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In each, Reacher kills roughly a dozen people-which means, if you do the math, that he’s murdered somewhere north of two hundred people in the course of his lifetime in fiction. Lee Child has now written twenty Jack Reacher novels. His standard procedure, such as it as, based on what had worked, for a right-handed person facing a right-handed gunman, was to drive slightly forward but mostly counterclockwise, a savage rotation from the waist, explosive, exaggerated like a dance move, with the right shoulder whipping hard around, therefore the right elbow whipping hard around, and the right hand and the right palm, the palm smacking hard against the inside of the bad guy’s wrist, and then pushing it, pushing it hard, pushing the gun out of orbit, then clamping on like a claw, the other hand meanwhile coming palm-to-palm with the gun hand, the left against his right, like dancing, like fighting over the gun, but it’s not fighting over the gun, it’s pushing the gun hand, pushing the gun hand back and back, all the time dragging the wrist forward with the claw, until the wrist breaks and the gun drops. The bad guy says, “Back up now.” Reacher doesn’t, and with that act of defiance the power balance between the two of them shifts, imperceptibly, even though, by rights, it shouldn’t-and we are off once again, in what will prove to be one of many ever-escalating, ever-more-exhilarating outbreaks of bloodshed. The bad guy says, “Don’t move.” Reacher steps forward again. How on earth do you move a dead, six-feet-five block of stone? He steps forward. Reacher is a giant-six feet five and built like a block of stone-and some part of his brain tells him that he’s safer in the hallway than inside the door, because the guy with the gun won’t want to shoot him in a semi-public place. But the bad guy has a Ruger P-85 nine-millimetre with a nine-inch suppressor attached to the end of the barrel. He likes to travel light and acquires his guns on an as-needed basis. As is often the case in the Reacher novels-which involve, invariably, Reacher tumbling across some kind of malevolent conspiracy in the American heartland and killing everyone involved-Reacher is unarmed. Midway through Lee Child’s latest in the Jack Reacher series, “Make Me,” Reacher stands facing an armed man in a doorway.