I’m laughing as I look at that.  The visual is pristine.

And not to get into the Tom Cruise controversy but to get into the Tom Cruise controversy …
… he is Ethan Hunt, not Jack Reacher.

Reacher is blond, blue-eyed(?), 6’5, and around 250 pounds, and Tom Cruise is not.
… (that’s about 18 stone / 113 kilos and two whole meters for you heathenites) …

Read somewhere that Lee Child was fine/supportive of the initial casting choice for Reacher.  Well, yah, giving the thumbs up probably came with a very serious check.  Or direct deposit.  Likely wire transfer (so very moue-moue).  Payment, in any event.  Can you imagine those zeros and commas?  Must be nice.

The guy on that show from that service is almost perfect.  Almost.  But not quite.  Too bulky.  Very alpha with his shirt off, but methinks Reacher has been described with – not to put too fine a point on it – gorilla arms, long, with meat shovels attached to the ends … á la “Reach-er.” 

And too young.  Reacher?  Forty-ish. 
But the guy on that show from that service has maximized the smirk.  Now that is pure Reacher.

Definitely better than Mr. Mapother, IV.  And how cool is that?  Fourth generation of somebody.  Well, technically we’re all from a long line of someone but how often do folks (boys) get to keep the name?

Anypoo, his latest – “No Plan B” — with … Andrew Child?  Son?  Brother?  Dad?  Cousin?  Unrelated?  Whomever, they wrote a nice little story together.  Had a lot of moving parts.  Started kind of in the middle then brought the ends together. 

And totally plausible, which is the most … sadly human thing about it (sigh).

BUT but, there’s a line in that book that broke me up, made me love the writing even more.  See above.

And the whole Reacher series has been quite good.  And the one where he walked into his girlfriend’s office party with a nail in his head?  Classic.  The ending was kinda sad but also kinda not, because he is, at his core, a rambling man. 

Consistently good reads, which is nice.  Refreshing.  

Because so much else sucks.  This one, tho’?  Recommended brain candy, right alongside the others. 

“Baying and screaming …”  Ha!