- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Press (May 13 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385336667
- ISBN-13: 978-0385336666
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #418,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jack Reacher, the taciturn ex-MP whose adventures in Lee Child's six previous solidly plotted, expertly paced thrillers have won a devoted fan base, returns in this explosive tale of an undercover operation set up by the FBI to rescue an agent investigating Zachary Beck, a reclusive tycoon believed to be a kingpin in the drug trade. The novel begins with a bang as Reacher rescues Beck's son from a staged kidnapping in order to get close to his father--and trace the connection between Beck and Quinn, a former army intelligence officer who tried to sell blueprints of a secret weapon to Iraq but was murdered before he could pull it off. Or so Reacher thinks, until he spots Quinn in the crowd at a concert in Boston. As usual, Child ratchets up the tension and keeps the reader in suspense until the last page, although his enigmatic hero hardly ever seems to break a sweat. In the tough guy tradition, Reacher and his creator are overdue for a breakout, and this muscular, well-written mystery might be the one. --Jane Adams
From Publishers Weekly
The promo copy on the ARC of Child's new thriller proclaims, "We dare to make this claim: Lee Child is the best thriller writer you're probably not reading-yet." Hopefully the "six-figure" marketing campaign promised by Child's new publisher will make that statement obsolete, because readers will be hard-pressed to find a more engaging thriller this spring season. Child is a master of storytelling skills, not least the plot twist, and the opening chapter of this novel spins a doozy, as a high-octane, extremely violent action sequence sees Child hero Jack Reacher rescue a young man, 20-year-old Richard Beck, from an attempted kidnapping before the rug is pulled out from under the reader with the chapter's last line. The rest of the novel centers on the Beck family's isolated, heavily guarded estate on the Maine coast where Reacher takes Richard. Richard's father is suspected by Feds of being a major drug dealer and the kidnapper of another Fed, and also seems to have ties to a fiend who killed Reacher's lady 10 years before, someone Reacher thought he'd killed in turn, in a vengeance slaying. Tension runs high, then extremely high, as Reacher, ingratiating himself with the dealer and hired on as a bodyguard, pokes around the estate, looking for the kidnapped Fed and evading and/or disposing of in-house bad guys as they begin to suspect he's not who he seems. But then little in Child's novels is as it at first seems, and numerous further plot twists spark the story line. What makes the novel really zing, though, is Reacher's narration-a unique mix of the brainy and the brutal, of strategic thinking and explosive action, moral rumination and ruthless force, marking him as one of the most memorable heroes in contemporary thrillerdom. Any thriller fan who has yet to read Lee Child should start now.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Jack Reacher as a Drifter Version of James Bond,
By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 112,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (#1 HALL OF FAME)
This review is from: Persuader (Jack Reacher, No. 7) (Mass Market Paperback)
I liked Persuader best of the Jack Reacher novels I have read so far. The plot is more deliciously complicated with little twists, there's a better use for all of that gun lore, high tech makes brief appearances and the bad guys are more complex than usual. In addition, Mr. Child provides us with a nice back story that develops along with the primary story line.This story revolves around serendipity. There's a chance meeting where Reacher sees a man who should be dead . . . and Reacher wants him dead. When approached by DEA agents for an illegal penetration of a suspect's operations, Reacher wants in to finish the job he started ten years earlier. The story revels in the sort of twisted villains, monster guards, pitched battles, and intrigue that make the earliest James Bond books so appealing. As a result, you get gore with a cutting edge of sadism. I don't recall a book about a different type of hero that's so much like Bond in the action. Perhaps You Only Live Twice.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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My first Reacher Novel, but not Last!,
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This review is from: Persuader (Hardcover)
I found this book in a hotel reading library and decided to give it a try, and all I can say is WOW! If you like adreniline thrill rides this is the book for you! Jack Reacher Is a great Character, A man's man. Has the same attraction for me as Dirk Pitt of Cussler fame (though different in many ways). Now I have to goa back read the rest of the series?
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Reacher aspires to exocise old demons,
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This review is from: Persuader (Jack Reacher, No. 7) (Mass Market Paperback)
Sauntering around the streets of Boston, ex-Army M.P. Jack Reacher inadvertantly encounters a ghost from his past. Francis Xavier Quinn, ex-Army lieutenant colonel based in intelligence had been caught treasonously selling military secrets to Syria in a Reacher orchestrated investigation. The arrest went sour, exacting a huge emotional toll on Reacher. An enraged Reacher mistakenly thought that he had dispatched Quinn with two gunshots to the head causing him to fall off a cliff into the Pacific. This chance meeting proved that to be incorrect.Reacher calling in a favor from an old Army buddy, caused the raising of red flags when he asked for a license plate They staged a kidnapping of Beck's son Richard in which Reacher Having read all of Child's Jack Reacher series of thrillers, it's safe to say that I'm a huge fan of this talented author. Persuader definitely ranks among his best.
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