Tom Selleck's Jesse Stone and Jack Reacher have been compared to one another, but there's one line that the former would never cross. Before the arrival of Blue Bloods, the Jesse Stone TV movies were keeping Selleck busy. He made nine entries between 2005 and 2015, though with Blue Bloods ending there is renewed chatter about Jesse Stone 10. On the surface, Stone and Jack Reacher don't appear to share much in common - but appearances can be deceiving.

Reacher is a hulking, often monosyllabic brute who roams America and often gets into trouble, while Stone is a 60-year-old, alcoholic police chief in a small Massachusetts town that attracts an awful lot of crime. One major similarity is that both men want to see justice done - and they'll bend the rules to see that happen. Reacher is typically more direct in this regard (including the book where he bearhugs a man...