Persuader: (Jack Reacher 7) - Softcover

Child, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857500104 ISBN 13: 9780857500106

Publisher: Bantam, 2011

Synopsis

"Ballsy, dynamic and not for the faint-hearted." (Daily Mail)

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?

Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Persuader is seventh in the series.

About this title

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:

"Ballsy, dynamic and not for the faint-hearted" (Daily Mirror)

"The blend of dialogue, atmosphere, action and plot will grip readers from the first page and further cement Lee Child's reputation as a world-class thriller writer...This is everything a thriller should be" (Crimetime)

"One of the best writers in this genre...Reacher is in top form" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Scrupulously structured...A thrilling and reputable read" (Literary Review)

"The seventh novel in the best-selling Jack Reacher series. PERSUADER is another gripping thriller" (OK! Magazine)

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857500104
• ISBN 13: 9780857500106
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560