David Sexton

A Jack Reacher travesty: The Sentinel, by Lee Child and Andrew Child, reviewed

Lee Child hands over the Reacher franchise to his brother — who transforms the fabulously taciturn Jack into a loquacious pedant

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in the 2012 film directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Credit: Alamy 
issue 24 October 2020

So upsetting it would have been, for those of us who rate Lee Child’s Jack Reacher thrillers so highly, if handing them over to another author had made no discernible difference in quality. After all, we value Child as a writer, not as a production line. So here’s the good news: it makes all the difference.

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