Deserts make good hiding places for bodies, and predators abound. For another, the hero has become a bit chatty, talking more with other characters and telling readers more about his thinking - including how he maps out in advance the hand-to-hand he’ll engage in with thugs who outnumber him. Crime fiction, as a genre, was revolutionised with the arrival of Lee Child and Jack Reacher.
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For one thing, the technologically averse Reacher has now acquired a cell phone. Lee Child is the author of twenty-four New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with fifteen having reached the 1 position, and the 1 bestselling complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name.Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. The change in authors is subtle but detectable. It’s Andrew who wrote most of “The Sentinel.” But, because the names “Child” and Reacher” are forever bound together, he adopted the pen name Andrew Child to carry the series into the future. So Grant (aka Child), has turned the series over to his younger brother Andrew Grant, the author of nine thrillers published under his real name. To date, Child has published over 24 Jack Reacher books in the series. The series was created by Lee Child with his debut novel The Killing Floor. Former elite military police officer Jack Reacher has been hailed by Stephen King as the 'coolest continuing series character' in contemporary fiction.
Lately, he’s been working with Amazon to develop a Jack Reacher TV show starring Alan Ritchson, an actor as enormous and menacing as the character in the books - and a welcome change from the height-challenged Tom Cruise, who played the role in two Hollywood movies.īut Reacher, the mythic avenger who wanders the back roads of America like a modern-day Lone Ranger, is too popular with readers to just fade away. Tripwire (Jack Reacher Series 3) by Lee Child.
Reacher’s creator Lee Child, whose real name is Lee Grant, has said his days as a novelist are over. The cover of “The Sentinel” (Delacorte Press, $28.99), the 25th thriller in the wildly popular Jack Reacher series, says it was written by Lee Child and Andrew Child, though no one by either name actually wrote the book.