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Josephine Moutier Reacher was the mother of Jack and Joe Reacher and the wife of Stan Reacher.
History[]
Early life[]
Born in France, she was 30 years old when Reacher was born. Josephine met a Marine named Stan Reacher, who was posted in Korea and later married him in the Netherlands. When she was 13, she joined the French Resistance and under the alias "Beatrice" worked with Le Chemin de Fer Humain (the Human Railroad), saving 80 men. She garrotted a schoolmate, a boy who threatened to give her up to the Nazis, and would later receive the Médaille de la Résistance (the Resistance Medal) for her other acts of heroism. She became a widow in 1988 when Stan passed away and then succumbed to lung cancer in 1990.
Physical Appearance[]
Reacher described his mother as "gallic, feminine, obstinate," and "the most stubborn woman possible." He also branded her a fatalist as she had concealed her cancer from her children and had refused treatment for a one-year period before her death. However Reacher compares her favorably to his father: "My father hadn't killed the enemy at the age of thirteen. But my mother had. She had lived through desperate times and she had stepped up and done what was necessary." Reacher also has great respect for his mother: at her funeral he buried his Silver Star medal with her, and on learning of her role in World War II, states that he became the man he was because of her.
Appearances[]
- Josephine Reacher appears in the following novels of the Jack Reacher novel series:
Appearance in TV Series[]
Leslie Fray appears as a young Josephine Reacher in the first season of the Reacher Amazon Prime television series.