Jack may have been at the wrong place at the wrong time, but they kidnapped the wrong guy. However, the bad luck turns out to belong to the kidnappers. The woman is worth a lot of money to someone and they just might get it. The men who kidnapped them are looking for an impossible ransom. The two are chained together and locked in the back of the van as it heads to an unknown destination. He’s in the wrong place at the wrong time which leads to him being kidnapped with her. Jack will work together with them on the case to bring the right killerĭie Trying: This book sees Jack Reacher heading to Chicago where he is witness to a woman being kidnapped off of the street. Reacher meets the detective, Finlay, and a female officer named Roscoe who believes that Reacher is innocent. What they don’t know is what Reacher is capable of. The sheriff claims that he saw Reacher leave the scene of a murder and arrests him for that crime. However, to his surprise he is arrested shortly after on the orders of the local sheriff. The book starts with Jack Reacher getting off of a Greyhound bus in the town of Margrave, Georgia for the simple reason that he heard that a blues musician that he liked had died in that town. Child was awarded with both the Anthony Award and Barry Award for Best First Novel. Killing Floor: This is the first book in the Jack Reacher series.
#CAST OF JACK REACHER SERIES#
While Lee Child himself has been called a master of his craft by publications such as Entertainment Weekly and the series has drawn quite a following. Reacher has been called one of “this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes” by the Washington Post. The books in the series follow Reacher as he goes through a number of exploits in his world. Jack Reacher is the lead character and the protagonist in the series of books by British author Jim Grant who writes under the pseudonym of Lee Child. The short story Second Son features Jack Reacher at 13 years old and High Heat has Reacher as 16. Unfortunately, they seem to be sticking with Cruise and changing director, but hopefully they'll do OK with Never Go Back.Chronologically, The Enemy should be read first followed by Night School and then The Affair.You can then read the rest of the novels in publication order. What I'd like to see is the opposite - keep Chris McQuarrie, he's perfect for modern noir, but have a different actor play Reacher in every film. In M:I, the cast persists but they have a new director for every film. What I was hoping was that they'd do something like the Mission: Impossible films, but with a twist. I can't think of anyone working in movies like that. Huge, blond, menacing, powerful, but under it a lot happening mentally too. When I read the novels, I think of a youngish Nick Nolte (around 48 hours), but with Clint Eastwood's eyes.
#CAST OF JACK REACHER MOVIE#
Personally, I have no idea who I'd cast if I were making the movie myself. Normally that would sound like a bullshit answer but in this specific case I think it's actually true, Cruise did give that sort of performance, largely because that specifically is what he does best as an actor. I recall seeing Lee Child in an interview fielding questions along the lines of "they cast Tom Cruise in a role described as a huge, muscular blond guy, WTF?" and he was responding by saying that Reacher's size is all essentially a metaphor for his unstoppable nature, and Cruise was capable of portraying this facet of him in his own way. The movie is different from the book it's adapted from, so I don't feel there's any real problem with Cruise, because it's an adaptation. Like /u/dragonsky I came to the books after seeing the movie, and for me Cruise worked really well as the protagonist of that story. I haven't seen him in much, and I have no real complaints about him, but equally, at no point did I ever feel he was really special. Personally I have no real feeling for Hardy as an actor.