![]() Fans found it hard to accept neatly proportioned Tom Cruise as Reacher for a pair of movies, since the hero, according to the novels, is 6ft 5in and built like a tank. ![]() Screen versions have stuttered in the past. Now the books are to have a fresh life, with a new adaptation launched on Amazon this month. (And to be fair, not just women: Philip Pullman and the great Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami are also admirers.) Despite the apparently blokeish content, with its technical descriptions of weaponry, deadpan sentences and lengthy fight scenes, they are nevertheless popular among a number of impeccably distinguished British literary women – Kate Atkinson, Dame Margaret Drabble and Lady Antonia Fraser among them. Along the way he solves crimes and deals comprehensively, often violently, with the bad guys. ![]() The stories follow the dealings of the eponymous Reacher, a demobbed military policeman, who wanders the US unencumbered by possessions save a toothbrush and a passport. There are now more bestselling books than years separating the author from his former career. I t’s 25 years since James Grant, who had recently been made redundant from his position as an executive at Granada TV, published his first Jack Reacher thriller under the pseudonym Lee Child.
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