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He received a formal English education, learning Latin, Greek, and Old English, before he attended law school in Sheffield. note 1] Andy Martin notes that "just as Reacher is half- Rimbaud, half- Rambo, Child is both art-for-art's-sake Parnassian and ruthless businessman. Lee Child has described Reacher's accomplices and their characterization and origin in the following terms: " The whole cast for each book is new. p.176–177) However, when she witnesses Reacher's outrage at the hurt inflicted upon an innocent waitress, she reconsiders and states that he is actually not feral as she had earlier presumed. No mortgage, no wife, no ties, he is a perfectly free agent, unlimited and unbound, incapable of ever settling down.In the same article he also questions whether Fiedler would find that Reacher's hypermasculinity is a sign of the character's "repressed homosexuality". While Reacher knows how to drive, in A Wanted Man he professes to be a bad driver, and in Bad Luck and Trouble he says he cannot rent a car because he does not have a driver's license. Regular references are made to the fact that Reacher's given name is Jack, which is not a nickname for John, and that he has no middle name.

In Second Son Reacher is impressed with his grandfather's stoic acceptance of approaching death and says that "A man who survived Verdun and The Somme as well as the WWII anti-Nazi Resistance has already beaten the odds". Child tends to agree with such observations: "I was huge as a kid and Reacher's stature is me translated as a kid. One of the others is named Stan Reacher, and reveals that Reacher's father (real name William) used his name to enlist in the Marines while underage after killing a local criminal. There is something of the hippie in his rootless roaming around America, seeking out injustice and righting wrongs.

I would love to see the stories behind Temperance Brennan, DCI Robert Kett, DCK Jack Logan, and DCI William Blake. Reacher leaves town with good new stories about his father, but with little additional insight into his exact family tree. The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline. Since our world is changing rapidly, allow their main characters to evolve with the times makes them even more real to me, and admirable.