One Shot (Jack Reacher, 9) - Hardcover

Child, Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385336683 ISBN 13: 9780385336680

Publisher: Delacorte Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Ex- military investigator Jack Reacher is called in by James Barr, the man accused of a lethal sniper attack on a heartland city that leaves five people dead, and teams up with a young defense attorney to find an unseen enemy who is manipulating events behind the scenes. 150,000 first printing.

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Review:

Lee Child's Jack Reacher thrillers always have remarkably inventive setups, and One Shot is true to form. A sniper, Barr, kills five people with six shots and leaves a clear trail of evidence; arrested, he asks for Reacher. When Reacher was a military policeman, politics stopped him pursuing Barr--he cannot understand why Barr would ask for him and Barr has been beaten in jail until he cannot remember himself. Yet, for Reacher, the loner who looks at things differently from civilians, the story does not add up--Barr should not have got himself caught, should not even have fired from where he did.

Child is a master of the perverse solution to the set of questions no-one ever asked in quite that way before, and the macho yet sensitive Reacher is one of the more interesting series characters in thrillers. One Shot is a smart set of puzzles which strings the reader along to false conclusions and a sense of real danger. It also, like its hero, has a heart. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"Jack Reacher is irresistible" (Observer)

"Hot, indomitable... knockout" (New York Times)

"The thing about Lee Child's books is that you can't put the damn things down" (Independent on Sunday)

"Child's strengths are fast-moving dialogue and gripping action sequences ... The excitement lasts from the first to the final page" (Evening Standard)

"The Jack Reacher series of thrillers...are all hugely exciting, and knowledgeable about weapons and technology. They exude a powerful sense of right and wrong ... We've seen him as a right of wrongs and always as God's gift to women" (Literary Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0385336683
• ISBN 13: 9780385336680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376