Reacher is many things. Ex-US Army. Tall. Large. Loner. Drifter. But he’s no grifter: he means what he says, even if sometimes he comes off as pedantic. But when he tells wealthy rug merchant Zachary Beck (Anthony Michael Hall) that wherever he, Reacher, goes, trouble seems to find him, he is just stating facts.

In a sedate university town of Maine, trouble once again finds our favourite former military cop, and Season 3 of the eight-part show called, simply, and aptly, ‘Reacher’, is off and away. This one is based on Lee Child’s seventh bestseller ‘Persuader’, developed for TV by Nick Santora, and written by Scott Sullivan. Good cops, bad guys, shoot-outs, car crashes, sudden kills, the staple elements of the best-selling author’s page-turners, all show up.

This time around, the chief bad guy, whom he has unfinished business with, is worse than anyone else Reacher has encountered. A baddie making our invincible hero break out in a sweat? Now that’s a differential. Plus, the baddie’s chief hood, who goes by the name of Paulie (Olivier Richters), towers over Reacher. That’s also never happened before: in every other adventure, Reacher has been the tallest and the heaviest guy around– when he hits ‘em, they stay hit.