61 Facts About Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher is the protagonist of a series of crime thriller novels by British author Lee Child.

Similarly, editor Otto Penzler published an essay by Child explaining that Jack Reacher was created deliberately in contrast to the prevailing trends in crime fiction.

Jack Reacher's name is short and commonplace, as opposed to quirky or unusual; Reacher's personal ethics and wandering lifestyle are reminiscent of the chivalrous knight errant of medieval lore as opposed to an anti-hero tormented by addiction and haunted by past misbehavior.

Jack Reacher's ex-military background was a specific and tactical choice on his behalf.

Jack Reacher has quirks and problems, but the thing is, he doesn't know he's got them.

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Jack Reacher was born on a military base in Berlin, on 29 October 1960.

Jack Reacher's commanding officer, Leon Garber, promoted Reacher twice in 18 months, making him the youngest peacetime major anyone could remember.

Jack Reacher served in the Army's Military Police Corps, resigning his commission and mustering out at the rank of major.

Jack Reacher left the armed forces in 1997, partly due to a reduction in the forces and partly because he verbally offended a lieutenant colonel during an investigation in Mississippi, who then singled him out for discharge.

Jack Reacher is completely competent, but he's just habituated to this fragmented life in the military, so he can't settle into civilian society.

Jack Reacher himself expounds on a hypothesis about this vagrant lifestyle in Never Go Back.

Jack Reacher asserts that some peoples had a natural wanderlust, such as the British Empire, the Vikings, and the Polynesians.

Jack Reacher recognizes the economic reasons for their voyages but argues that "some of them could not stop".

Jack Reacher believes that, when prehistoric humans lived in small bands, a gene evolved to prevent inbreeding.

In Make Me Jack Reacher gets off a train in a remote town called Mother's Rest, simply because he likes the name of the town.

In Echo Burning, Jack Reacher narrates how he first turned "his fear into aggression".

Jack Reacher was about four when he watched a television show on space adventures.

Jack Reacher was unable to sleep for days, thinking the monster was under his bed and would get him if he tried to sleep.

Furthermore, she notes that Jack Reacher had until then attempted to solve only her problems, neglecting the problems of his own:.

Jack Reacher is shown to be sympathetic to those in need, as seen in The Hard Way where he bequeaths Edward Lane's fees paid to him for the medical treatment and living expenses of a man whom Lane had betrayed many years back.

Jack Reacher had said, 'You've got the strength of two normal boys.

Jack Reacher is quite fast for his height, and often fights opponents his size or larger.

Jack Reacher's skill is attributed to the fact that he grew up all over the world, due to being in a Marine Corps family.

In Bad Luck and Trouble, Jack Reacher uses this to deduce that the amount of money deposited without his knowledge into his bank account was an attempt by Neagley, his colleague from the Military Police Corps, to contact him.

Jack Reacher is known as one of the best investigators the Army's Military Police Corps had to offer, and he led a special unit tasked with difficult cases.

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Jack Reacher is described as a skilled marksman, principally in One Shot, being the only non-Marine to win the US Marine Corps 1000 Yard Invitational rifle competition.

Jack Reacher explains this to detectives investigating an early morning suicide on a near-deserted New York subway near a visit to a blues club on Bleecker Street.

Jack Reacher's face looked like it had been chipped out of rock by a sculptor who had ability but not much time.

Jack Reacher was extremely tall, and extremely broad, and long-armed, and long-legged.

Jack Reacher's neck was thick and his hands were the size of dinner plates.

Jack Reacher's gaze was both wise and appealing, both friendly and bleak, both frank and utterly cynical.

Jack Reacher reveals that his size is purely genetic; he states in Persuader and Never Go Back that he is not much of an exercise enthusiast.

Jack Reacher has various scars, most notably a collection of roughly stitched scars on his abdomen caused by a bombing in Lebanon, with ugly raised welts that are later instrumental in saving his life, a 3-to-4-inch-wide white scar that intersects his shrapnel scar that he received during a knife fight in Gone Tomorrow.

Jack Reacher suffers his first ever broken nose in Worth Dying For, at over 50 years of age.

Jack Reacher's maternal grandfather, Laurent Moutier, was a furniture restorer in Paris, who, at age 30, volunteered for the French Army in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, fighting at Verdun and The Somme.

In Second Son Jack Reacher is impressed with his grandfather's stoic acceptance of approaching death and says that "A man who survived Verdun and The Somme as well as the WWII anti-Nazi Resistance has already beaten the odds".

Jack Reacher met Reacher's father in Korea and married him in the Netherlands.

Jack Reacher was widowed in 1988, and died in 1990 at the age of 60 of lung cancer.

Jack Reacher had lived through desperate times and she had stepped up and done what was necessary.

In Die Trying, when the FBI mistakenly assumes Jack Reacher to be in league with the book's villains, the Bureau experts observing Jack Reacher's demeanor on footage from a security camera consider him to be "a foreigner, probably a European mercenary".

Additionally, in the same book, Jack Reacher tricks the antagonists into believing he is a French mercenary, speaking French seemingly fluently.

Jack Reacher's father, Stan Jack Reacher, was a United States Marine Corps captain, who served in Korea and Vietnam.

At the time of the short story Second Son, when Jack Reacher was 13, he was stationed in Okinawa and involved in preparing contingency plans for an invasion of Mainland China.

Joe was born on a military base in the Philippines, and Jack Reacher is described as helping Joe beat up the kids who gave him trouble in school, and vice versa.

However, Past Tense, establishes that Jack Reacher hasn't met anyone in his father's family when he visits the town his father came from.

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One of the others is named Stan Jack Reacher, and reveals that Jack Reacher's father used his name to enlist in the Marines while underage after killing a local criminal.

Stan is unclear exactly how closely related he and Jack Reacher are to Mark but believes Mark is one of the many grandchildren of a relative Stan never met in person, who made a fortune in real estate.

Jack Reacher reminds a bit of a character from the Old West: the strong, mysterious loner who never stays in town for long.

Sargent notes the dichotomy in Jack Reacher's character, stating that he is intellectual and generous despite his exterior appearance of being "unkempt, unshaven and out of uniform, a loner, avenger, perpetual outsider at odds with the army".

Thing about Jack Reacher is that he is not just a thug, even if a well-meaning thug in the manner of, say, Rambo or Bruce Willis.

Jack Reacher is a thinker, an intellectual, capable of quoting Nietzsche or coming up with the etymology of "vagrant".

Jack Reacher therefore brings a certain amount of liberal-leaning finesse and elan to his encounters.

Jack Reacher is sympathetic to deserters from the Iraq War and particularly severe on capitalist profiteers.

Jack Reacher has expressed sympathy for gays in the military and undocumented immigrants.

Jack Reacher had been investigating the criminal activities of a New York mobster, Croselli but her investigation had been shut down and she had been suspended, pending review as part of a deal cut by Croselli with the FBI.

Jack Reacher had since tried to unsuccessfully bring Croselli down by getting him to boast of his crimes on tape.

Jack Reacher suffered from heart-related ailments and she dies near the end of the story due to a heart attack after having accomplished her goal.

Cruise reprised the role in the sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, an adaptation of the 18th Jack Reacher book, Never Go Back, which was directed by Edward Zwick, and released 21 October 2016.

On 14 November 2018, Child announced that he made a deal with Skydance Television and Paramount Television to produce a Jack Reacher series based on Child's novels, during which feature films would no longer be produced.

Jack Reacher stated that Tom Cruise would not be returning to the role, and that another actor would be cast in the role, which he hoped would represent the character more properly than seen in the films.

The size of Jack Reacher is really, really important and it's a big component of who he is.