Hello! I'm looking for a new series similar to Jack Reacher. I like the lone wolf, tough guy aspect, as well as the fact that like me, Jack Reacher loves himself a good cup of coffee. I know this is a weird request, but are there any series like Reacher, with a hero/heroine/main character that loves coffee like Reacher does? I also enjoy that Reacher is a drifter, and goes to small towns and solves mysteries, and helps people.

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[–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)
  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    The Expanse comes to mind. Holden (one of the main protagonists) has a series-long trope of being a MASSIVE coffee enthusiast, which is interesting for a series set largely in zero-G

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Seriously, I thought this was going to be a joke post about the Expanse!

    Holden and Janeway were my first thoughts.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Travis McGee books by John D. MacDonald.

    https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-deep-blue-good-by-a-travis-mcgee-novel-john-d-macdonald/7212daeb550f71d9

    The Deep Blue Goodbye, with an intro by Lee Child.

    Trav lives on a houseboat he won in a poker game. He lives a care-free beach bum life in Ft. Lauderdale. Every once in a while, the cash reserves get low and Trav has to go out and find someone who has been robbed but can't go to the police.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I looked up who reacher is inspired by or based on and Travis McGee is one of the characters as well as Spenser and Sherlock Holmes

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    You might as well go back to the beginning.

    For actual literature try Dashiell Hammett. He was an authentic Pinkerton detective before turning to writing. His nameless detective, The Continental Op, appears in 'Red Harvest' and 'The Dain Curse' plus a number of short stories.

    Pulp heroes who had monthly adventures include The Shadow and Doc Savage. Doc was a 7 foot tall polymath with a secret gold mine in South america.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I read some of Jo Nesbo's thrillers and the protagonist drinks so much coffee that I got squirrelly just from reading it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Dirk Pitt Novels by Clive Cussler.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Detective pikachu.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Not the coffee thing but John Le Carre has a great series of books that are kind of the spy version of Reacher's army persona.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    This person asked especially for the coffee thing though.

    Why do you response with something that has nothing to with the coffee thing?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Why? Cos it's an open chat board and I can say whatever pops into my mind. Why do you have such a bee in your bonnet about my answer?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was just curious if there is a reason behind it besides brainfart drive-by.

    I see it often that a specific question is posed with a clear direction and people completely ignore the premise. The post gets filled with the same 7 answers over and over which all are missing the point or propose something that was explicitly stated in the op as already tried or excluded in another way.

    Reads to me often as: "Nice post but why isn't it about me and what I find interesting?"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Read past the title and you'll see OP listed other qualities they like in Reacher. It's not hard to imagine that they might appreciate a good suggestion based on those.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    What an odd question.

    Did you know that you can just add that a fictional character loves coffee to your head cannon, even if coffee is never mentioned once in the text? Nobody can stop you, and no one will know because it’s all fiction in your head.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    If you want to branch out but keep the coffee, the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. There are coffee jokes all through it. Also pretty much the best novels ever.

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