Reacher comes up with his help and promises to protect Jane’s life until the trial process. But when the riot occurs in the prison and all the police forces move to settle it down, an anonymous killer tries to shoot her. The only witness Janet Salter who can testify and put the criminal behind the bars for drug dealing is currently under protection. In the meantime, the biker gang leader awaits trial in the local prison (which is considered one of the biggest penitentiaries in the country). Due to the bad weather conditions, people from the bus have to stay in the nearest town of Bolton, South Dacota, to wait for the storm to calm. Unfortunately, it gets caught in the storm and crashes. The story is engaging from the very first page and will keep you guessing until the very end.Īt the beginning of the novel, Jack Reacher takes a ride on the bus with tourists. It was highly praised by critics and welcomed by the audience, so we couldn’t exclude it from our list of the best Jack Reacher books.
The 14th installment of the series was published in 2010 and became New York Times best-seller. Lee Child’s 61 Hours is one of the most intense stories about Jack Reacher. Whether they manage to do so or not, you can find only at the end of the book. Now, the guys have to come up with the plan and find a way to sabotage the deal between the villains and prevent them from selling ballistic missiles. The story brings the characters to the bright lights of Las Vegas where they face up the threat of international terrorism. What is more, their two other military colleagues are now gone missing. Jack teams up with Frances and a few other men he served with.Īs the new-formed team starts their investigation, they get more questions than answers. She reveals a horrible truth that members of their elite squad are being hunted down. It turned to be Frances Neagley from Chicago (one of the few characters who appear in a number of books in this series), a Reacher’s former colleague from the military service. He tries to stay incognito but when a mysterious stranger sends him a deposit with a hidden code, he realizes someone’s looking for him. Having abandoned his military service around 10 years ago, Reacher now travels with only a few clothing items and an ATM card and doesn’t even have a phone. Later on, we find out that this person was related to Jack Reacher who was in Portland at the beginning of the story. The story starts when a man with two broken legs is thrown down from a helicopter and crashes somewhere in the California desert. The novel is written from the third-person perspective and shows very authentic, sometimes even shocking descriptions of human cruelty. “All you’re doing is sitting at a desk, making up a story.Bad Luck and Trouble is the eleventh book in the series about Jack Reacher written by Lee Child back in 2007. “Martin Amis once said that writing is like pulling your guts out through your nose with a button hook, which is just crap. ‘Martin Amis once said that writing is like pulling your guts out through your nose with a button hook, which is just crap.
“And so now we are looking to take the franchise to a TV streaming service, hopefully casting an unknown actor in the role.” Presumably one with longer legs.Ĭhild mostly contents himself with the books themselves, starting starts to write each new book on 1 September – publishing annually because “that’s what thriller readers expect” – and finishes six months later, approaching the task in the same way he does much else in life: with improbable ease. “I love Tom as a person – wildly misrepresented in the media, of course he is a charming, considerate man – but the readers were desperately unhappy with him,” says Child. In 2005, his hero also reached the big screen with an actor small in stature: 5ft 7in Tom Cruise. His first Reacher, Killing Floor, came out in 1997, and he publishes quite so regularly, he suggests, because that’s what thriller fans expect. “I was no longer able to entertain the public through TV, so writing books that entertained seemed a natural alternative.” It was only when he was made redundant that he cast around for something else to do.
In the 80s and 90s, he was a producer for Granada Television. Read more: James Runcie: ‘I sometimes wish I had written Line of Duty instead of Grantchester’Ĭhild became a writing titan by chance. “I love the work of Jonathan Franzen and Ian McEwan, but they must know that relatively few people are as interested in them as they are in a thriller writer, no?”