

“Bronze star, silver star, and a purple heart,” another officer lists off his badges.

Retired army,” the chief detective introduces him. The trailer begins with the title character getting arrested and thrown in jail while the staff of the police station go over his achievements. As always, the bad guys - this time, Russian spies and American-Nazi thugs - discover too late that they are no match for Reacher.On Thursday, Prime Video Canada released the official trailer for its “Reacher” TV series starring Alan Ritchson in the leading role. After rescuing Rutherford from a kidnapping attempt, Reacher gradually discovers that the seemingly isolated attack is part of a conspiracy to undermine the coming national election. There, Rusty Rutherford, a nerdy IT manager, is being blamed for a cyber-attack that wiped out the town’s computer data. The story begins when Reacher wanders into the little town of Pleasantville, Tennessee. For another, the hero has become a bit chatty, talking more with other characters and telling readers more about his thinking, including how he maps out hand-to-hand combat in advance with thugs who outnumber him. For one thing, the technologically averse Reacher has acquired a cell phone. The change in authors is subtle but detectable. – Review: 'A Song for the Dark Times' contains two mysteries.– Review: A memoir of a friend and a Knicks fan for the ages.– Book Review: Peter Frampton looks back in a gentle memoir.It is Andrew who wrote most of “The Sentinel,” but because the names “Child” and “Reacher” are forever bound together, he adopted the penname Andrew Child to carry the series into the future.

Lately, he’s been working with Amazon to develop a Jack Reacher TV show starring Alan Ritchson, an actor as enormous and menacing as the character in the books - a welcome change from the pipsqueak (Tom Cruise) who played the role in two Hollywood movies.īut Reacher, the mythic avenger who wanders the back roads of America like a modern day Lone Ranger, is too popular to fade away, so Grant (aka Child), has turned the series over to his younger brother Andrew Grant, the author of nine thrillers published under his real name. Reacher’s creator Lee Child, whose real name is actually Lee Grant, has declared that his days as a novelist are over. The cover of “The Sentinel,” the 25th thriller in the wildly popular Jack Reacher series, declares that it was written by Lee Child and Andrew Child, but no one by either name actually wrote the book. “The Sentinel,” by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Delacorte Press) This cover image released by Delacorte Press shows "The Sentinel" by Lee Child and Andrew Child.
