Stephen King's novel 'Under the Dome' features a surprising crossover with Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Colonel Cox mentions Jack Reacher in connection with Jackie Wettington, a character in the novel.
Stephen King is famous for connecting his stories, often setting them in the same fictional towns such as Derry or having characters appear in multiple works that aren’t direct sequels to each other. The Dark Tower series hinges on all of his stories – and even King himself – being connected into one huge multiverse. King has also written stories inspired by the likes of H.P.
Lovecraft and Arthur Conan Doyle, but he rarely takes specific characters from the works of other authors and puts them in his own worlds. One exception is the titular character from the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. King included multiple references to the hulking ex-military investigator in his 2009 novel Under the Dome, not just as a fictional character, but as a real person with a connection to another character in the book. While Reacher doesn’t appear in person, the idea that he’s out there somewhere in the book’s universe is fascinating, especially since Under the Dome seems very different from the crime thrillers from which he originates – at least on the surface. Under the Dome follows the story of a small Maine town called Chester’s Mill that mysteriously gets cut off from the outside world by an invisible dome. While the military operates outside to figure out the cause and get people out, there are also two ex-Army people on the inside: Jackie Wettington, a police officer for Chester’s Mill, and Dale “Barbie” Barbara, basically a drifter in town. Both are tapped by Colonel Cox from the outside to keep things under control inside the dome, and that’s where Jack Reacher comes in. While he’s never actually present during the events of the book – or the show for that matter – he’s brought up twice, both times in reference to Wettington. Cox explains that Wettington broke up a drug ring in Germany while in the Army and'was personally recommended by a man named Jack Reacher
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