Interview: Lee Child reveals whether Tom Cruise or Alan Ritchson make the perfect Jack Reacher

December is the season for hot cocoa and plum cakes, and a new season of Reacher to binge is the perfect Christmas gift for fans. Lee Child’s retired yet fierce military police investigator Jack Reacher is back, and lands right into a shady conspiracy. Jack Reacher was cinematically reprised by Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise in the 2012 and 2016 film Jack Reacher while actor Alan Ritchson headlines Prime Video’s Reacher franchise. So which one of these actors makes the perfect Reacher, we asked author Lee Child, who is also an executive producer on the series, as he sat down for an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times. “I was a little worried at first I thought is anybody going to like this man because you know he's homeless, never changes his clothes, he was a strange proposition, but am glad he is turned into some sort of a legend.” Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in the film adaptation of the books.