11/12/2022 0 Comments Jack reacher blue moonChild’s place is on 35 acres, protected by thousands of acres of forest, lakes and ranch land. Unobstructed views stretch 20 miles into the distance. Miles of dirt road lead upward to an immaculate, rustic house with decks on three sides. “I wanted him completely out of his comfort zone,” Child says. He gets into a vicious gang war between Ukrainians and Albanians. The Jack Reacher in “Blue Moon” is older than previous incarnations. Outside their doors, few people know that a best-selling author has started spending three months of the year nearby. It’s got a place that serves cappuccino and arty beer that, Child confirms, Reacher would be “bemused by.” Sitting in a booth with his back to the wall, Child faces a rainbow flag Laramie is where Matthew Shepard was killed for being gay 21 years ago, and this city of 32,000 continues to honor his memory. He wants her to remember him, because it might be handy.īut here in the real world, I’m meeting the reedy, 6-foot-4 Child - actual name, James Dover Grant - and not his brawnier, inch-taller hero. He sits with his back to the wall, eats like a trencherman and gets acquainted with the waitress. He downs amounts of coffee that would put most people on life support. As any devotee knows, Reacher spends a lot of time in diners. 29), I am in Laramie to have coffee in a diner with Reacher’s creator. Now, with a Reacher TV project in the works and the 24th novel in the series on the way (titled “Blue Moon,” it will arrive on Child’s 65th birthday, Oct. But Child and Jane, his wife of 44 years, decided to stay. You could visualize the immense flat expanses of old railroad land stretching toward the foothills of the Rockies, the long miles of dirt road down which anyone could disappear under a vast open sky. The book was “The Midnight Line” and it was unusually transporting for a Reacher thriller. Two books ago, Lee Child’s Jack Reacher passed through the southeast corner of Wyoming in his efforts to track down the owner of a pawned West Point ring. the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.LARAMIE, Wyo. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she’s letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right.Īn elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. “This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” “Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.”-Ken Follett and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet.
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