harding and Dick Hill.
[25][26] Paramount Pictures hired Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Josh Olson to adapt One Shot, under the title Jack Reacher.
Lee Child said, "Reacher's size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way.
McQuarrie did not direct, due to a commitment with another Cruise film, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,[29][30] and was replaced with Edward Zwick.
The size of Reacher is really, really important and it's a big component of who he is...So what I've decided to do is – there won't be any more movies with Tom Cruise.