Persuader (Jack Reacher) - Hardcover

Child, Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385336667 ISBN 13: 9780385336666

Publisher: Delacorte Pr, 2003

Synopsis

Jack Reacher.

The ultimate loner.

An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place...without family...without possessions...without commitments.

And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once...not ever.

But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business.

Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it...justice.

About this title

Review:

Breakneck in its pace, uncompromising in its narrative ruthlessness, Persuader is typical of Lee Child's Jack Reacher adventures. After a first chapter that misdirects the reader quite staggeringly, ex-army freelance adventurer Reacher is apparently on the run. As always with Child and Reacher, what we see at first is only a small part of the complex plotting lying underneath. Reacher has his own reasons for taking on this case, reasons that are very personal and go back a decade. Being Reacher, tough with a heart of gold, his emotions--his liking for a drug dealer's wife and son, his more than professional interest in the DEA officer investigating them, his dislike of steroid-crazed thug Paulie--soon complicate his objectives. Childs is endlessly reliable on gadgets--the miniaturised e-mail senders, the big guns--and on action sequences--various fights and a swim in a riptide; he also makes us believe in complex emotions and deeper feelings than a love of violence. This is not one of the best of the Reacher books--it has too many flashbacks and a shadowy villain--but like all of them it is an action thriller for intelligent readers. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"Reacher is a modern-day Shane.... [and Lee Child] is known as the master of the plot twist."--Daily News (NY)
The novels of Lee Child are:
"Spectacular." --Seattle Times
"Terrific...swift and brutal." --The New York Times
"What a page-turner should be." --Michael Connelly
"Bang-on suspense." --Houston Chronicle
"The best-written, best-plotted, best in just about every way..." --Boston Globe

From the Hardcover edition.

-Reacher is a modern-day Shane.... [and Lee Child] is known as the master of the plot twist.---Daily News (NY)
The novels of Lee Child are:
-Spectacular.- --Seattle Times
-Terrific...swift and brutal.- --The New York Times
-What a page-turner should be.- --Michael Connelly
-Bang-on suspense.- --Houston Chronicle
-The best-written, best-plotted, best in just about every way...- --Boston Globe

From the Hardcover edition.

"Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights."--The Denver Post

"A page-turner . . . [Lee] Child's tale drives hard and fast."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Wickedly addictive . . . so fast-paced it makes the eyeballs spin."--Orlando Sentinel

"A story that will sweep you along as fast as some of the riptides Reacher survives."--St. Petersburg Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0385336667
• ISBN 13: 9780385336666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342