Persuader: (Jack Reacher 7)

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

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