12/27/2022 0 Comments Jack reacher books in reading orderThe vastness and emptiness of Canada is certainly Reacher territory. Oh, there's plenty, even if we don't have militias and the like. Possibly too empty and you might not find enough trouble. It was a choice of fitting the character to the environment. He had to be represented in America he wouldn't have worked anywhere else. This sort of character was born in Europe when it was an empty, dangerous continent, but would not work there now. How do you manage that?Ī character like Reacher can only operate in dangerous, frontier places. The voice and setting feel decidedly American. ![]() You're English, which surprises a lot of people, but you've set all these novels in the U.S. But whereas Reacher wears the white hat, Parker is a black hat. And yes, obverse is correct, exactly the obverse, since the characters have many of the same skills and dispositions. ![]() I know the Parker novels well but didn't begin to read them until I'd started the Reacher series. Both are big, dangerous men who wander the country and resent and resist authority. MacDonald on your work, but I see something of Richard Starks's Parker in Reacher. You've spoken of the influence of John D. I wrote the first book without a name in mind, I was completely stuck until my wife suggested that, after I lost my broadcasting job in Britain, that, with my size I could be a reacher in a supermarket. Usually when I'm searching for a name I look around my office until I see the name of an author, or a brand of stationery, that works. The most difficult thing for me in writing is coming up with character names. He came out of Scandinavian sagas and English tales of knights and survived into the American West and pop lit. Retrospectively, I look at the character as an update of a very old figure, who comes out of 1,000 years of literary tradition: the loner, the mysterious stranger, the knight errant who shows up, solves a problem and then leaves. So I metaphorically closed my eyes and wrote about whatever came out. I felt that, to make a book work, you can't over-think it, or tailor it for male or female readers. How did you come up with the Reacher character? And the second, how and why did he leave the army, is answered in Along with people enjoying the current-day stories, they've had two long-standing questions What was he like in the army, which was answered in ![]() It fills the gap between the first one and the start of the series. Why have you chosen to tell what we might call Jack Reacher's origin story in The Affair ?
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