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With his fourth season in production and a spin-off involving his good pal, Neagley (Maria Sten)<\/a>,\u00a0underway, it’s safe to say whatever secret sauce has been applied to bringing Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) to television in “Reacher” is doing the trick. Audiences are addicted to seeing the ex-military legend cracking cases, skulls, and any other object that would be an obstruction to us mere mortals. Following all this success, the original author of the Jack Reacher books has settled on a conclusion as to why Ritchson’s world-shaking hero, who has a hunger for delivering justice in his own way, has become such a huge hit. After already struggling to bring Reacher to life with the Tom Cruise-led failed movie franchise, Child believes that it’s the pacing of “Reacher” in a television format that has made him the hit that he is.<\/p>\n “My theory is that if you have a relentless non-stop pace that’s the same thing as having no pace at all,” Child explained in an interview with ShortList<\/a>. “What you need is to show the differences; the quiet parts make the action parts even more effective. And so that was the thrill and the fun of doing a whole season on one story.”\u00a0 But while Child might be glad that Reacher is getting this long-overdue attention, he does wish that entertainment in this form had come sooner, thereby providing perhaps one of the most successful and effective ways of bringing a book to life in a way films can’t.<\/p>\n