r/JackReacher

I’ve been trying to read the Jack Reacher books (killing floor rn) and I’m curious what people consider the “golden age” of the franchise. Bc from what I heard, 7-20 seems to be pretty consistent bangers for a lot of people. I pretty much see no one talk about anything before 7 (beside the first obviously) in general and even then I heard 3 has some pretty bad things… and everyone seems to universally agree that anything after 24/25 sucks. But what do you guys think. I’m also using this to just kinda gauge which books are going to be good or not so good, so that I can prepare myself accordingly and lower and higher my expectation.

I say it is "The Visitor/Running Blind". The whole book grips on the mystery of the serial killer of those 4 women, which I think it will be impossible to translate well to a TV show, or even a hypothetical movie. Besides, it lacks action (except for Reacher briefly spanking some gang members), and on top of that, it shows a Woman killing Women, which is a taboo in a Woke-ruled society.

Before I posted, I did a search and can see that the movie War Machine hasn't been discussed in about seven months.

I never knew it existed until this week and because I am a reacher fan and a Alan Ritchson fan, I immediately decided to watch it. Very glad I did.

As I was watching it, I do have to say that I did reach out to my nephew in law who became a Ranger within the last five years. I asked him about some of the things that made him laugh or raise an eyebrow and he said that even though nothing is perfect, he really really enjoyed the movie.

So did I. It's not going to win any awards. But it sure satiated this REACHER fan who misses the show right now. Check it out.

I have loved the series and watched since they first came out, for some reason only recently decided to read the books! I have read the first 3 and here are my thoughts on them. What’s everyone else think?

Killing Floor - 9/10
Rating may be impacted as I saw the series first. Saying that, I could still how the story developed and the mystery was revealed. I particularly liked how Reacher came to his conclusions (Staying up all night reading, the slower burn on the paper dye etc) compared to the show. Love how in the book he is clearly smart first and strong second, I kind of think the TV show does this the other way round??Also wish they did the Teale killing story Blind Blake in the show!

Die Trying - 8.8/10
Loved that this was a new story for me! I thought the first half of the book where they didn’t know where the truck was going or why she had been kidnapped was great! And how good was the sniper scene was amazing. And when he was in those caves it me feel like I was in them too! Once it became clear that the militia had a mole in the FBI, I thought it was a bit obvious that it was one of the two guys helping find her (I kept trying to tell myself maybe the mole was her father to make it more shocking when the reveal came😭). Who can’t love Reacher outsmarting and killing stupid neo nazi’s !

Tripwire - 6.4/10
I did really enjoy the reading this, I just didn’t think the story was as strong as the others. It kind felt like Lost, where they keep trying to have a big mystery page turner at the end of every chapter, and you can’t be 100% hit rate on them all I don’t think. I must say the 15 year old Jodie stuff made me feel weird I tried to skip over those passages. I also thought there was way too much time spent on the businessman’s wife, just for them not be mentioned at all after it happened? It felt like it was building up to a bigger ending than we got. I promise I did enjoy this book though, am I being harsh? Thought the mystery around Hobie was fantastic, it was told perfectly!