This isn’t the same thing as aesthetic judgment-deciding whether a book is good as a work of art. If something makes our disbelief become unsuspended-one implausibility too many, a series of narratorial bum notes-then the whole fiction comes crashing down. Rather, as readers, we usually fight the story a little bit at the beginning, while we’re getting our ear in then we submit, and are carried along by the flow, unless something happens to jolt us out of it. The suspension is voluntary, though not necessarily conscious it’s not as if you reach up and toggle a setting in your brain. Kikuo JohnsonĪll fiction depends on what Samuel Taylor Coleridge called “the willing suspension of disbelief,” the reader’s decision to put the argumentative, quibbling part of his mind into neutral and go along for the narrative ride. It features an introduction by Lee Child, but is not a Jack Reacher novel.The Jack Reacher novels deftly ground wish fulfillment in earthbound detail. Please note: Jack Reacher’s Rules is a compilation of advice, wisdom, and facts from the Jack Reacher series of novels by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child.

Now the hard-won knowledge and hard-hitting strategies of fiction’s toughest tough guy are within every thriller reader’s reach-in a rapid-fire rundown of the trade secrets, tried-and-true tricks, and time-honored tactics that separate the man in the street from the man to beat. The brainchild of #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, Reacher is a freelance troubleshooter with a mysterious past-and a serious passion for justice.

Case in point: Jack Reacher, the two-fisted, quick-witted, “current poster-boy of American crime fiction” ( Los Angeles Times). You don’t have to break the rules if you make the rules. I’ve got a rule: People mess with me at their own risk. Jack Reacher’s Rules is the ultimate fan’s guide to the World of Reacher! Featuring selections from all seventeen electrifying Jack Reacher novels and an introduction from Lee Child himself, this one-of-a-kind book compiles timeless advice from maverick former army cop Jack Reacher, the hero of Lee Child’s blockbuster thrillers and now the star of a major motion picture.

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