Lee Child and Stephen King talk Jack Reacher
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2024
- On tour for his latest Jack Reacher novel, Make Me, author Lee Child sat down at the Sanders Theater in Cambridge, MA with writer Stephen King--a huge fan of the series, now 20 long.
Just finished season 1 of Reacher and Ritchson nailed the role. He obviously looks the part, but I was impressed with his acting. He has all the qualities of Reacher and the supporting actor roles were very complementary. Waiting for season 2.
And Lee's cameo was fun.
Couldn’t agree more. I’m waiting with great anticipation for the next season. .
@@messybench yes, I thought that somewhat puzzled look back as he walked past was golden.
Yes he did looking forward to more Alan was also the best part of Titans
Except when he shot those guys in the back . . .
I did not expect Mr. King to be so good at the interview process as the interviewer….. he really draws Mr. Child out with some very insightful questions, both these guys are funny as heck too. I’ve always gotten the humor in their books nice to see it in person. Thanks for keeping this up.
Alan Ritchson is simply perfect casting . He is the epitome of a written character come to life that more than exceeds the persona Lee Child created.
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Season 2 is really great so far. (Saw the first 4 episodes so far as they are spacing them out)
I am a serious Lee Child fan and was impressed with Stephen King, especially his humor.
One of the joys of turning Reacher into a streaming TV show instead of a movie is having space for the small asides like helping and later rescuing a dog. And they've got the right actor for the part at last, plus two dozen books to provide the material, so there will be more. There MUST be more.
Stephen King is so beautifully human. Listening to him in this interview, I get a sense of having a conversation with someone a few barstools over, or on a long bus stop wait. It just like regular everyday jawing. There is zero air of fame-headedness about him. Love this guy.
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I was in the audience, loved the talk, both extraordinary gentlemen. Fan for life.
Amy Chevalier proof.. didn’t think so
didn't think so either!
@@jesscooney8443 I don't think the allow wolves in the audience for these things, but as long as he made it about himself I think it's a win for him.
Awesome
Sounds about right! The 45min video is so easy and entertaining to watch..
Two great authors, I enjoyed the Jack Reacher movies and I'm a big Tom Cruise fan, but it was an odd choice. The Reacher show is great and the actor nails it.
I didn't know anything about Reacher when I saw the first movie, so I had no problem accepting Tom Cruise, but there was one line that jolted me out of the story. When they're framing Reacher for Sandy's murder, the bent cop asks the motel clerk which of her guests could have broken that girl's neck with one punch. And she immediately thinks of Tiny Tom? Why the hell didn't they change that line?
Check out the Amazon series 'Reacher'. I was hesitant, but it was really good. The series covers the first book, so it isn't rushed! And the actor looks more like the Reacher described in the books!
Odd choice? Tom Cruise obviously bought the rights to the series, as a vehicle for himself. You’re absolutely right, the series and the guy playing Reacher, is Reacher. Tom Cruise is a little guy pretending to be a big guy with what seems to be a case of hemorrhoids or early onset ulcerative colitis.
@@kellik5453 Yes, really enjoying it. At last a Reacher that actually fits Child's Reacher.
@@yeekasoose I was just fine with Cruise till that scene. For the frak sake.
Lee Child rocks!!! I have all the Reacher novels & just love every one of them
I think the Rock would have been a perfect Reacher .
@@davidhuston6677 , I have to disagree. Reacher's background comes from Caucasian roots. His mother is established as a white French woman and his father as a white American. Dwayne Johnson has a bit too much of the Pacific roots in his appearance to work as a faithful version of Reacher.
@@jcp1984again ?? I guess I have to agree --- the bald head shows how wrong I was too .
Steve Austin would be a good Reacher…
7 years late but my 2 favorite authors. About 10-12 years ago I was in a small town in Norway working. There was no cell service, no internet, and no TV in the hotel so I went to a tiny corner store that had one of those little metal turning racks full of paperback books. Only 3 of the books were in English. One was "Gone Tomorrow". I was never a "mystery" reader but it had a blurb on the back from my favorite author Stephen King. With my options limited I went with Steves recommendation. Well, that was it, I read through "Gone Tomorrow" twice and when I got home I picked up "Killing Floor" and never looked back. Have read every Reacher book and anxiously await the yearly release of Reachers next adventure. Thought the movies were just ok but love the new series and next season is my favorite Reacher book "Bad Luck and Trouble". Thanks for posting this!
Two legends and both fantastic writers.
I don't watch 45-minute videos, but this was great! I've been a Stephen King fan forever, and recently started reading the Reacher books. Two brilliant guys.
+Breann Neal You sound just like me...a Stephen King fan forever and recently started reading the Reacher books ( I have only read Killing Floor but plan on collecting and reading the rest). I agree they are two brilliant guys. =)
Try Echo Burning, probably one of his best.
Mark Raishbrook Thanks for the recommendation, I will definitely look that one up. =)
You don't watch 45-minute videos? Can you read 100+ page books?
Breann Neal yeah i love Stephen King me to he is very great and one day i will be like him later because i want to become a writer
I like people like Lee Child whose sense of humor is kind-of hard to bring out. You appreciate their jokes more and their laughter more.
As a women I started reading Lee Child from the beginning and love the Jack Reacher character. I wait baited breath for a new book.
What the hell does that feel like, to have an absolute living legend, as a fan? I mean really, I can't think of anyone, in any art, that can top Stephen King's status.
+ALEXANDER NUCKEL are you not a bigger legend then? :P i havent read either author, just love hearing such interviews
WRITERS are HUMAN....and always fans of other writers because they know how difficult the job can be.
Shakespeare? Just a thought ...
@Winslow Neither will King be when he pops his clogs. Irrespective he'll never 'top' old Willie boy, which is the salient point I make, and the issue of whether they're alive or dead is therefore rendered irrelevant. Where's your question mark and opening capital letter, by the way? Tut tut. :-)
@Winslow Ah! I've touched a raw nerve I note, and you've been furiously looking things up on Grammarly haven't you, oh naughty person. Bluster, sunshine, and evading the main point. Have a nice day, and note this: I'm kicking you back under that stone from where you emerged . Don't reply, you're muted. 'Rhetorical' LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Wonderful to have two literary success stories on stage with engaging dialogue. Love that last anecdote about the snake! Great stuff.
The snake story was likely untrue
@@BSFree-es5ml Makes it an even better story then, eh 😉
Superb! and a lot of insight and good laughs. These two guys are rock stars. Thank you.
Bravo, gentlemen. I'm currently reading my 12th Jack Reacher novel, "Bad Luck and Trouble" by Lee Child, so its happenstance that I accidentally bumped into this conversation at Harvard between Lee and Stephen.
This was wonderful to watch. Thank you for this ! Mr. King and Mr. Child both sure are likeable guys. I haven't read a Jack Reacher novel before, I ought to pick one up .
I would personally suggest Echo Burning to start the series with, its my favorite of Jack Reacher series
A couple of weeks of really good fun has turned into 40 years... THAT IS AWESOME!
Its 2022 and we now have a Reacher Amazon TV series that has been a smash hit
Where is that series?
@@camillecarter179 Amazon prime
What a treat! I'd never heard of Reacher until the Tom Cruise movie. I enjoyed the first one. He did as great a job as he could. I'm glad they found a big guy for the Amazon Prime series though.
Just stumbled across this little surprise. What a great interviewer Steven King is. Never seen him on that side of the fence.
I love the Reacher series!! I've read every book in order, of course... what a great character. He's such a cool man.
I'm tha same way. I've been reading the books for over 20 years. And I enjoyed both movies.
But i think they should have started either the movies or especially the series based on the novel. The Enemy. Where reacher was still on active duty. He could have solved that case and then show him getting retired and riding off in the sunset on a bus to start the next episode. That would have made more sense to me as opposed to start in the middle of the series
How sharp is Stephen King?! His mind is incisive and he did a great job as interviewer.
Two of my favourite authors. Funny stories, insightful questions and great conversation. The only thing I can think about now is the snake story. 😯
Having been a big fan of Lee Child’s man-mountain of a character that Jack Reacher is, I honestly was furious when I heard Tom Cruise was going to play him.
I saw the movies before I read the books. I've read about half of them by now.
But even without knowing how big he was supposed to be on the printed page - Cruise still seemed an odd choice. Fighter pilots are rather small so as to fit in those cramped cockpits. So Cruise looked sensible in "Top Gun". But he isn't the kind of guy who beats up hordes of brutes in every bar. I couldn't do that and I'm bigger than Reacher in the books. I was also college heavyweight judo champ.
Reacher is a great character but hardly plausible. He's more like Superman but impervious to Kryptonite.
@@Agorante You said it Sir,,, "Like Superman, but impervious to Kryptonite" Reacher is impossible for all the human reasons, but in all of our lives, we have situations where we just need to believe there's someone among us who COULD have triumphed,,, Reacher fills that spot. Besides the fact that I grew up on Army bases from Augsburg Germany to Ft. Knox KY and was exposed to allot of regular government employees, the MP's I had exposure to, were EXACTLY the kind of people who support Reacher in the books, loyal, fierce, and more often than not, hard as nails. So it's even easier to fantasize that Reacher is possible.
I hated my Stepdad for being a violent drunk, but I now, cherish my days on base, and in the base school systems and base hobby shops. Some of the best memories of my life come from those days.
This was a great watch, even to catch it so long after it happened.
But now, with the Amazon series, we can all celebrate.
Tom Hanks vs Forrest Gump was the same issue. There needs to be more man-mountain actors :-)
I was too. It was almost insulting.
What a delightful pair of gentlemen.
Two of my all time favorites! Have read every novel by each...and love the new Reacher series. Thank you both for so much pleasure in my life.
Two of my favorite authors.probably at the top of my list.
This was wonderful on so many levels. Thanks!!
The only books I ever read. I love Jack Reacher and have read every book and hopes it never stops
Essential viewing for aspiring writers and fans of Messrs King & Child. Wonderful.
Tom cruise could play the reacher character except for size. But because of his portrayal, you didn’t think about the size issue that much. It does make a difference. I’ve seen both actors do the role now and I can appreciate them both. Tom cruise is older and you can tell he’s seen a lot of life. Alan ritcherson is younger. There are moments when he appears older looking in different episodes. They don’t make younger majors but he is from West Point. That speaks to tradition and career choices. Reacher shows the price you pay to remain true to decency, integrity, and a strong personal sense of honor through out your life.
Lee Child is a fascinating understated character. Probably a Myers-Briggs introvert with radar observation and an ability of wit and facile storytelling which endears him to us. His years at Granada television developing such things as The Jewel in the Crown and Prime Suspect! Yes, he knows how to weave an interesting tale! The downside for him is that as an introvert he probably has to do book signings with mobs of people hearing the same thing over and over; he would of course be a gentlemen and non-dismissive. Appreciative even. Wish we had more guys like him around.
Finally got round to reading Jack Reacher. Really enjoying it ao far.
You can see how much Stephen respects Lee Child...love it.
Two of my favorite authors together at the same place, same time.
I've read nearly all of the reacher books. I was very impressed with the cast and how the series honoured the book Killing Floor.
I loved the first Jack Reacher movie. It was my first experience of Reacher. It was great :D
Wonderful. Loved the last two minutes, and Stephen King’s delight in that anecdote. Right up his street.
Two very gifted writers and likable individuals
Stephen King talking about the late Michael Clarke Duncan, who was cast in a movie adaptation of his book The Green Mile:
"He was incredibly buffed out, but he was short. He had to stand on an apple box, and to look smaller, Tom Hanks had to stand in a hole. The movie is shot with high angles to make him appear taller."
The dude, God rest is soul, was 6'5", Steve... I'm gonna go with, he didn't need an apple box. Or a pear one. There goes King writing fiction again :)
Lee Child+Alan Ritchson=Perfect Reacher🥇💪🏻💯
I loved the time Reacher got upset, because the baddies broke his toothbrush!!
"Now I own nothing..."
Thanks for posting and sharing. Great to see these two together.
Love Lee Child novels
can you imagine Steven King talking about how good your books are?
Especially since they are poorly written.
@@kevgh3869 Who are you again? Oh, right.
@@TheKrazyLobster I'm nobody. I just don't like Lee child's writing... at all.
@@TheKrazyLobster He's a reader and that is enough.
That’s like Willie Nelson telling you that your country songs are great.
I have watched this new Jack Reacher Season about 5 times. I can't get enough. Ritchson IS Jack Reacher. I'm so in love I'm gonna read the books now cause I got all his expressions and mannerisms down. I CANNOT WAIT til the next season. And watching my favorite author with I suspect my next favorite author has been DIVINE❤🙌
Tom Cruise will always be Reacher.
Just started reading One Shot after watching the films. I didn't realise the Mr Grant is English. His immersion into American culture is superb, the way he describes directions of travel and layout in towns; I really struggle imagining the layout of urban scenes that he takes great pains over because we English use completely different descriptions. It is only because of seeing the films that the positioning of the car park and the bridge make any sense. This is not a criticism, just admiration at that level of immersion.
Mr. Grant? Huh?
@@davidowens5898 Hi David, it is his real name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Child
Anytime I can hear an author speak, at signings, readings, etc, I take that opportunity. Whether it's insight on characters or on the individual's writing process, it's worth it. Looking for similar content on TH-cam right now.
Love this discussion and both authors!
As a failed sci-fi writer I learned early on that making the story realistic was hard. It's more than futuristic gadgets, rocketships, aliens, exotic locals, and exciting adventures. You need realistic characters. And that typically means fully fleshing out all the characters NOT just the good guy, his love interest, and the bad guy. It's super easy to set up all the descriptive specifics of the local, the plot, the conflict, and the rest of the mundane aspects of a story, but when the protagonist meets other people in the story it's easy to gloss over them by giving them stereotypical characteristics that everybody recognizes without effort. Those attributes are always one-dimensional cliches (the professor with the wrinkled shirt and jacket arm patches, the Chicano with the handkerchief headband, the mother holding a baby with children tugging at her skirt, the frazzled secretary delivering coffee to her boss, the bullies ganging up on the small kid, the college students racing to classes, and the most cliched character of them all, the used car salesman).
Every single one of those characters can be seen on TV at any given moment. The real challenge is to create a living, breathing character that leaps off the page and into the imagination of the reader as a real person with hopes, dreams, and a purpose. I could never do that and that is why I failed at a writing career. If you want to make your story real, like a good meal, fill it with delicious extras that complement the experience that people can sink their teeth into. Most of the time the dialog of secondary characters is also filler except for the tiny bit of key information that they provide. If the character seems real it's because they have a back story and their dialog isn't like elevator music. That's why Stephen King and Lee Child are successful, their main characters are well fleshed out but their subsequent characters are 3D as well and they will haunt you long after you've finished reading the book.
is that so hard to make a realistic character with their past and future or dream? and what's the difference between writing character in short story and novel?
went through the series in a couple of days. Absolutely brilliant casting of Jack
Wow! What a treat. Thank you.
Great entertainment! Thank you 🌟
Brilliant conversation!
Two of my favorite authors, this was worth watching 🌹🌹❤️
One of the best one on ones I ever saw....
Two excellent compelling story tellers! Much respectable n eloquent summary of a formidable hero!
I just gone through 10 Jack Reacher audio books, love them
Sorry....can u send me some of them please
Yep doing the same
After watching Reacher on Amazon and watching Alan on podcasts and hearing his story all this Jack Reacher stuff is coming up on my YT feed and I don’t mind it one bit.
I appreciated Mr. Child's "defense" of Tom Cruise. And I agree that Tom is a very talented and very physical actor. He brought a lot of nuance and feeling to the role. But he still stank as Reacher. All the apple boxes in the world can only get you so far.
At least for the first few episodes I've seen, the new Amazon series "Reacher" is doing a much better job. And the actor playing Reacher, Alan Ritchson, is doing a fantastic job, even if he is only six foot three.
He didn't stink. It was pretty good I think. I know that Reacher's size is a big part of that character but for what it was I thought Cruise's Reacher was pretty badass. Which is probably harder to do being 5'7" and probably the prettiest dude in a 100 mile radius than being an already 6'5" gruff guy.
That said YES. Richson is the total package. He's big, he's smart, he's charisma and presence in boots. Not to mention Amazon can go all out with the gore and nudity which reinforces stakes in the story they're telling.
I hated Tom Cruise as Reacher. I've read every book and TC wasn't convincing as Reacher. He really sucked.. He was also the producer of the movies, so he casted himself. Just my thoughts on how he was able to play a role he had no business playing.
@@jeanelleperez6280 TC is a serious nutcase who is a scientology creep.
In the US people start churches just to avoid taxes.
@@thomaschristopherwhite9043 For me it's not just the height it's that Cruise is great at intensity and Reacher for the most part is pretty laid back when he's beating people up. Cruise is really working, which is great in Mission: Impossible, but that's not what Reacher is about. Cruise is Ad-Rock, Ritchie is MCA.
Man that was amazing! So much warmth and wit . Awesome 👏
Too much literary genius on one stage.
Yet still.....Reacher said nothing.
+Benjamin Bertrand That's for damn sure.
+Benjamin Bertrand : He did shrug, though.
Nice!
Benjamin Bertrand Reacher hasn’t said anything since getting breakfast at the diner.
@@edmontonboy99 😂😂😂
Tom Cruise is literally a guy that Reacher would melt in real life! How about a book with Reacher tearing through Scientology rescuing people that are held hostage psychologically? THAT would be awesome
Reacher rescues Shelly Miscaviage.
basketca2 I love it, Leah Remini could be his female sidekick in the story!
Right! Tom Cruise is NO Jack Reacher. Lee Child should be insulted.
Lucy Rickard unfortunately Lee Child saw that Hollywood money and sold Jack Reacher down the river
Id fn read that
I wish I had not already read all the Jack Reacher books so I could read a new one.
I noted the press your pants under the mattress. It's been talked about for many years before his book hit the shelves. Love the Reacher series.
Excellent interview. Very entertaining!
This is a dream come true. Just showed up in my feed.
Watching Alan Ritchson right now in Reacher. This is exactly what I've been waiting for. Brilliant 👍
Nice interview throughout.
That stuff about Lee and Robert Plant... 😇😇
2:18 Lee Child pronouncing Antigua correctly. Love this guy twice as much now.
So ironic, SK starts talking about a George Carlin bit and they start censoring (7 dirty words)
👍🏽👍🏽
This talk was wonderful over my morning breakfast.
The character of Reacher challenges our preconceived notions. The big brute isn’t stupid, and can outthink you.
I know this is an old comment, but it's really pertinent! Very well said.
I read Lee Child somewhere where he said that Reacher is descendant from "Travis McGee" books penned by John D. MacDonald starting in '64 til '84. Both are wonderful, good reading. Thanks so much.
What are the books called? Please
Do you recommend them? Etc
Thanks
Having read every Travis McGee novel, his character is absolutely a predecessor to Reacher, right down to size and height
Both very thin genius guys - considering the amount of sitting and writing they must do.
I think Stephen maintains his thinness deliberately d/t weight-bearing stress issues ever since he was hit by that guy in the van and almost lost his leg.
@@Elphaba1952 ~ True. And, long before that, King always made a habit of walking 5 miles a day. He was on just such a walk when he was hit by that van in June 1999.
I’ve been in love with Reacher since he hit the bookshelf. How Tom Cruise was selected to play Reacher, instead of someone like Duane Johnson, I have no idea.
Cruise bought the movie rights to about ten of Child's books...of course he, however inappropriately, would chose to be the lead...As long as you didn't know Jack Reacher, it would have been fine, but those of us who have been reading about him for years...well it was wrong.
I am astounded that otherwise intelligent people still cannot fathom how movies get made. Cruise has a production company that won the bidding for the film rights for several Reacher novels. If Cruise has the film rights, which he paid big bucks for, Cruise stars in the film. Period. Every movie he has ever made since becoming a producer has been the same. So he was not somehow “selected” or cast by someone else. If Duane Johnson was cast, he would not have the character nuance that Cruise brings to the screen. He’d just have the physical presence. The films would have been very different.
It's quite simple. I made that decision. I conceived the character of Jack Reacher before pen was put to paper along with a number of other things (La La Land, G.L.O.W., Jessica Jones and others) I didn't have time to write myself and I suggested Mr Cruise partly from an ironic perspective (5'6" Vs 6'5") I am British and it appeals to that sense of humour and partly because I admired the way he handled the character transformation in Rain Man. He's actually a great character actor and Reacher is more of a character than a physique. Whether you're a hobbit by stature or a Hemsworth courage, bravery and strength of character aren't predetermined by your size. That isn't to diminish Mr Child and what he brought to him, he's a phenomenal author and I am a huge fan myself. The reason Reacher is known as Reacher and not Jack is because when I was in secondary school my classmates called me Harper and not Andrew. There was an increasing glamourisation of villany in Hollywood and no counterbalancing heroism. So I conceptualised our knight errant of modern times.
The Merc Cafe in Jamestown, Colorado needs Lee Child to speak there !
Just watched season 1 of Reacher on Amazon Prime. My wife and I really enjoyed it. We enjoyed the movies too. I really liked the Roscoe character. Willa nailed it, and she’s freaking HOT also 👌🏼.
I started My Reacher Read-a-thon at One Shot. Can't put them down, til I finished it. Love every one so far.
Fast forward to 2019 and Lee Child is on board with his readers re: the actor who will portray Reacher in the upcoming TV series. NOT TCruise!
@Richard Burke Alan Ritchson has been cast. Looks just like I imagined Reacher to look! 👍
@@Ozefan2580 too young... :(
@@sarahhiggins7285 Oh I don't know 38, Reacher could quite easily be that age in the earlier books, my problem with the casting is he's far too handsome and not tall or wide enough. I have an inch on this guy and am not as handsome, so I'm a better fit for for the role on two counts :) - Reacher is an implacable 6'5" slab of muscle and definitely not pretty, shame.
I liked the first person vs. third person chat. Good on Stephen King for asking about it.
Great chat!
Stephe King, Your are the Dickens of my generation and I Love your work>
Just watched this, after my father died I discovered he was a big Lee Child fan. And I now totally understand! Just so incredibly views on things.
Why
Joe Manganiello for Jack Reacher, guy's an absolute unit at 6' 5".
That actually makes some sense.
Good call.
@@Vinnie-pu9vw But I read yesterday that they have cast some other guy as the new Reacher. He is supposed to be 6'4" and 230 pounds so he's a bit smaller than the literary Reacher. In Hollywood there seems to be a rule that male stars can be 6'4" at most. If you're taller than that you get cast as a monster. The fine actor Paul Bethany is in fact 6'4" but claims to be shorter. He wanted to not be a casting problem in his early career. Many female leads are tiny. The cameramen and directors can make the tall small or the short big but it takes more effort. If you are just starting out it's simpler to be tall but not too tall. There will always be another young hopeful screen actor who fits in the camera's frame with less trouble.
@@Agorante, I’m sure I read somewhere, it was a while ago that Dwayne Johnson was up for the Reacher role, I think this was before they spoke about making a series,
@@Vinnie-pu9vw
Johnson is sadly the wrong race. Otherwise he would be fine. He plays white men but is half Polynesian and half African. He has had some "work' done on his face especially his nose. He's a really good actor - much better than Arnold or the other wrestlers in action flicks. But he is no more a Caucasian than Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) was Chinese. I watch his movies whenever I can. I think he's the number one male actor in Hollywood now.
BTW I'm 6'4". I liked Bruce Lee but Jet Li and Donny Yen are just too tiny for my taste. Johnson requires less "suspension of disbelief". He looks like an athlete and moves like an athlete.
Actually the role of Reacher doesn't require a particularly good actor, so this new one is likely going to be OK.
So happy seeing this now after binge watching the new Reacher series two book writing geniuses their discourse cracked me up
wow..to OD on my favorite authors at once..thank you..
I so much love this. My favorite writers.
Jack Reacher: the Lone Ranger, Robin Hood, and Batman all combined. Reacher is fictional character that simply 'feels' real to me; like a guy I just haven't been fortunate to meet outside the pages of one of Mr. Child's novels. I like to think that there really IS a guy like Jack Reacher somewhere out there who wanders around the country like a highly skilled, extremely intelligent, and lethal vagbond rescuing regular folks in need; defending the weak and vulnerable. A character who, if he isn't 'real'? He should be. I've read them all. And they were all fabulous. Thanx Lee!
I have been a steven king fan since I read his 1st book
Boy it feels like I’m paying the salaries of Lee Child’s and Mark Greaney, lololol just to say thank you ,from page one I was hooked on ever book I got ,just so well written and I added Mark because he makes me laugh subtle humor,well developed characters .Steven King is of course the master
NOTHING BUT DOPENESS!!!!!
I am Jack Reachers size, and I find it completely impossible to find clothes my size... But, I love the freedom of the thought of it...
Love Lee Childs Reacher series...
Oh wow this is great! I would love to have been there at Sanders to see this pair! What a great video!
I would love to read a crossover of Jack Reacher and Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch. Two titan characters who right wrongs teaming up together.
Yeah
Chris Goodayle Bosch is retired now though.
Reacher, West Point army pro and Bob Lee Swagger, retired Marine Sniper teaming up to solve mysteries. That’s what each does on a daily basis. And if their team-up works consider adding Mitch Rapp to the team. Vince Flynn, RIP, brought Rapp to fruition and a good friend of his and his family is carrying on the Rapp novel series. I would have thrown “The Camel Club” team into the mix but I get the feeling that Baldacci wouldn’t be as accommodating as Stephen Hunter to share their literary characters. And Hunter is beginning to go outside Swagger based books and a whole new author (Jack Carr) is lighting up the international thriller book market.
I wanted someone to ask Lee if British espionage fiction (eg., the James Bond series) had any effect on his writing style. I doubt it did since Lee immigrated to the US over 40 years ago.
Reacher crossover with lucas davenport from john sandford's novels
"That couple of weeks, just last month, turned into forty years." Delightful.
Great presentation. Hard to believe it was shot on a single camera, though; a back-up wide angle camera is normally considered essential. Good job with just one camera, though--thanks!