>The past couple of nights I have been reading "61 Hours," the latest in Lee Child's hit series featuring Jack Reacher. Reacher is one of the memorable fictional characters of our times. He is ex military police, which doesn't sound promising. it turns out he was near the top of the heap and equipped to handle the baddest of the bad. As the series begins he is itinerant, no fixed address, no possessions. He has shed everything that would tie him to any kind of conventional life. He owns what he wears on his back, literally. Every four days he buys new clothes and discards the old ones into a trash can.

Curious: If all he owns are the clothes on his back then how does he buy the next lot ?

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>He doesn't say much. The prototypical paragraph throughout the series has been "Reacher said nothing." But when the time comes for action, he is ready to respond.
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>He is sort of a modern knight, or maybe samurai. (No, not samurai; they were on salary). He keeps stumbling into situations where the innocent need protection against oppressors. He's their guy.
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>Recommended.