The decision to cast Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

Tom Cruise? Really? That’s the question that Lee Child, author of the popular Jack Reacher thriller novel series, has been fielding for the past year about the casting of Cruise in the lead role of “Jack Reacher,” a film adaptation of Child’s “One Shot” (2005), in which Reacher — an ex-military police officer who wanders the country righting wrongs — investigates five apparently random killings by a sniper. Directed and adapted for the screen b...