As Lee himself said, recalling his days brawling in the school playground, “Reacher is me aged nine”. Perhaps, to be fair, there is a bit of Odysseus in Homer, a bit of Madame Bovary in Flaubert and, likewise, a bit of Jack Reacher in Lee Child. The line of his that still echoes in my brain, even now, is: “This is not the first draft – it’s the only draft.” That sounded as if Jack Reacher were writing a novel: nobody was going to mess with his prose.Īnd that, of course, was my fundamental error: to confuse the writer and his hero. I couldn’t sneakily go about rectifying and polishing he didn’t, so I couldn’t. The rule was that I started when he started and finished when he finished. I sat perched on a couch a couple of yards behind him, taking notes for the book that would become Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of “Make Me”. Rule one: if you don’t know the trouble you’re in, keep Reacher by your side.So for months on end, I watched Lee write his 20th novel in the Jack Reacher series, Make Me. The bad guys who jumped Rutherford are part of something serious and deadly, involving a conspiracy, a cover-up, and murder-all centered on a mousy little guy in a coffee-stained shirt who has no idea what he’s up against. Rutherford wants to stay put, look innocent, and clear his name. The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently fired after a cyberattack locked up the town’s data, records, information . . . so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution. In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush.
One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee.īut there’s nothing pleasant about the place.
The Sentinel shows that two Childs are even better than one.”-James PattersonĪs always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. “One of the many great things about Jack Reacher is that he’s larger than life while remaining relatable and believable. Jack Reacher is back! The “utterly addictive” (The New York Times) series continues as acclaimed author Lee Child teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow thriller writer extraordinaire.
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