I was arrested in Enos diner.
I was eating eggs and drinking coffee.
A late breakfast, not lunch.
I was wet and tired after a long walk in heavy rain.
All the way from the highway to the edge of town.
Hes a sort of cross between the Lone Ranger and a one man A-Team.
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But Reacher must come from somewhere though.
Something must have inspired this never-ending walkabout.
Reacher left the US army in 1997 having become disenchanted with being a soldier.
His time there has so far been covered in two of Childs novels.
InThe Enemy,Reacher found himself knee deep in military corruption when dealing with the death of a general.
Then the machine coughed and spat me out.
So I thought, OK, if Im out.
All the way out.
I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction.
But I got used to it.
Not that he owns an iron, or anything else.
This may seem like a polite, towing-the-studio-line response, but Child may have a point.
Conversely, my brother imagines him to be more like Den Of Geek favourite, Jason Statham.
So maybe, Reacher wasnt influenced solely by his father.
Finally, there was Reachers older brother, Joe.
It seems that a sense of tough, do-gooding loyalty was a Reacher family trait.
Hes not exactly James Bond.
The closest Jack Reacher has come to someone you would term a girlfriend is Jodie Garber.
Reacher even settled down for a time, living in New York with Jodie.
No matter how big or small though, Reacher always applies his stoic demeanour to proceedings.
Sometimes Reacher is just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
People leave me alone, I leave them alone.
If they dont, I dont.
The guy is like a dog with a bone then.
A pretty big and angry dog.
No one who hasnt left Reacher alone has come out of it very well thus far.
Rumour has it that Lee Child will write a total of 21 Jack Reacher novels.
And if you are the problem: hide…
Jack Reacheropens on the 26th December in the UK.
