Who would win in a showdown between these two heroes?
Even if a casual reader might have a hard time differentiating them, Jack Reacher and Jack Ryan couldn’t be more different as characters. Reacher is an ex-military police officer who has grown cynical through his experience, and begins working outside official institutions to maintain justice. Ryan is more of an analyst than an action hero, and works within the government itself to find peaceful solutions to potentially volatile situations.
Origins and Morality Clancy’s 1984 novel The Hunt For Red October was an instant critical hit and topped the New York Times Bestsellers List. While it seemed like there was finally an American hero who could rival James Bond, Ryan is more of a low-level idealist than a slick charmer. The novel was noted for its conservative themes, its balanced political perspective has promoted the “American dream” without idealizing the military-industrial complex.
Both Ryan and Reacher are fiercely independent; Ryan often struggles to have his voice heard amidst bureaucracy, and Reacher’s experience has made him cagey about trusting others. While both men have respect for those that they’ve served alongside, they are hardly the type of men that would follow blind orders.
Longtime fans of Child’s novels were skeptical when Tom Cruise was cast in the 2012 film Jack Reacher, which was an adaptation of the novel One Shot; Reacher is known for his physicality, and Cruise isn’t quite 6 feet tall. However, Jack Reacher was a much darker action film than Cruise’s recent projects, and marked his first collaboration with director Christopher McQuarrie before he took over the Mission: Impossible series.
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