Child is a wise man and a gifted storyteller. Clothes? He tosses those after 3 days and gets a new, inexpensive outfit.Ī great deal of truth is written into the Reacher fiction oeuvre. He carries only a folding toothbrush, his passport, and some retirement cash wired to Western Union. As a minimalist, Reacher does not need much, materially or emotionally. After a score of years in the Army, going where ordered, he is now a free man. He is an itinerant-here one day, gone the next. Vigilante justice allows him to break a lot of rules. Turbine 3: The third is Reacher’s character. He also can think like his foes-which helps a lot in finding and outwitting them. With an eidetic memory, the sleuthing powers of Sherlock Holmes, and a singular focus on getting the job done. Turbine 2: The second is Reacher’s brain. As a former major in the Army’s military police (MP), Reacher is used to rounding up criminals-those that are trained to kill. At 6’5,” 250 pounds, Reacher metes out justice no matter what the enemy strength may be. Turbine 1: The first is his size, weight, and strength. The ensemble plays like a finely tuned orchestra, but with guns, not violins. Reacher’s older brother, Joe, and parents appear in carefully staged flashbacks, giving Reacher’s character more depth and texture. With Reacher paired with Detective Finley, a tweedy Harvard obsessional running from his life in Boston, we have a bit of a reprise of the “Odd Couple,” like Felix and Oscar did for a long time on network TV. The town cop, Roscoe, and Reacher’s former military sergeant, Neagley (Maria Sten), who is called in from the “private sector” to add more firepower to the action. Reacher shines as a character when working with smart women, built to repel trouble and usually in uniform. Suspense and danger mount and gallop (like a Reacher novel) to a fiery end. There is no stopping Reacher, Finley, and Roscoe from hunting down-with intent to kill-the individuals responsible for spilling blood and stoking fear. Jail alone has not left Reacher in a very bad mood, because of what happened to his older and taller brother. A killing, exacted in a distinctly “Venezuelan way,” has marred the bucolic town, and there are far more gruesome murders to come. This is not the best way to befriend the town’s chief detective, Oscar Finley (Malcolm Goodwin), or a home-grown, tougher-than-nails female police officer, Roscoe Conklin (Willa Fitzgerald), but it will do. Soon after getting off the bus, trying to have a piece of Georgia’s famed peach pie, Reacher is arrested for murder. His company’s customer is a band of merciless South Americans, and unless Kliner keeps delivering his product, he will be toast-and not the kind served with breakfast. Not so: When the threat of exposure of Kliner Industries is at risk, Kliner and his psychopath son (Chris Webster) get dead serious about keeping the lid on Kliner’s operations. He buys off some cops, and the mayor, so it looks like crime will pay. A businessman, Kliner (Currie Graham), came to town 5 years earlier, built a lucrative company (ostensibly legally), and then rained money to rebuild a broke down town. He wants to learn more about Blind Blake (1895-1934), a blues artist who potentially died there. Reacher gets off a bus in a Southern town. Credit for the series is given to Killing Floor, but the story, events, and characters are drawn from a number of Child’s books. The credible Reacher we have been waiting to see is played by Alan Ritchson, with keen understatement and as much deadliness. Reacher has not disappeared from the screen-only Tom Cruise, who played him in 2 full-length films. The Reacher streaming series, based on Lee Child’s books, with 8 parts at ~50 minutes each, is a treat and a relief. A Reacher book sells every 9 seconds around the globe. His first Reacher book, Killing Floor, made the New York Times bestseller list, as has every one since-quite a few have been #1. He came to the States at 39 and began writing a book a year. There are 25 Reacher books, all with the same protagonist-a run matched only by Nancy Drew-created by Lee Child, a successful, but laid-off British TV director. When it does, mercy on the evildoer behaving badly. Reacher does not seek trouble-trouble finds him. When Reacher (Jack, no middle name) is in peril, which happens frequently in the Reacher books, 2 Tom Cruise films, and throughout this long-awaited series, you can rest assured: “Don’t worry about him.” “Reacher” season 1 is now available to stream on Amazon Prime.
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