Imagined crossover · Forensics and profilers
What if Jack Reacher met Lincoln Rhyme?
The drifter and the criminalist. Two brilliant, stubborn minds who notice everything, one who thinks with evidence and one who thinks with instinct and experience.
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The pair
Jack ReacherFormer US Army military police major who drifts across AmericaBy Lee Child · Jack Reacher · first in Killing Floor
Lincoln RhymeQuadriplegic forensic scientist and former NYPD captainBy Jeffery Deaver · Lincoln Rhyme · first in The Bone Collector
Chemistry6/10
Friction8/10
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Where and when
New York
The 2000s
The story
- How they might meet
- A stranger who witnessed a deadly incident on the subway is the only lead in Rhyme’s latest case, and that stranger turns out to be Reacher.
- Why they would work
- Two brilliant, stubborn minds who notice everything, one who thinks with evidence and one who thinks with instinct and experience.
- What each brings
- Rhyme can read a crime scene from a speck of dust; Reacher can read people, threats and odds in a heartbeat, and act on them.
- Where they would clash
- Rhyme wants everything bagged and analysed; Reacher leaves no paperwork behind. Amelia Sachs would be caught in the middle.
Strengths compared
Jack Reacher Lincoln Rhyme
Our own ratings out of 10, for fun.
On the page together
The years in which each character's books were published.
Read your way in
Start with each character's first appearance.
- Killing FloorLee Child · 1997 · Jack Reacher's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- The Bone CollectorJeffery Deaver · 1997 · Lincoln Rhyme's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
