Read more about Jack Reacher at: Wikipedia Official Site: Lee Child Jack Reacher is a fictional character, the protagonist of a series of books by British author Jim Grant (who writes under the pen name of Lee Child). A feature film starring Tom Cruise as Reacher, Jack Reacher, was released on December 21, 2012. While unemployed and midway through writing the first novel with the character as yet unnamed, Lee Child visited his local supermarket with his wife. An elderly lady approached him and asked him to reach an item off a high shelf for her. His wife commented: "Hey if this writing thing doesn't work out, you can be a reacher in a supermarket." Jack Reacher is a former United States Army Military Police major. He was born on a military base in Berlin in 1960. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he served 13 years in the Military Police, during which time he became part of a fictional military police unit, the 110th Special Investigations Unit, formed to handle exceptionally tough cases, especially those involving members of the United States Army Special Forces. Though he was demoted from Major to captain in the prequel novel The Enemy, he regained the rank of major by the time he mustered out in 1997. He received many military awards during his career, including the Silver Star, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Soldier's Medal, the Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart for wounds sustained in the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983.
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