A Favorite Series – Jack Reacher by Lee Child (& Andrew Child)

Jack Reacher is an iconic character. Even if you’ve never read a book in the series (28 books and counting) you may have heard of the two Tom Cruise movies where he played the antihero and divided a rabid fanbase. For me, Tom Cruise is no Reacher. Jason and I just finished season 2 of the Amazon series, Reacher, where Alan Richson deftly plays the larger than life killing machine with his own moral code. The series is good. 

Jack Reacher is an ex-military cop who is roaming the United States, seeing the country he barely knows after a lifetime (36 years) spent on military bases around the world. From one of my reviews, “Jack Reacher is a man’s man, but one that women are drawn to because of his sheer masculinity and unavailability.  He is who he is, take him or leave him and that confidence and physical presence makes him a force to be reckoned with.”

Why should you be reading the Jack Reacher series?  Because he’s alpha male dreamy.  He isn’t held back by rules but is ruled by what is good and just and he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty in the pursuit of justice.  He’s a tall, commanding man who, if you count the number of women he’s charmed out of their clothes, knows his way around a woman’s body. 

Read if you like – Drifters with a hero complex, larger than life characters who say as little as possible, justice being served no matter how many get hurt, and don’t mind lots of violence.

#1 The Killing Floor

#2 Die Trying

#3 Tripwire

#4 Running Bling

#5 Echo Burning

#6 Without Fail

#7 Persuader

#8 The Enemy

#9 One Shot

#10 The Hard Way

#11 Bad Luck and Trouble

#12 Nothing To Lose

#13 Gone Tomorrow

#14 61 Hours

#15 Worth Dying For

#16 The Affair

#17 A Wanted Man

#18 Never Go Back

#19 Personal

#20 Make Me

#21 Night School

#22 The Midnight Line

#23 Past Tense

#24 Blue Moon

#25 The Sentinel

#26 Better Off Dead

#27 No Plan B

#28 The Secret

#29 In Too Deep

Any other Reacher fans out there?