Creating a Don Quixote of the Cheap Motel Circuit

Lee Child is 6 foot 5, the same height as Jack Reacher, the sexy, drifter hero of his best-selling thriller series, but he’s about 75 pounds lighter. He hardly looks like a condom crammed with walnuts, as a female friend of Reacher’s once described him, and he doesn’t appear to be the sort of person who would be much use in a bar fight. You can’t picture him head-butting, or breaking someone’s nose with his elbow. Reacher does both in “Nothing to Lose,” the 12th and latest installment in the series, while taking on six assailants at once. He also breaks a guy’s ribs with a chair leg and crushes the larynx of another.

The full New York Times story here.

And yesterday's NYT review of Nothing to Lose here.