He came out of Scandinavian sagas and English tales of knights and survived into the American West and pop lit. Retrospectively, I look at the character as an update of a very old figure, who comes out of 1,000 years of literary tradition: the loner, the mysterious stranger, the knight errant who shows up, solves a problem and then leaves. So I metaphorically closed my eyes and wrote about whatever came out. I felt that, to make a book work, you can't over-think it, or tailor it for male or female readers. How did you come up with the Reacher character? And the second, how and why did he leave the army, is answered in Along with people enjoying the current-day stories, they've had two long-standing questions What was he like in the army, which was answered in It fills the gap between the first one and the start of the series. Why have you chosen to tell what we might call Jack Reacher's origin story in The Affair ?
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