Persuader: 7 (Jack Reacher) - Softcover

Child, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593046919 ISBN 13: 9780593046913

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2003

Synopsis

Never forgive, never forget. That's Jack Reacher's standard operating procedure. And Francis Xavier Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met. he had done truly unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know he was dead. Until the day he saw him alive and well.

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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

"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

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593046919
• ISBN 13: 9780593046913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400