History Monster / JackReacher

* ''Worth Dying For'': Jacob Duncan, [[SiblingsInCrime along with his brothers Jonas and Jasper]], [[IOwnThisTown run a rural Nebraska farmer town]] like tinpot dictators. The Duncans run a trucking business whose service they force upon every family in town. Anyone who refuses or disagrees with them would find themselves beaten up and their properties ruined by a gang of ex-college football players on the Duncans' payroll. The Duncans use this business to smuggle children and others from Asia to the heartland United States and elsewhere for [[HumanTrafficking sex trafficking]]; they are all [[WouldHurtAChild pedophiles]] who murder every child they've grown bored with and make a shrine and photographic memento of every corpse--about 60 in all, 2 or 3 every year. Even Reacher, a former MP who's seen all kinds of corpses himself, explicitly admits he regrets having taken a look at the barn where the Duncans hold these shrines.

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* ''Series/{{Reacher}}'': [[AdaptationalVillainy KJ Kliner]] is the son of mogul Kliner in the town of Margrave. The true head of the counterfeiting operation, KJ is a [[SpoiledBrat sadistic brat]] who loves to hurt others and [[YouKilledMyFather murders Joe Reacher]] to guard the operation. Loving to torture and hurt others, KJ murders everyone else in his way, including a [[CopKiller police officer]] and his pregnant wife. One unfortunate man, Paul Hubble, is forced to work with the counterfeiters after KJ had a man crucified and castrated in front of him with promises Hubble would see his wife and children killed. [[{{Patricide}} Murdering his own father]] in a painful manner when he deems him a loose end, KJ attempts to kill Reacher and all his allies for the sport of it.

->''He put the flat of his hand on her belly. She pulled away, backward, hard against the pole she was tied to. He shuffled forward half a step. "Oh man, this is unbelievable. You’re going to die with another man’s child inside you."''

->''"Can’t allow that," he said. "Wouldn’t be right. We’ll have to abort it first. I should have told Perez to find a coat hanger. But I didn't. So we’ll find something else instead. There's got to be something here. This is a farm after all."''

* ''Worth Dying For'': Jacob Duncan [[IOwnThisTown runs a rural Nebraska farmer town]] like a tinpot dictator, [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether along with]] his brothers Jonas and Jasper and his adopted son [[DomesticAbuser Seth]]. Jacob and his family run a trucking business whose service they force upon every family in town. Anyone who refuses or disagrees with them would find themselves beaten up and their properties ruined by a gang of ex-college football players on the Duncans' payroll. Jacob and his family use this business to smuggle children and others from Asia to the heartland United States and elsewhere for [[HumanTrafficking sex trafficking]]; they are all [[WouldHurtAChild pedophiles]] who murder every child they've grown bored with and make a shrine and photographic memento of every corpse—about 60 in all, 2 or 3 every year. Even Reacher, a former MP who's seen all kinds of corpses himself, explicitly admits he regrets having taken a look at the barn where the Jacob and his family hold these shrines.

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->''He put the flat of his hand on her belly. She pulled away, backward, hard against the pole she was tied to. He shuffled forward half a step. "Oh man, this is unbelievable. You’re going to die with another man’s child inside you."''

->''"Can’t allow that," he said. "Wouldn’t be right. We’ll have to abort it first. I should have told Perez to find a coat hanger. But I didn't. So we’ll find something else instead. There's got to be something here. This is a farm after all."''
-->--'''Edward Lane''', to his wife Kate, ''The Hard Way''

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* ''Worth Dying For'': Jacob Duncan [[IOwnThisTown runs a rural Nebraska farmer town]] like a tinpot dictator, [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether along with]] his brothers Jonas and Jasper and his adopted son [[DomesticAbuser Seth]]. Jacob and his family run a trucking business whose service they force upon every family in town. Anyone who refuses or disagrees with them would find themselves beaten up and their properties ruined by a gang of ex-college football players on the Duncans' payroll. Jacob and his family use this business to smuggle children and others from Asia to the heartland United States and elsewhere for [[HumanTrafficking sex trafficking]]; they are all [[WouldHurtAChild pedophiles]] who murder every child they've grown bored with and make a shrine and photographic memento of every corpse--about 60 in all, 2 or 3 every year. Even Reacher, a former MP who's seen all kinds of corpses himself, explicitly admits he regrets having taken a look at the barn where the Jacob and his family hold these shrines.

** ''Film/JackReacher'': [[RuthlessForeignGangsters The Zec]] is a former Gulag inmate turned crime lord defined by his belief that one will do anything to survive. To cover up his corrupt dealings, the Zec has [[SerialKillingsSpecificTarget a target assassinated with four other innocent people]], [[FrameUp framing]] an innocent former marine to get him the death penalty. Trying to have Reacher and the patsy's attorney murdered, [[BadBoss the Zec]] shows his true brutality by attempting to force [[YouHaveFailedMe failed]] henchmen to bite off their own fingers. When one man fails, the Zec reveals this is wholly routine and nobody ever passes, before having him shot.

* ''[[Film/JackReacherNeverGoBack Never Go Back]]'': [[TheHeavy The Hunter]] is a smug, egotistical [[SociopathicSoldier former soldier]]-turned-[[PsychoForHire hitman]] under the employ of [[BigBad General Harkness]]. The Hunter kicks off the plot by killing two of Major Susan Turner's soldiers, and then planting the evidence that gets Turner falsely thrown in jail for espionage. When Jack Reacher and Turner's lawyer Moorcroft start looking into the conspiracy, the Hunter tortures and kills Moorcroft, pinning this crime on Reacher. Relentless in his pursuit of Reacher and Turner, the Hunter callously murders anyone that comes into his path, including two policemen, the foster parents of Samantha Dutton (Reacher's supposed daughter), and even his own allies and subordinates. He goes on to state that killing Reacher "won't be enough", and says that he's going to kill Samantha personally, just to hurt Reacher. Even after Harkness is arrested and the conspiracy is uncovered, the Hunter simply replies that he "doesn't give a shit" and continues to hunt for Sam, eventually catching her and attempting to force Reacher to surrender by threatening to throw her off a building. A cold-blooded killer motivated solely by [[ItsAllAboutMe feeding his own ego]], the Hunter is one of Reacher's most personal adversaries.

-->--'''The real BigBad''' of ''The Hard Way'', to his wife

Literature/JackReacher has dealt with villains all his life. However, the following are truly [[CompleteMonster the worst of the worst]].\\

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* ''The Hard Way'': [[AxCrazy Edward Lane]] is the psychotic head of an illegal mercenary operation, and the true BigBad of the story. An egotistical ControlFreak of the highest order, Lane had his first wife [[IfICantHaveYou murdered when she attempted to divorce him]], faking a kidnapping to throw suspicion off of himself. He ties up loose ends by abandoning two of his men to the mercy of a group of insurgents known to mutilate their prisoners, completely indifferent to the years of torture they are forced to endure. Upon remarrying, Lane keeps his new wife Kate in line by threatening to [[WouldHurtAChild rape her five-year-old daughter with a potato peeler]], a promise he attempts to make good on at the story's climax. Tying up Kate, his step-daughter, his wife's paramour Taylor, Taylor's brother Jackson, and Reacher's LoveInterest Pauling to slowly torture each of them to death, Lane notices that Kate is pregnant with Taylor's baby, and immediately attempts a manual abortion, saying it "wouldn't be right" for her to die with someone else's child inside of her. Lane ultimately attempts to lure Reacher out of hiding by holding Jackson at gunpoint, intending to shoot him in the legs and make Pauling lick up the man's blood "like a dog" if Reacher doesn't surrender.

* ''Film/JackReacherNeverGoBack'': [[TheHeavy The Hunter]] is a smug, egotistical [[SociopathicSoldier former soldier]]-turned-[[PsychoForHire hitman]] under the employ of [[BigBad General Harkness]]. The Hunter kicks off the plot by killing two of Major Susan Turner's soldiers, and then planting the evidence that gets Turner falsely thrown in jail for espionage. When Jack Reacher and Turner's lawyer Moorcroft start looking into the conspiracy, the Hunter tortures and kills Moorcroft, pinning this crime on Reacher. Relentless in his pursuit of Reacher and Turner, the Hunter callously murders anyone that comes into his path, including two policemen, the foster parents of Samantha Dutton (Reacher's supposed daughter), and even his own allies and subordinates. He goes on to state that killing Reacher "won't be enough", and says that he's going to kill Samantha personally, just to hurt Reacher. Even after Harkness is arrested and the conspiracy is uncovered, the Hunter simply replies that he "doesn't give a shit" and continues to hunt for Sam, eventually catching her and attempting to force Reacher to surrender by threatening to throw her off a building. A cold-blooded killer motivated solely by [[ItsAllAboutMe feeding his own ego]], the Hunter is one of Reacher's most personal adversaries.

* ''Worth Dying For'': Jacob Duncan runs a rural Nebraska farmer town like a tinpot dictator, [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether along with]] his [[SiblingsInCrime brothers Jonas and Jasper]] and his [[OverlordJr son Seth]] (who also [[DomesticAbuser beats his wife]]). They run a trucking business whose service they force upon every family in town. Anyone who refuses or disagrees with them would find themselves beaten up and their properties ruined by a gang of ex-college football players on the Duncans’ payroll. The Duncans use this business to smuggle children and others from Asia to the heartland United States (and elsewhere) for sex trafficking. All of them are [[WouldHurtAChild pedophiles]] who murder every child they've grown bored with and make a shrine and photographic memento of every corpse (there are about 60 in all, 2 or 3 every year). Even Reacher, a former MP who's seen all kinds of corpses himself, explicitly admits he regrets having taken a look at the barn where the Duncans hold these shrines.

'''SPOILER WARNING''': The biggest spoilers are spoiler-tagged, but pretty much any entry here is a spoiler in some regard. Be careful before reading.

* ''Tripwire'': [[spoiler:The man calling himself]] Victor Truman [[HookHand "Hook"]] Hobie is a man defined by his LackOfEmpathy. [[spoiler:Starting off as Carl Allen]], a [[SociopathicSoldier soldier]] in the jungles of Vietnam, his reign of terror began with him killing a commanding officer, and then [[spoiler:stealing the real Victor Hobie's identity, framing the now-deceased real Hobie for murder when his escape from an infirmary cost the life of an orderly]]. Now a cruel LoanShark in New York City, Hobie takes steps to ensure his secret remains hidden, having his men kill a private investigator hired to look for him and personally torturing the man's secretary to death. Having one of his own men killed when he [[YouHaveFailedMe fails to kill Jack Reacher and Jodie Garber]], Hobie likes to play a sadistic game with his victims where he tells them to pick a number between one and ten; unbeknownst to them, this is how long he'll spend [[CruelAndUnusualDeath torturing them to death]]. He plays this game with two [[CopKiller cops]], and intends to kill his debtor Chester Stone, Chester's wife, and Jodie Garber in a similar manner before killing Reacher and [[spoiler:stealing his identity as well]]. A cowardly sociopath who believes himself to be "the toughest man alive", Hobie set the standard for ''Jack Reacher'' villains.

* ''Worth Dying For'': Jacob Duncan runs a rural Nebraska farmer town like a tinpot dictator, [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether along with]] his [[SiblingsInCrime brothers Jonas and Jasper]] and his [[OverlordJr son Seth]] (who also [[DomesticAbuser beats his wife]]). They run a trucking business whose service they force upon every family in town. Anyone who refuses or disagrees with them would find themselves beaten up and their properties ruined by a gang of ex-college football players on the Duncans’ payroll. The Duncans use this business to smuggle [[spoiler: children and others from Asia to the heartland United States (and elsewhere) for sex trafficking. All of them are [[WouldHurtAChild pedophiles]] who murder every child they've grown bored with and make a shrine and photographic memento of every corpse (there are about 60 in all, 2 or 3 every year). Even Reacher, a former MP who's seen all kinds of corpses himself, explicitly admits he regrets having taken a look at the barn where the Duncans hold these shrines.]]
* ''Make Me'': [[NoNameGiven The man with the jeans and the hair]] lures suicidal people to the town of Mother's Rest, by offering them an illegal assisted suicide service which he advertises on the Deep Web. On the website he guarantees his client a completely painless death. [[spoiler:However, once the clients are there, he and his goons capture them, and then [[SnuffFilm murder them in front of the camera]]. It's a pay-per-view operation, and with extra charge customers are allowed to write their own script. Anyone snooping in their business would be murdered, either by themselves or by a gang of assassins on their payroll, who also go on to murder the snoopers' families to be certain nothing leaks. It is stated that he and his gang are responsible for 209 snuff videos, with titles such as ''Starved to Death'', ''Pregnant and Bayoneted'', ''Gut Shot'', and ''Thin Man All Ribs Broken First''. Categories included "Male victim, female victim, couples, young, old, black, white, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cutting, stabbing, beating, power tools, extreme insertion, medical experiment, electricity, drowning, and shooting]]."]]
* ''Night School'': "The American", [[spoiler:real name Horace Wiley]], is a cunning and arrogant thief who makes a living off of stealing weapons and [[ArmsDealer selling them on the black market]]. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] strangling a prostitute to death, the American is the subject of a manhunt headed by Jack Reacher, and when one of his associates offers to turn him over to the police, the American coldly beats the man to death. As the hunt for him continues, the American bombs a hotel to distract the police, and is revealed to have stolen [[spoiler:ten nuclear bombs, which he plans to sell to a group of terrorists who wish to use them to annihilate ten cities across the world, which, by Reacher's calculations, would make the American responsible for over ten million deaths. Willing to see the whole world nuked to oblivion]] just to satisfy his bottomless {{greed}}, the American proves to [[ItsAllAboutMe only care about himself]], seeing everyone else as nothing more than tools for his own pleasure or profit.

* ''Tripwire'': [[spoiler:The man calling himself]] Victor Truman [[HookHand "Hook"]] Hobie is a man defined by his LackOfEmpathy. [[spoiler:Starting off as Carl Allen]], a [[SociopathicSoldier soldier]] in the jungles of Vietnam, his reign of terror began with him killing a commanding officer, and then [[spoiler:stealing the real Victor Hobie's identity, framing the now-deceased real Hobie for murder when his escape from an infirmary cost the life of an orderly]]. Now a cruel LoanShark in New York City, Hobie takes steps to ensure his secret remains hidden, having his men kill a private investigator hired to look for him and personally torturing the man's secretary to death. Having one of his own men killed when he [[YouHaveFailedMe fails to kill Jack Reacher and Jodie Garber]], Hobie likes to play a sadistic game with his victims where he tells them to pick a number between one and ten; unbeknownst to them, this is how long he'll spend [[CruelAndUnusualDeath torturing them to death]]. He plays this game with two [[CopKiller cops]], and intends to kill his debtor Chester Stone, Chester's wife, and Jodie Garber in a similar manner before killing Reacher and [[spoiler:stealing his identity as well]]. A cowardly [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who believes himself to be "the toughest man alive", Hobie set the standard for ''Jack Reacher'' villains.

* ''Worth Dying For'': Jacob Duncan runs a rural Nebraska farmer town like a tinpot dictator straight out of {{Ruritania}}, [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether along with]] his [[SiblingsInCrime brothers Jonas and Jasper]] and his [[OverlordJr son Seth]] (who also [[DomesticAbuser beats his wife]]). They run a trucking business whose service they force upon every family in town. Anyone who refuses or disagrees with them would find themselves beaten up and their properties ruined by a gang of ex-college football players on the Duncans’ payroll. The Duncans use this business to smuggle [[spoiler: children and others from Asia to the heartland United States (and elsewhere) for sex trafficking. All of them are [[WouldHurtAChild pedophiles]] who murder every child they've grown bored with and make a shrine and photographic memento of every corpse (there are about 60 in all, 2 or 3 every year). Even Reacher, a former MP who's seen all kinds of corpses himself, explicitly admits he regrets having taken a look at the barn where the Duncans hold these shrines.]]

* ''The Hard Way'': [[spoiler: Edward Lane is the psychotic, ControlFreak head of an [[PrivateMilitaryContractors illegal mercenary operation]]]], and the real BigBad of the story. In the past, he [[DomesticAbuser murdered his first wife]] to keep her from divorcing him (and demanding alimony), [[FrameUp framed one of his own soldiers for it]], used his mercenary operation to rob a country's national bank, and betrayed two soldiers of his own to a gang of African militias known to mutilate their prisoners. Also, he promised to use a potato peeler to [[GroinAttack rupture the hymen]] of his [[WouldHurtAChild then-five-year-old daughter]] if he so much as thinks his second wife, [[spoiler:Kate]], is being unfaithful. In the present, [[spoiler: Kate]], having been informed about what happened in the past by a relative of the betrayed soldier, arranges [[spoiler: a kidnapping with her paramour Taylor]], a TokenGoodTeammate in Lane's mercenary op, with the understanding that if she tries to legally divorce [[spoiler:Lane, Lane]] will just murder her. At the climax of the story, he rounds up [[spoiler: Kate]], his daughter [[spoiler: Jade, Taylor, and Taylor's]] brother to be executed, but when he notices [[spoiler: Kate is now pregnant with Taylor's baby]], he stops from killing her right away and instead ties her up on a barn table to manually abort her. Finally, when Reacher kills one of his goons, the goon is carrying a potato peeler.

* ''The Visitor'' [[note]]''Running Blind'' [[MarketBasedTitle in the US]][[/note]]: The killer, a cold-blooded DiabolicalMastermind, turns out to be [[spoiler:[[KillerCop FBI Profiler]] Julia Lamarr, who uses her position to cover up her crimes]]. The killer [[SerialKiller murders at least four women]] (and is in the process of murdering another when stopped by Reacher) by [[CruelAndUnusualDeath hypnotizing them to swallow their own tongues]], leaving them to suffocate slowly to death and leaving no evidence. One victim, as well as [[SerialKillingsSpecificTarget the true target]], was [[spoiler: Lamarr’s stepsister, who was chosen to [[{{greed}} receive Julia’s father’s inheritance]], even though she was going to share it with Lamarr, who [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares about herself]] and revels in her intelligence]] throughout the process.
* ''Without Fail'': Brothers [[KillerCop Richard and Peter Wilson]] plan to assassinate Vice-President-elect Brook Armstrong. They [[{{Fingore}} cut off the left thumb of a bystander]], then threaten to do the same to the [[GroinAttack ovaries]] of the bystander's granddaughters if he reports them. They kidnap the wife of a Secret Service officer to force him to plant a message. Just to taunt, they kill two innocent people named B. Armstrong as a taunt. Finally, they [[CopKiller kill two more Secret Service agents]] when trying to shoot Armstrong , and thereaten to rape Reacher's partner. The [[FreudianExcuse supposed motivation]] is that Armstrong was present when his father (who is already dead anyway) beat them up thirty years ago. However, the brothers were the instigators, as they vandalized Armstrong's father's property and threatened to rape his wife. In fact, Armstrong was trying to calm his father down at the time. But, since the brothers were already street bullies at the time, [[NeverMyFault they blamed him for his mere presence]]. {{Narcissist}}s to a fault, the Wilson brothers were willing to harm civilians who had nothing to do with their situation.

* ''Make Me'': [[NoNameGiven The man with the jeans and the hair]] lures suicidal people to the town of Mother's Rest, by offering them an illegal assisted suicide service which he advertises on the Deep Web. On the website he guarantees his client a completely painless death. [[spoiler:However, once the clients are there, he and his goons capture them, and then [[SnuffFilm murder them in front of the camera]]. It's a pay-per-view operation, and with extra charge customers are allowed to write their own script. Anyone snooping in their business would be murdered, either by themselves or by a gang of assassins on their payroll, who also go on to murder the snoopers' families to be certain nothing leaks. It is stated that he and his gang are responsible for 209 snuff videos, with titles such as ''Starved to Death'', ''Pregnant and Bayoneted'', ''Gut Shot'', and ''Thin Man All Ribs Broken First''. Categories included "Male victim, female victim, couples, young, old, black, white, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cutting, stabbing, beating, power tools, extreme insertion, medical experiment, electricity, drowning, and shooting]]."]]

* ''Tripwire'': [[spoiler:The man calling himself]] Victor Truman [[HookHand "Hook"]] Hobie is a cruel loan shark defined by his LackOfEmpathy and boundless brutality. [[spoiler:Starting off as Carl Allen]], a lowly [[SociopathicSoldier foot soldier]] in the jungles of Vietnam, his reign of terror began with him killing a commanding officer on the battlefield. After his arrest for this murder, he was transported by a helicopter piloted by the [[spoiler:real Victor Hobie; this helicopter was shot down, and Allen was the only survivor, sustaining brutal scars and losing his arm. He then took the real Hobie's dog tags, and passed himself off as the dead man to medics]]. During his escape from the infirmary, he killed an orderly, causing [[spoiler:the real Hobie to be posthumously branded a traitor, a deserter, and a murderer.]] Returning to the States, [[spoiler:Allen took Hobie's identity for his own]], and made a name for himself as a cold-blooded LoanShark in New York City. When his secret is threatened to be exposed, Hobie takes steps to ensure his identity remains hidden. He has his men kill the private investigator hired to look for him, and then personally tortures the man's secretary to death. After one of his men fails to kill Reacher and Jodie Garber, Hobie orders him killed, and then keeps his [[CreepySouvenir severed hand as a trophy]]. Hobie is especially notable for his {{sadis|t}}m, and often plays a game with his victims where he tells them to pick a number between one and ten; unbeknownst to them, this number is how many hours Hobie will spend [[CruelAndUnusualDeath torturing them to death]]. He plays this game with two investigating detectives, and intends to kill his debtor Chester Stone, Chester's wife Marilyn, and Jodie Garber in a similar manner before killing Reacher and [[spoiler:stealing his identity as well]]. A cowardly sociopath who believes himself to be "the toughest man alive", Hook Hobie stands out for his unhinged inhumanity.

* ''The Hard Way'': [[spoiler: Edward Lane is the psychotic, ControlFreak head of an [[PrivateMilitaryContractors illegal mercenary operation]]]], and the real Big Bad of the story. In the past, he [[DomesticAbuser murdered his first wife]] to keep her from divorcing him (and demanding alimony), [[FrameUp framed one of his own soldiers for it]], used his mercenary operation to rob a country's national bank, and betrayed two soldiers of his own to a gang of African militias known to mutilate their prisoners. Also, he promised to use a potato peeler to [[GroinAttack rupture the hymen]] of his [[WouldHurtAChild then-five-year-old daughter]] if he so much as thinks his second wife, [[spoiler:Kate]], is being unfaithful. In the present, [[spoiler: Kate]], having been informed about what happened in the past by a relative of the betrayed soldier, arranges [[spoiler: a kidnapping with her paramour Taylor]], a TokenGoodTeammate in Lane's mercenary op, with the understanding that if she tries to legally divorce [[spoiler:Lane, Lane]] will just murder her. At the climax of the story, he rounds up [[spoiler: Kate]], his daughter [[spoiler: Jade, Taylor, and Taylor's]] brother to be executed, but when he notices [[spoiler: Kate is now pregnant with Taylor's baby]], he stops from killing her right away and instead ties her up on a barn table to manually abort her. Finally, when Reacher kills one of his goons, the goon is carrying a potato peeler.

* ''Without Fail'':

Literature/JackReacher has dealt with villains all his life. However, the following are truly [[CompleteMonster the worst of the worst]].

* ''Make Me'': [[NoNameGiven The man with the jeans and the hair]] lures suicidal people to the town of Mother's Rest, by offering them an illegal assisted suicide service which he advertises on the Deep Web. On the website he guarantees his client a completely painless death. [[spoiler:However, once the clients are there, he and his goons capture them, and then [[SnuffFilm murder them in front of the camera]]. It's a pay-per-view operation, and with extra charge customers are allowed to write their own script. Anyone snooping in their business would be murdered, either by themselves or by a gang of assassins on their payroll, who also go on to murder the snoopers' families to be certain nothing leaks. It is stated that he and his gang are responsible for 209 snuff videos, with titles such as ''Starved to Death'', ''Pregnant and Bayoneted'', ''Gut Shot'', and ''Thin Man All Ribs Broken First''. Categories included "Male victim, female victim, couples, young, old, black, white, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cutting, stabbing, beating, power tools, extreme insertion, medical experiment, electricity, drowning, and shooting]]."]]

Literature/JackReacher deals with villains all his life. However, the following are truly [[CompleteMonster the worst of the worst]].

Literature/JackReacher has faced numerous bad guys throughout his career. However, the following are truly [[CompleteMonster the worst of the worst]].

->''He put the flat of his hand on her belly. She pulled away, backward, hard against the pole she was tied to. He shuffled forward half a step. “Oh man, this is unbelievable. You’re going to die with another man’s child inside you."''

->''"Can’t allow that," he said. “Wouldn’t be right. We’ll have to abort it first. I should have told Perez to find a coat hanger. But I didn’t. So we’ll find something else instead. There’s got to be something here. This is a farm after all."''
-->--''The Hard Way''