Reacher is dead and buried.
One of best characters in the fiction world of the last 25 years, has been Jack Reacher. Unfortunately, the Jack Reacher we've known and loved, is gone.
Once Lee Child's brother (Andrew Grant/aka Andrew Child) took over the franchise with The Sentinel, Jack Reacher seemed to became less and less "Reacher".
I read "No Plan B" yesterday and it was awful. Not only is Andrew a much inferior writer to Lee (Jim Grant), he doesn't seem to have a grasp on the character of Jack Reacher. In No Plan B, Reacher picks up a museum curator, takes her for dinner, then drinks, and then has sex with her and sleeps over! Hardly the Reacher of the last 25 years.
I guess when 5'7" Tom Cruise became the screens embodiment of 6'5" Reacher, I should have seen it coming.
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