[carjic]

I agree. I loved them and so did my son until we got to “Echo Burning” and it got pretty bad on Texas and us bad white Texans killing poor illigal mexicans for sport. My son stopped there but I went on until I got to the end of “Nothing To Lose” and what he was putting on the Military and Could not even finish the last few pages. that was 4 months ago and still have not finished it. I’m done.

[RedStateNotShirt]

The fact that the author is British and writing about the US military raised an eyebrow for me.

[virgil283]

I agree, Reacher seemed like a conservative, mostly, until “Echo Burning” and it was as if the author was tryng to kill off the character by making him the opposite of what we thought he was.
Reacher would be a guy who didn't stand out in a crowd like Cruise or do things that drew attention. Some guy would fall over and the crowd would never know that the bad guy had been sucker punched by Reacher. Somebody like Frank Lovejoy would be more like it...

[FreedomForce]

Yeah, Echo Burning was another book that irritated me, but the novels immediately after that one seemed to be back to normal until Nothing to Lose. I really enjoyed the series until I didn’t. Reacher was a great character.

I’ve been wondering if the MP would have had a physical requirement during the time period that Reacher would have served. Would Cruise have been too short to even become an MP in Reacher’s time? According to Wikipedia, Jack Reacher was born in 1960, so he is no youngster and pre-PC requirements might have been in effect.