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Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher in the film version of the books.

Essay | Rough Comforts by Richie Jones

‘Twenty-nine Jack Reacher novels and counting. What does it require of the reader to make it through every headbutt of every book? What does it say about me that I have read them all? What does it say of the writer of twenty-nine Jack Reacher novels?’

Richie Jones on Lee Child’s Jack Reacher franchise.

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