Why is there not a Jack Reacher game? It has been firmly established that the top-heavy, world-weary hero of Lee Child’s bone-crunching bestsellers (26 novels and counting) would be the perfect video game avatar. As an ex-military policeman, Reacher combines razor-sharp investigative savvy and comprehensive weapons training with the sort of down-and-dirty brawling skills required to break up bar fights among demob-happy jarheads in far-flung postings.
Reacher has very little baggage – either emotional or actual, preferring to criss-cross the USA with little more than a travel toothbrush – yet trouble seems to follow him around. He is constantly butting heads with gangs of hoods, lowlifes and/or mercenaries yet triumphs through sheer force of will. Parachute him into any GTA and Reacher would do just fine.
