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Reacher Author Lee Child Shares What The Future Holds for Jack

Reacher creator and author Lee Child on what the future holds for the character, the new novel from his brother Andrew Child, and much more.

Lee Child, the creator of Jack Reacher, whose books have sold over 100 million copies worldwide, was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's This Cultural Life about his life and how he came to create his bestselling character, the foundation for Alan Ritchson-starring Reacher, one of Prime Video's top TV series next to The Boys. Inevitably, the end of the interview touched upon the screen adaptation and what was next for Jack Reacher. No new season of the TV series yet this year, but there will be two books ahead of the streaming series' 2025 return.

The next season of Reacher is still in production and won't be out till next year, but in the meantime, a new Reacher novel will be published in October, and September sees Lee Child's book of short stories, none of which feature Reacher, but are all thriller stories, many of which could become a movie or TV series.

"Reacher: In Too Deep"

Andrew Child is 15 years younger than Lee Child and had become a writer sooner than he did, having written 9 books before Lee Child started. That was why he asked Andrew to take over the books. The last four they co-plotted together, and In Too Deep will be Andrew Child's first solo Reacher novel. As the official synopsis for In Too Deep goes:

"Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.

Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there.

The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in, getting run off the road. The driver was killed.

His captors assume Reacher was the driver's accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk.

A plan that will backfire spectacularly…"

In Too Deep is already available for Pre-0rder.

"Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher"

Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher is out in the first week of September featuring short stories Lee Child wrote over the years that didn't feature Reacher.

"Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected. For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero, Jack Reacher. But even at the height of Reacher's fame, Child's short story writing was not confined to the series; throughout the course of his career, he published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law, including assassins, a bodyguard, CIA and FBI agents, gangsters, and more. Meticulously plotted and packed with Child's trademark action and suspense, the stories show the author's mastery of the short form, and they've never been collected before now.

In "Ten Keys," a drug-dealing hitman feels that he must unburden his fears and guilt to a stranger. A rookie cop in "Normal in Every Way" is assigned to the department's file room, where he makes connections to historic dates that could lead to solving crimes. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he's outsmarted. A military mission is planned to perfection. A potential worker for the Manhattan Project is carefully surveilled by an FBI agent. A killer preys on other killers. Taken together, these stories are a riotous calamity of criminals and crime fighters; individually, they are expertly crafted, piercing tales that hit hard enough to leave a mark.

These twenty intriguing, thrilling, and rapid-fire fictions are sure to please new and longtime fans of Child and to illuminate a side of the author's work unknown to Reacher devotees. Featuring a colorful new introduction from the author, the collection stands as the first book written entirely by Child in three years."

On the Screen Versions of "Reacher"

From his years in television, Child said he knew what an audience wanted, and with the Reacher books, the audience always knew what they were going to get and relied on that comfort and expectation. Child had no problems with Tom Cruise playing a shorter Reacher but didn't expect at the time the readers would object to Tom Cruise's height – though as far as he's concerned, the books are the definitive version and any movie is a side project. Prime Video's series is a closer representation of how fans envisioned the character – with its success proving "lesson learned." At the end of the interview, Child expressed gratitude to the readers for loving the books because this is the love he didn't get when he was younger.

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