Personal: (Jack Reacher 19)

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At the time of the short story Second Son, when Jack was 13, he was stationed in Okinawa and involved in preparing contingency plans for an invasion of Mainland China.

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But Reacher confronts and kills Joey, enters the house and kills Kott, too; then he comes back to the States to meet O'Day, the general who proposed the mission to him; but not to thank him, but to frame him. Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. He also reveals that his size is purely genetic; he states in Persuader [51] and Never Go Back that he is not much of an exercise enthusiast. In Bad Luck and Trouble, Reacher deduces that the amount of money deposited without his knowledge into his bank account was a message from Neagley, his colleague from the Military Police Corps.On 14 November 2018, Child announced that he made a deal with Skydance Television and Paramount Television to produce a Jack Reacher series based on Child's novels.

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Grant is a fan of Aston Villa Football Club [33] and has been known to include the names of Aston Villa players in his books. I thought, 'Well, he won't be working, and he won't live anywhere, and let's just take it from there. In 2020 Child joined the Booker Prize judging panel, alongside Margaret Busby (chair), Sameer Rahim, Lemn Sissay and Emily Wilson. While Reacher knows how to drive, in A Wanted Man he professes to be a bad driver, and in Bad Luck and Trouble he says he cannot rent a car because he does not have a driver's license.Curtis, as well as Harding and Iggulden, have also considered the role Child's dismissal from Granada had on Reacher's development.

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Stan also is unclear exactly how closely related he and Reacher are to Mark but believes Mark is one of the many grandchildren of a relative Stan never met in person, who made a fortune in real estate. The book series chronicles the adventures of Jack Reacher, former Major in the United States Army Military Police Corps, now drifter, roaming the United States taking odd jobs and investigating suspicious and frequently dangerous situations, some of which are of a personal nature. It won the 2014 RBA Prize for Crime Writing, [5] a Spanish literary award said to be the world's most lucrative crime fiction prize at €125,000. Culminating the story arc extending from 61 Hours, Reacher makes it to his destination in northeastern Virginia: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP.Like the author, Reacher was workplace surplus: He was a military policeman in an era of Army downsizing. On New Year's Day, 1990, in a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead, suspected to have suffered a heart attack while engaging in coitus with a prostitute. Reacher, enlisting the help of an ex-FBI private investigator, uncovers clues that might lead to a rescue, learning about the director's mysterious past in the process. The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012. This work is a crossover between the Jack Reacher and Nick Heller series, the latter with Joseph Finder.