Persuader: A Jack Reacher Novel: 7 - Softcover

Child, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440245982 ISBN 13: 9780440245988

Publisher: Dell, 2009

Synopsis

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

Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs--and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion.

Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord's waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence--and confront some unfinished business from his own past.

Praise for Persuader

"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

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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:

"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: Dell
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0440245982
• ISBN 13: 9780440245988
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 496