One Shot - Hardcover

Child, Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593051831 ISBN 13: 9780593051832

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2005

Synopsis

A lone gunman unleashes pandemonium when he shoots into a crowd of people in a public plaza in Indiana. Five people are killed in cold blood, shot through the head. But he leaves a perfect trail of evidence behind him, and soon the local police chief tracks him down. After his arrest, the shooter's only words are, 'Get Jack Reacher for me.' What could possibly connect this psychopath and the wandering dropout ex army cop? Critics call Lee Child's thriller series 'addictive', so here is our annual, much-longed for, Reacher fix

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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

'Fast-moving dialogue and gripping action sequences...The excitement lasts from the first to the final page.' -- Evening Standard

'First-rate thriller with the imperturbable Reacher meting out his brand of justice to the villains.' -- Sunday Telegraph

'Hot, indomitable...pure, escapist gold.' -- New York Times

'Hugely exciting, and knowledgeable about weapons and technology...A powerful sense of right and wrong.' -- Literary Review

'One of the genre's finest practitioners.' -- Independent

'Reacher sees justice done while kicking commendable amounts of ass...Intricate plotting makes for an engrossing read.' -- Arena - Summer reads

'fast-moving dialogue and gripping action sequences...the excitement lasts from the first to the final page' -- Evening Standard, April 11 2005

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0593051831
• ISBN 13: 9780593051832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368