What to know about Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories
Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories by Lee Child was first published in 2025, and it sits in the Jack Reacher series.
Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories is a novella in the Jack Reacher series (Book 29.5), and it reads best after Book 29, In Too Deep, which we have reviewed. 1 of the 49 books in the series have a full review here.
Lee Child is a familiar name here: 3 of Lee Child’s books have full reviews, averaging 3.8 out of 5. Our favourite to date is Eleven Numbers (4★).
From the publisher
Lee Child tells the stories behind the stories from the bestselling Jack Reacher novels.
Includes a new, never-before-seen Reacher tale.
After making his debut in 1997’s The Killing Floor, Jack Reacher has quickly become one of the most popular—and most enduring—fictional heroes to emerge in the past half century. Now, his creator tells the stories behind the stories.
These are the origin tales of all of the Reacher novels written solely by Lee Child, chock full of colorful anecdotes and intriguing inspirations. One by one, they expand upon each novel and place it in the context not only of the author’s life, but of the world outside the books. And taken together, they chart the rise of an action icon, from 1997’s The Killing Floor to 2019’s Blue Moon. An afterword by crime fiction expert and bookseller Otto Penzler considers the importance of the character and novels in the canon of contemporary crime fiction.
In addition to the essays, this collection also includes an original Reacher short story—the first new Reacher appearance entirely written by Lee Child since 2019. Entertaining and enlightening, Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories is a must-read for fans of the Jack Reacher series and a capstone to any collection of this excellent author.
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
