But, boy, did the Jack Reacher series take off. Child has churned out best-selling novels nearly every year since the publication of the first Reacher book, Killing Floor, in 1997. (And recently ...

Netflix's hit thriller series, The Night Agent, came close to matching Reacher 's success in terms of acclaim and commercial returns. Like Reacher, it will also soon return with another installment.

In 2021, Armentrout released "A Shadow in the Ember," the first book in her "Flesh and Fire" series, a spin-off prequel for "Blood and Ash," which is set in the same universe.