So started at least a decade late with Lee Childs Jack Reacher series.
The actor received mostly positive reviews and the movie made £167million at the box office. Essential Jack Reacher series Read all books of the author and his series as a rule. The books are written under the pen name, Lee.
In 2012, Tom Cruise played Jack Reacher in the first film spin-off. The Jack Reacher franchise has spanned books and movies, with one novel per year being released since 1997. And when a shadowy crew raises the stakes, he wont hesitate to teach them a lesson: When you pick a fight with Reacher, youre better off dead. The couple have one daughter, 39-year-old Ruth, who works as a dog trainer for New York celebrities. (Jack Reacher 26) Jack Reacher isnt one to back down from a fight. Andrew Child, who also writes as Andrew Grant, is the author of RUN. He chose Colorado because marijuana is legal there and Lee openly admits he likes to smoke the drug. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City. He also has homes in France and Sussex as well as in Wyoming and Colorado. Child began writing after he lost his job as a presentation director for Granada Television, releasing Killing Floor, the first novel in the series, in 1997. He lives mostly in New York with his American wife, Jane, because he fell for the city after seeing a picture of it when he was a child. Jack Reacher is the protagonist in the Jack Reacher book series by renowned British author James Dover Grant, writing under the pen name Lee Child. And is thrown into the county jail, for a murder he didn’t commit. Killing Floor (Jack Reacher 1) Jack Reacher gets off a bus in a small town in Georgia. Im a big fan of thrillers, and in my estimation.
The Jack Reacher books can be read in any order, but here they are in the order in which they were written. Id like to share with you my vote for best thriller series: the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child.
In his 20s and 30s he worked in TV in Manchester. Reacher is never looking for trouble, but trouble always finds him. He grew up in Coventry and then Birmingham. He smokes a packet of cigarettes a day and says his habit does the same. He hardly eats and believes staying hungry keeps him creative. Since 2006, Lee has spent at least 240 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller list.ĭespite being 6ft 4in, the writer weighs just over 9st. His all-time sales top 100million and he sells between 12million and 15million books a year.įour of his titles have topped the bestseller lists in both the US and the UK, with the latest Reacher book, Blue Moon, outselling the rest of the top ten combined. A JACK Reacher books sells every 13 seconds, making Lee one of the world’s biggest-selling authors, if not the biggest.