Jack Reacher is the lead character and the protagonist in the series of books by British author Jim Grant who writes under the pseudonym of Lee Child. The short story Second Son features Jack Reacher at 13 years old and High Heat has Reacher as 16. Reacher comes to Amazon Prime Video on Friday, February 4.Chronologically, The Enemy should be read first followed by Night School and then The Affair.You can then read the rest of the novels in publication order. The actor said: 'I'll say that we're gonna be doing a book a season, so the first season will be the first book.I think spending a season on each book is gonna be really enjoyable for audiences.' In a Collider interview, Ritchson hinted that, should the show get future seasons, it will continue to follow the release order of the books. The first Jack Reacher movie was based on the ninth book in the series, One Shot (11th in the overall Reacher chronology), while the second film was based on 18th book Never Go Back. Starting with Killing Floor also serves to set this series apart from the films. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone.

All Jack knows is that he didn't kill anybody. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. This is all hinted at in the book's synopsis, taken from a new tie-in version related to the new Amazon series: 'Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter.

When he gets caught up in the middle of a small town murder, however, this previously mysterious man has to start revealing some things about himself to try and get himself untangled from the crime. Or, as Child put it in a Toronto Sun interview: 'In that book, Reacher is learning to be Reacher.'Īt the start of the novel (and series), Reacher is drifting around the country with no phone and very little in the way of possessions. However, this book provides a great jumping-in point for the series, as the character has to introduce himself to the characters he encounters throughout the story-and, by extension, us as viewers.

Though the first book to come out, Killing Floor is now the fourth Jack Reacher book in the official chronology, behind The Enemy (2004), Night School (2016) and The Affair (2011), as well as a number of short stories. The first eight episodes are based on the first Jack Reacher novel, Killing Floor. When it came to this Amazon Prime Video series, the makers of Reacher chose the first option. Alan Ritchson in 'Reacher.' The character is taken from Lee Child's novels.

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