Jack Reacher takes an undercover assignment to investigate the disappearance of a federal agent from the home of a notorious drug dealer, but Reacher soon discovers that the dealer has ties to a man from Reacher's own past, one that Reacher supposedly killed. Book available.
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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
"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
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-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
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