The novel ends with an explosive climax, and as readers of the Reacher series will know, if you are going to adapt 61 Hours, you damn sure better follow it with…
The strongest and most captivating Jack Reacher stories are the ones where our favorite Right-Guy-In-The-Wrong-Place hero is racing a figurative clock that Lee Child has established in his plot, and 61 Hours has that gimmick built right into the title.
After the bus he’s riding on veers off the road in a snowstorm, Reacher finds himself aiding South Dakota law enforcement in protecting a woman set to testify against the head of a drug-running biker gang.
They need to keep this poor, innocent woman alive in blizzard conditions for — you guessed it — 61 hours, as forces both foreign and domestic move on the town with the intention of making sure she never gets to testify.