The guy he works for, a government man referred to as the Hard Man, is a professional friend, as is Shard, and old army buddy. Stoner is a man who likes the company of women. The reasons why only turn up at the end of the book – and even then there’s no guarantee that his conclusion is accurate. Initially he’s concerned only with finding out who’s responsible. The sisters’ world impacts into Stoner’s when he’s instructed to investigate a series of brutal murders, which appear to make no sense. Which brings us neatly to some of the women in these stories, the sisters. It should also be said that Stoner gets a lot more and much better sex than Jack Reacher… He starts off as a non-military killer – an infantryman out of uniform – learns how to be more than that in the fourth of the stories, Four Cornered. Stoner had to learn to be an investigator in the freelance world you can read all about it in the short stories which are prequels to the books. Reacher was a military investigator Stoner was a straight up infantry soldier, trained to do unto others with maximum efficiency and without hesitation.
Reacher’s worldly goods are restricted to a toothbrush and the clothes he wears, Stoner owns several properties, several vehicles, a lot of musical instruments and all the other things non-supermen accumulate to protect themselves from the essential pointlessness and unpleasantness of their lives. Reacher – a brilliant creation – is a superman, Stoner’s not even faintly super. Stoner is often compared to Jack Reacher. That ability and training does not go away when you change your clothes.
As in, someone trained to kill other people. His views about the civilian spook world are defined very much by an understanding that whether wearing a uniform or not, a soldier is always a soldier.
He’s very much a solo operator who works well with a team – provided he’s the leader of the team.
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