So not only was it the first time but it had a specific kind of purpose behind it.

We felt that Reacher needed a push into the future in terms of technology with The Sentinel. Lee says of the new book: “Every once in a while you have to take stock and recalibrate. I spoke to the brothers via Zoom, Lee in New York surrounded by his guitars, and Andrew in Wyoming. The first one they did, The Sentinel, got great reviews. A daunting prospect, seeing how Reacher fans are quite particular, to put it nicely. Reacher, who has a big heart figuratively and probably literally, offers his help and a plan to get Dendonker.īetter off Dead is number 26 in the series, and the second one that Lee wrote with his brother Andrew, who is set to take over the series. The bad guy Dendonker is an illegal arms dealer and Michael knows how to make bombs. She is looking for her twin brother Michael, thinking he could be dead. Reacher is heading to the Pacific Ocean but gets waylaid when he finds himself on a road outside a small dusty desert town on the Arizona-Mexican border. Then we go back to the beginning of this new adventure. Punches, blocks, calculates and knocks the guys out. Somewhere between a hobo and a Neanderthal. His clothes looked cheap and ill-fitting, except for his shoes.

Chest like a gun safe and hands like backhoe buckets. We naturally assume The Stranger is Reacher due to the description: “They’d been told to expect someone big and this guy sure fit the bill. As agreed.” Four men get out of a car, which was not agreed. In front of him is an abandoned lot of rows of locked-up garages. The Stranger is standing under the only working streetlight in a compound near a metal fence that separates the US from Mexico. The action is slowed down and there is a play-by-play sequence of what is happening. The first chapter is classic Jack Reacher.

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