In the same article he also questions whether Fiedler would find that Reacher's hypermasculinity is a sign of the character's "repressed homosexuality". However, Past Tense, establishes that Reacher hasn't met anyone in his father's family when he visits the town his father came from. Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense.

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In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born. In Bad Luck and Trouble, Reacher deduces that the amount of money deposited without his knowledge into his bank account was a message from Neagley, his colleague from the Military Police Corps.

When another woman is killed the same way while Reacher is under surveillance, he is released but pressured into helping the murder investigation. Cruise reprised the role in the sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, an adaptation of the 18th Jack Reacher book, Never Go Back, which was directed by Edward Zwick, and released 21 October 2016. At the same time Reacher discovers the woman appears to be kidnapped and that the two men are the kidnappers. During the events of Past Tense, Reacher meets three distant cousins of his, one of whom, Mark Reacher, is involved in a murderous criminal conspiracy, with their distant relation not compelling Reacher to show him any mercy. While he is not a master in any one form of combat, he tends to incorporate moves from various styles.

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At the end of the road trip, Reacher parts ways with his companions and finds himself near a hiking trail sealed off by the US Army under mysterious circumstances.

Reacher is mentioned several times in the Stephen King novel Under the Dome, where he is described by the character Colonel Cox as "the toughest goddam Army cop that ever served, in my humble opinion. The team falls into their old roles and routines with ease, their motto still their sacred rule: You do not mess with the Special Investigators. The knight-errant: literally a knight, somehow banished and forced to wander the land doing good deeds.