"Reacher' has become a big hit for Prime Video, and part of that has to do with the writers' rules for their version of Jack Reacher. Showrunner Nick Santora spoke to The New York Times about respecting Lee Child's source novels and revealed that, in the three years "Reacher" has been on the air, he and his team have developed a set of guidelines to ensure they do justice to the book. "We had a list of dos and don'ts," Santora said. "Don't ever ask for cream and sugar in Reacher's coffee; he drinks black coffee. Don't ever have Reacher treat a woman as a second-class citizen because she might be smaller than he is — the truth is, everyone's smaller than he is."

Those are pretty much the same rules followed by the literary Reacher, who has now appeared in 29 novels and a book of short st

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