Persuader: (Jack Reacher 7) - Softcover

Child, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553813447 ISBN 13: 9780553813449

Publisher: Bantam, 2004

Synopsis

Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise, in his most explosive adventure yet.

Never forgive, never forget.

Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs - and rewrite his own agonizing past.

Never apologize. Never explain.

When Reacher witnesses a brutal kidnap attempt, he takes the law into his own hands. But a cop dies. Has Reacher lost his sense of right and wrong?

About this title

Product Description:

RO20080182. PERSUADER.. 2004. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 541 pages. 1ère de couverture illustrée en couleurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0553813447
• ISBN 13: 9780553813449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560