Jack Reacher

Lee Child's Jack Reacher is a deliberately mythic figure: a former military cop who drifts across America with no luggage and no fixed address, stumbling into trouble that he resolves with cold tactical precision and a great deal of violence. The novels in this collection, from the debut Killing Floor onward, are mostly self-contained, which is part of the appeal, since you can drop in almost anywhere.

The character's sheer physical scale became the sticking point when Hollywood came calling, and the two films starring a notably smaller lead split the readership. On the page, though, Reacher endures as one of modern thriller fiction's most reliable engines, a one-man correction to a crooked world.

The Jack Reacher franchise spans 9 books, 2 films in the CrossBinge catalog.