
This was adapted from the first novel, Killing Floor, and a second season has been ordered, which will adapt Bad Luck and Trouble.ĭevelopment and author's commentary Development Īt the time Lee Child sat down to write his first novel Killing Floor, he was unemployed, having been made redundant from his position as a presentation director for Granada Television. The third adaption is a television series on Amazon Prime Video, starring Alan Ritchson: Reacher (2022). Two of the adaptations are films, starring Tom Cruise as Reacher: Jack Reacher (2012) from the ninth novel, One Shot, and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) from the eighteenth novel, Never Go Back. Three novels have been adapted for the screen. Having left the Army at age 36, Reacher roams the United States, taking odd jobs and investigating suspicious and frequently dangerous situations.Īs of 1 November 2022, 27 novels plus some short stories have been published.


In the stories, Jack Reacher was a major in the US Army's military police. Jack Reacher is the protagonist of a series of crime thriller novels by British author Lee Child, a 2012 theatrical adaptation, its 2016 sequel, and a television series on Amazon Prime Video.

