Lee Child Trivia

1. At the end of "61 Hours," the previous book in the series, Reacher's survival is left in doubt. "Worth Dying For" explains how he survived the cataclysmic climax of "61 Hours." What injuries (if any) did he sustain?

From Quiz A Quiz "Worth Dying For"

Answer: He strained almost every muscle in his body

In his 2010 short essay, "The Cliffhanger," Lee Child explains his rationale in "leaving us hanging." Child believes that his readers are smarter than the average person, and most will have filled in the blanks and come up with their own solutions to Reacher's survival. Since some time has passed between the end of "61 Hours" and the start of "Worth Dying For," Reacher's survival doesn't receive detailed narration. Rather, "Worth Dying For" gives an anticlimactic, almost mockingly brief explanation of what happened, almost as if to say, "You already had this figured out. I shouldn't even have to tell you."

From Quiz Lee Child's "61 Hours"

Answer: A lawyer goes to meet with a prisoner

It turns out that the lawyer was an unwilling go-between for the bad guys. Of course, the poor lawyer eventually ends up dead. A tour bus carrying Reacher and a bunch of old folks to Mount Rushmore does crash early on in the book (it skids out of control trying to avoid the lawyer's car, as a matter of fact), but this happens after we read about the lawyer's "interview."

From Quiz Lee Child's "Gone Tomorrow"

Answer: Human Resources Command at the Pentagon

Even though she worked for an agency that handled no secret information, Susan was "good with computers," and a network security bug allowed her to acquire an extremely sensitive photograph. Loading it onto a computer memory stick, she tries to take it to her blackmailers, but a traffic jam makes her late for her rendezvous. Having tossed the memory stick and her cell phone out her car window in frustration, she decides to get on a subway train to go confront the blackmailers, who have killed her adult son due to her tardiness. Reacher mistakes her for a suicide bomber on the train, and his interference leads to her suicide. The memory stick rapidly becomes the objective of everyone in the book - no one knows yet that Susan threw it out her car window. Reacher learns that it holds a photograph of Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1983, meeting with U.S. Delta Force soldiers (Congressman Sansom and his aide Springfield among them) on a secret "friendship" mission - the theory being that any enemy of the Soviets was a friend of the United States. This turns out to be an important theme in the story: "Sometimes our friends become our enemies, and our enemies become our friends." The photo might have been incriminating to a congressman campaigning for the Senate, but we never do find out why the bad guys wanted it so much.

From Quiz Lee Child's "Nothing To Lose"

Answer: Eastern Colorado

Hope supposedly got its name from settlers on their way to the West Coast. An optical illusion resulting from the topography made the Rockies seem very close, promising a shorter journey. However, after a few more miles, the illusion vanished, and the mountains once again appeared to be impossibly far away. Some of the pioneers apaprently threw in the towel then and there, bitterly naming their settlement Despair. The two towns are polar opposites in appearance as well as attitude: Hope represents small-town friendliness and is well-maintained, while Despair is ugly and run down, and its residents are as hostile and secretive as can be.

From Quiz Lee Child's 'Bad Luck and Trouble', Part One

Answer: Franz

Calvin Franz was part of the (fictitious) 110th Division of the United States Army, an elite group of Military Police. All of the others were members too.

From Quiz Lee Child's Jack Reacher Novels

Answer: Army

He spent 13 years in the United States Army.

From Quiz A Quiz "Worth Dying For"

Answer: The doctor

As the doctor is getting drunk in the motel's lounge, the phone rings. The caller is one of the doctor's patients, requesting treatment. Reacher urges (almost intimidates) the doctor to make the house call. Since the doctor is too drunk to drive, Reacher drives. What Reacher learns at the patient's house impels him to get involved in the local politics. Later, we see why the doctor was so reluctant to make the house call, and why he was drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

From Quiz Lee Child's "61 Hours"

Answer: Minimalism

Lean and clean, spare and forceful, this is language that packs a punch as powerful as Jack Reacher, our tough guy lead character. Some examples: In just two pages, the paragraph "The guy said nothing." appears eight times. In the climactic scene, the following sentence whips the action to a breathless frenzy: "He charged on, three [stairs] at a time, four at a time, not breathing, anaerobic, up and up and up, round and round and round, not counting, just running, running, running, climbing, churning, hammering, straining, hurling himself toward the surface." In one section, the following phrases appear as complete paragraphs: "One minute past eight." "Nothing happened." "Two minutes past eight." "Nothing happened." "No sound." "No siren." "No one came." Wow. Also worth mentioning about "61 Hours" are the recurring devices that Child uses to describe time ("Five to eight in the morning. Forty-four hours to go.") and place ("Seventeen hundred miles south ..."). These little hooks are slick, cool, and greatly enhance the story's suspense.

From Quiz "Persuader" by Lee Child

Answer: Teresa Daniel

Teresa Daniel was placed undercover into Beck's company to find out how he was smuggling drugs into the country. Unfortunately she disappeared shortly afterwards, and to compound the problem the operation was "off the books".

From Quiz Lee Child's "Gone Tomorrow"

Answer: Afghani terrorists

Originally posing as a Russian mother and daughter wanting to meet with a U.S. serviceman who had "once been kind" to the mother, they turn out to be the "most dangerous people" Reacher has ever met. They and their "crew" of 20 men will stop at nothing to obtain Susan Mark's photograph.

From Quiz Lee Child's "Nothing To Lose"

Answer: A dead body

As it is pitch dark at the time, Reacher must rely on senses other than his eyesight to try to identify the body, which turns out to be that of the young Raphael Ramirez, a military deserter trying to escape to Canada. He chose death over exposing his fellow deserters to the authorities. The "smuggling" of human cargo into Canada is just one of many of Despair's secrets. Lucy "Lucky" Anderson, whom Reacher meets in Hope's restaurant, is the wife of one of the deserters. The Military Police FOB (forward operating base) just outside of Despair plays an important part in the story - not so much regarding the deserters, but more in the way of guarding the sensitive material being processed in Despair's metal recycling plant.

From Quiz Lee Child's 'Bad Luck and Trouble', Part One

Answer: Portland, Oregon

He receives an alert via his bank account when Neagley deposits $1,030. A ten-thirty radio code with the MP's meant 'Urgent Assistance Required'. He eventually does head to California, landing at LAX airport.

From Quiz Lee Child's Jack Reacher Novels

Answer: Military Police

And a very good one, as seen in 'The Enemy', a prequel to the other novels. His brother Joe worked in Military Intelligence.

From Quiz A Quiz "Worth Dying For"

Answer: Haulage of crops

The local farmers' struggle for survival is a difficult one, and the Duncans' services are the only feasible way to get the annual harvest hauled away. Not only do they provide haulage to those who do what they say, but they also severely punish the less obedient. For example, they send enforcers out to the motel to destroy the doctor's Subaru after he went against them.

From Quiz "Persuader" by Lee Child

Answer: Richard Beck

Richard was being driven by his bodyguards from his school to his home to arrive in time for his mothers birthday. The attempted "kidnapping" would cause Richard's father to investigate, and attack, those whom he believed had gone after his son.

From Quiz Lee Child's "Gone Tomorrow"

Answer: A DVD

The DVD is a video made by the Hoths of them cruelly torturing two men to death. Child's depiction of the video was actually quite difficult for me to read due to its graphic nature. Reacher even threw up after viewing it, but he blamed it on being physically overwhelmed by rage at these two heinous killers, not on his being squeamish about the torture. The first victim on the video was an Afghani man who offended the Hoths by helping an American journalist, and the second victim was Peter Molina, Susan Mark's son. The other three answer choices - memory stick, cell phone, and the VAL rifle - were also important items in the story.

From Quiz Lee Child's "Nothing To Lose"

Answer: An officer of the Hope Police Department

Wherever he goes, Reacher always seems to find a beautiful and intelligent woman. A recurring theme in the series is that of Reacher referring to his lady friends (in many cases) by their last names only.

From Quiz Lee Child's 'Bad Luck and Trouble', Part One

Answer: Beverly Wilshire

When more of 'The Old Team' arrive, the crew head to a different hotel, as local law enforcement were sniffing around the Wilshire. I seriously hope you spotted the little Monopoly trap there.

From Quiz Lee Child's Jack Reacher Novels

Answer: Tall, well-built, short fair hair and blue eyes

A very imposing figure. Reacher is approximately 6ft 5in tall (approx 196cm), and is always described as very muscular.

From Quiz Lee Child's "61 Hours"

Answer: He is only four feet eleven inches tall

As one of Child's classic villains, Plato is suitably bitter, cruel, sadistic, amoral, and ruthless. When one man was stupid enough to refer to Plato as a midget, Plato saw to it that the offender was knocked out and taken to a hospital, where surgeons cut off his legs below the knees, making this poor soul's new height four feet ten inches. The man later received a "gift" from Plato, along with a "request" that the gift be displayed permanently. You can probably guess that the gift was a tank filled with formaldehyde and containing his recently amputated legs and feet.

From Quiz "Persuader" by Lee Child

Answer: In the heel of his right shoe

The email device becomes an issue when Reacher wants to show Paulie a martial arts kick at a punch bag. He decides not to do this because he is right footed and there was a chance that the device could become damaged during the kick.

From Quiz Lee Child's "Gone Tomorrow"

Answer: Bribing the night porter

He employs this tactic several times during the story. I wonder how many people went out and tried this after reading the book...

From Quiz Lee Child's "Nothing To Lose"

Answer: In a facility for veterans with traumatic brain injury

David Robert Vaughan, while a member of the National Guard, was seriously injured in Iraq when an IED (improvised explosive device) destroyed his Humvee. The doctors expected the swelling in his brain to abate, leading to at least a partial recovery, but it never did, and he is still confined to bed, unable to move, speak, breathe without a respirator, or respond to stimuli. Her husband's tragic state has caused a great deal of pain for Vaughan, and her emotional struggle is a dominant theme in the book. Once we learn about David, we understand why she has hidden so much. We also come to understand her rage at the military deserters moving through Despair, and sympathize with her as she makes a crucial decision at the story's climax. A particularly compelling scene is the one in which Reacher intimidates the staff at David's facility into cleaning up their act, explaining to them that veterans and their families deserve respect.

From Quiz Lee Child's 'Bad Luck and Trouble', Part One

Answer: O'Donnell

O'Donnell arrives first, followed shortly by Dixon, both of whom had been unreachable. These four are all that remains of 'The Old Team'.

From Quiz A Quiz "Worth Dying For"

Answer: Brett

Reacher: "What is this, the Twilight Zone? You've all got the same name?" Brett: "Only three of us." Reacher: "Out of ten, right?" Brett: "Yes." Reacher: "Thirty percent. What are the odds?" (Brett doesn't answer.) The ease and flair with which Reacher immobilizes all ten Cornhuskers is pure pleasure to read. He doesn't kill any of them, but he does hurt them. He hurts them bad. At one outrageously funny point, Reacher forces one of them to eat the SIM card from his cell phone - his "punishment for being a useless tub of lard." Names are an important part of the story. Dorothy Coe, for example, is always referred to by first and last name. (Before her full name is revealed, however, she is "the housekeeper" or "Dorothy the housekeeper.") We never learn the names of the doctor, his wife, or Mahmeini's man. A skilled literary analyst may be able to give good reasons for why some characters in "Worth Dying For" are named and others are not. Personally, I think Child made arbitrary choices in order to get the more observant among his readers to think, ponder, and remember.

From Quiz Lee Child's "61 Hours"

Answer: A drug deal

Drugs--specifically, methamphetamines--turn out to be an important theme in the book. We eventually find out that Plato is a drug lord who has become wildly rich from selling drugs to Americans. The money is less important to him, though, than the thrills he gets by watching people become slaves to their habits. Reacher admires Mrs. Salter's principles and comes to like her personality. This makes it all the worse for Reacher when she dies. Rage, shame, and guilt nearly overwhelm him, but he is able, with help from Susan Turner, to subdue these emotions and focus on what he needs to do next.

From Quiz "Persuader" by Lee Child

Answer: Arm Wrestling

Paulie is a large steroid-enhanced musclebound cretin who had been in the army before being sent to the stockade for attacking an officer. His violent behaviour is fuelled by his intake of steroids to maintain his physique. He takes an instant dislike to Reacher and tries to dominate him with this challenge.

From Quiz Lee Child's "Gone Tomorrow"

Answer: Browning

Springfield served alongside Sansom in the Delta Force and is now his right-hand man. Reacher and Browning work together (after a fashion) throughout the story. A very intelligent man, Springfield understands Reacher's hints and subtexts, and even drops a few hints of his own.

From Quiz Lee Child's 'Bad Luck and Trouble', Part One

Answer: Thomas Brant

Curtis Mauney is Thomas Brant's boss, the two of them being police. The other two names are one and the same man.

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