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Persuader (Jack Reacher #7)
by
Lee Child
Jack Reacher.
The ultimate loner.
An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments.
And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once…not ever.
But some unfinis...more
The ultimate loner.
An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments.
And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once…not ever.
But some unfinis...more
Mass Market Paperback, 496 pages
Published
May 19th 2009
by Dell
(first published January 1st 2003)
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This bad-ass walks around with an anaconda in his pants (apparently, that's a type of revolver but it's still pretty impressive)
He has an AOL device hidden in his shoe. He says nothing a lot. So does everyone else in this novel.
I'm not cut out for crime fiction. It bugs me.
He has an AOL device hidden in his shoe. He says nothing a lot. So does everyone else in this novel.
I'm not cut out for crime fiction. It bugs me.
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I am totally loving this series. (Although I think it must be best NOT to read them back to back because then the formula wears through.) This is a good one -- tense, claustrophobic, and non-stop action. Two quibbles -- the romance between Reacher and Duffy seems...unmotivated. Like the author says to himself, "And this is the place where I start the romance," and proceeded to have Reacher make out with the nearest available female character. Also, the last 20 percent of the novel...more
Picked this up at Amazon since it was free and had it on my digital bookshelf for awhile. Due to internet outage and unable to buy another book to read I decided to try this one out.
So for with about 60 percent of the book finished I have really enjoyed this fast moving story of a former military MP out to finish one of his failures have to go undercover in a drug gang which is being run by a group higher up. It does not matter that I have not read any of the other novels in this ser...more
So for with about 60 percent of the book finished I have really enjoyed this fast moving story of a former military MP out to finish one of his failures have to go undercover in a drug gang which is being run by a group higher up. It does not matter that I have not read any of the other novels in this ser...more
2 stars for the back story. 4 stars for the rest. Another fun tough guy Reacher story. Several scenes where he takes out bad guys, my favorite parts.
STORY BRIEF:
Reacher thought he killed bad guy Quinn ten years ago. He recently saw Quinn on the street. He learns that FBI agents are trying to catch Quinn and Beck who work together. They believe Beck is into drug smuggling. Reacher gets hired by Beck and is now undercover.
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STORY BRIEF:
Reacher thought he killed bad guy Quinn ten years ago. He recently saw Quinn on the street. He learns that FBI agents are trying to catch Quinn and Beck who work together. They believe Beck is into drug smuggling. Reacher gets hired by Beck and is now undercover.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
There is a gre...more
Five stars and I rarely give five.
This book takes off like a dragster and keeps accelerating. It's an action book in a category that over-uses the word "action." Lee Child delivers.
Plus, it's cleanly written, intelligent, complex/twisty and filled with fascinating details (operating characteristics of the H&K MP5, for example, or the jurisdictional boundaries between ATF and Justice Dept.).
In essence, it's a well-written, rich, fast ride. It runs about 350 pages.
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This book takes off like a dragster and keeps accelerating. It's an action book in a category that over-uses the word "action." Lee Child delivers.
Plus, it's cleanly written, intelligent, complex/twisty and filled with fascinating details (operating characteristics of the H&K MP5, for example, or the jurisdictional boundaries between ATF and Justice Dept.).
In essence, it's a well-written, rich, fast ride. It runs about 350 pages.
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Audible. I listened to the end, so I must give it at least two stars. Interested in getting a sense of genre fiction. REacher the hero. Mainly the lonely guy, can't see much else here. Lover. Loyal. A certain ethic about who it's okay to slaughter. A long painful history your'e supposed to care about. Can't even count all of the folks he kills in the book. The main evil guy he kills twice, pretty clever I suppose--once in the flashback but obviously not really and once in the present of th...more
Jack Reacher -- great leading man in great thriller!
It was tough not to like Jack Reacher when we tried our first Lee Child novel, "Killing Floor". Back in "Persuader", the seventh in the series, our amazing hero Reacher is his usual one-man army in tracking down relentlessly a man he thought he killed ten years ago as a military MP.
The book opens fast as Reacher gets involved in what looks like a kidnapping, kills a couple of bad guys, and then by ac...more
It was tough not to like Jack Reacher when we tried our first Lee Child novel, "Killing Floor". Back in "Persuader", the seventh in the series, our amazing hero Reacher is his usual one-man army in tracking down relentlessly a man he thought he killed ten years ago as a military MP.
The book opens fast as Reacher gets involved in what looks like a kidnapping, kills a couple of bad guys, and then by ac...more
Lee Child- Persuader (Dell Publishing 2004) 4.25 Stars
Reacher finds himself in danger again. This time he has his own personal reasons for getting involved, things that need finishing from his past. Working with a DEA team he is going undercover against a deadly group of ex-army thugs. The drug dealers are the problem of the DEA; Reacher wants their boss, the man calling all the shots. Its revenge he has in mind and nothing will stop him, he is the Persuader.
What an intro...more
Reacher finds himself in danger again. This time he has his own personal reasons for getting involved, things that need finishing from his past. Working with a DEA team he is going undercover against a deadly group of ex-army thugs. The drug dealers are the problem of the DEA; Reacher wants their boss, the man calling all the shots. Its revenge he has in mind and nothing will stop him, he is the Persuader.
What an intro...more
OK, Amazon gets me again. This was a Kindle freebie and now I'm totally hooked on Lee Child and his creation, Jack Reacher.
I've read four books now and they're all formulaic. Don't get me wrong -- this is not a criticism. It's a great formula and the variances are enough to keep it interesting. This is literature for men - it's like the TV show "24" without the ticking clock and the commercials.
Take the following:
- One 6-5 ex-Military Policeman who k...more
I've read four books now and they're all formulaic. Don't get me wrong -- this is not a criticism. It's a great formula and the variances are enough to keep it interesting. This is literature for men - it's like the TV show "24" without the ticking clock and the commercials.
Take the following:
- One 6-5 ex-Military Policeman who k...more
Another holiday and another Reacher. But hold on a minute, something is very different here. This is written in 1st person. You know something has changed but it takes a while to pick it out.
Usual format although this one has a nice line when the trick played at the beginning is summed up by reacher himself as "having more holes than swiss cheese". This is a nice line and allows you to forgive the author anything else that transpires. I think Child just plays with the ...more
Usual format although this one has a nice line when the trick played at the beginning is summed up by reacher himself as "having more holes than swiss cheese". This is a nice line and allows you to forgive the author anything else that transpires. I think Child just plays with the ...more
This book (yes another of the Jack Reacher series-- so you can see I am hooked) starts with a bang and takes a HUGE twist at the end of the first chapter that caused me to catch my breath and say "WOW!" This is a roller coaster of an action/mystery novel that just doesn't let up.
Reacher gets better and better.. (gets in the first real fight where I've felt he was outmatched.... slam-bang up against a Steroid monster of a bad guy)..
This book has it all-- mafi...more
Reacher gets better and better.. (gets in the first real fight where I've felt he was outmatched.... slam-bang up against a Steroid monster of a bad guy)..
This book has it all-- mafi...more
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Lee Child's books are one of my guilty pleasures.
"Persuader" meets my critera for guilty pleasure: plots that race at breakneck speed, characters that stop just short of being stereotypes, situations that almost defy belief, explicit violence, a little sex, plot twists and turns that keep me interested, a protagonist who is weird but likable, tough but with a soft heart and able to think at lightning speed.
In this version, Jack Reacher gets involved in trying to...more
"Persuader" meets my critera for guilty pleasure: plots that race at breakneck speed, characters that stop just short of being stereotypes, situations that almost defy belief, explicit violence, a little sex, plot twists and turns that keep me interested, a protagonist who is weird but likable, tough but with a soft heart and able to think at lightning speed.
In this version, Jack Reacher gets involved in trying to...more
In "Echo Burning", Jack Reacher goes undercover to live in a compound run by criminals in order to rescue a woman, who is a victim of the criminals. In "Persuader", Jack Reacher goes undercover to live in a compound run by criminals in order to rescue a woman, who is a victim of the criminals. Now, when I first realized that the plot setup was so similar, I was outraged and almost gave up on the book. However, since "Echo Burning" was such a dismal effort, perhap...more
Joseph Finder recommends this book as a book for thriller writers to learn from because of the opening. He's totally right. The beginning of the book starts in a small college town with Reacher wreaking some serious havoc with 2 Colt Anaconda .44 Magnum revolvers. The story quickly moves on to a fictional location somewhere between Portland, ME and Saco, ME. I've looked at google maps and found a perfect location. The story then bounces between two story lines; one in the present day and o...more
I really almost gave this 3 star's based on the fact that it took for ever for things to happen here. It was fairly predictable early on as well. One of the things that I enjoy about Reacher books is how he seamlessly gets into these situations. Except, you look back and think it was flawlessly integrated into his life. Not out of the ordinary. This seamed out of the ordinary for me. When Reacher was in his "situation" at the Beck's house though he made it feel seamless. Once that trai...more
Jack Reacher is one of my favourite fictional characters, but you don't get to know him as well in this book as others I have read. He's obsessed with an incident in his past and events in Persuader offer him a chance to 'right a wrong'. All in all it's typical of Lee Child and highly entertaining. My favourite is still 'The Hard Way'.
It's really hard to say something about a Jack Reacher book--in a very real sense, if you've read one, you've read 'em all (maybe this changes after book 7, but I doubt it). But dang it all if you don't come back for more and more and more--like Pringles, or Fritos, etc. Great action; totally outlandish, but (in the moment definitely) believable plot; lots of testosterone-y fun.
Two things I'd like to mention about this book.
First, there's this fad in TV lately where you wa...more
Two things I'd like to mention about this book.
First, there's this fad in TV lately where you wa...more
This is the best book of the series so far. And I mean it this time.
Darker in tone, considerably more violent, and whoa...what's this?...written in first person, this installment doesn't seem to belong with the previous efforts. But all of these things actually work and make a reader wonder why Child has just been phoning it in for so long. If this is what you're capable of, then why haven't you done it before?
In this chapter, Reacher arrives just in the nick of time to t...more
Darker in tone, considerably more violent, and whoa...what's this?...written in first person, this installment doesn't seem to belong with the previous efforts. But all of these things actually work and make a reader wonder why Child has just been phoning it in for so long. If this is what you're capable of, then why haven't you done it before?
In this chapter, Reacher arrives just in the nick of time to t...more
This is Lee Child the way I like him. Child is master of minutia. His descriptions make John Steinbeck look terse. He's the only guy who can take 3 pages to describe the options available to a guy who has someone holding a gun on him, ready to shoot in the next second. Not only does he describe his options, but also, in depth, a description of how exactly the gun operates--the shape of the barrel of the gun, how fast the bullet leaves the gun, how accurate its aim is, etc. All, presumably w...more
Jack Reacher is the ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments.
And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. He seems to find bad situations and decides to fix them. But some unfinished business has now found Reacher.
Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away...more
Really enjoyed this book. Nothing deep here--a standard pulp thriller that doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. Good storytelling paired with good writing almost always produces good results. My first Reacher book, and I'm looking forward to trying out the others (Kindle free book strategy paying off). Reacher is an engaging anti-hero, well-drawn and believable--as are the rest of the cast. The exception is Quinn, who's offstage penchant for mutilation and evisceration seem tota...more
Unlike my last brush with Jack Reacher I could figure out his motivation in Persuader. Payback. Ten years ago Reacher thought he killed a man named Quinn who brutally murdered his friend/colleague/possible love-interest. So it comes as a shock when he sees Quinn on the street. No worries though, with a little help from the DEA Reacher sets out to kill him for a second time. Of course it's not quite so straightforward and Reacher must overcome various obstacles whilst trailing the clues.
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Lee Child's Jack Reacher is a hero who conducts himself according to his own right-and-wrong, and his purpose is to right the wrongs that he encounters. Having been an Army MP for 13 years, Reacher is smart, resourceful, and persistent. Child lets the reader see into Reacher's thought processes so that the reader can figure out the mystery along with the main character.
This particular Jack Reacher novel is darker than other books that I have read by the same author. There are a few pag...more
This particular Jack Reacher novel is darker than other books that I have read by the same author. There are a few pag...more
A friend of mine turned me on to Jack Reacher, ultimate loner, ex-MP,tough as nails, fun character, but NOT if you're looking for a heart-warming, cuddly, empathetic (well, maybe he IS empathetic, just shows it in a somewhat violent fashion) butt-kickin' guy with regrets all over his past. I'm reading the books in order, this being the seventh. .This, in my opinion, is one of the best (on a par with "Tripwire"). Can't give away too much or it'll spoil the beginning of the book. Let's s...more
This is the first Reacher book since the very first book in the series that is told in the first person. There are few changes that make this book stand out from the rest but mostly they are superficial. The main baddie in this book is someone from Reacher's past, and the first one he hated going into. Most books he grows to the realization that he is going to kill the bad guy, but here he starts out from that point of view. One thing I really liked about the book is it had that isolation feel t...more
I liked the fact that the author kept going back an forth explaining what had happened 10 years ago and then switching into the present in the following paragraph.
I found Reacher's character quite likable. Although he is the ultimate hero and before starting the book you already know that he will end up saving the day (there is a Jack Reacher series), he's also a loner who regrets past actions and gets beaten up a lot - unlike many heroes who seem to be immune to all kinds of physical har...more
I found Reacher's character quite likable. Although he is the ultimate hero and before starting the book you already know that he will end up saving the day (there is a Jack Reacher series), he's also a loner who regrets past actions and gets beaten up a lot - unlike many heroes who seem to be immune to all kinds of physical har...more
This first-person tale is a strong entry in the series. Child's Reacher books can always be counted on for hard-ass action, but this one shows a new hard-boiled artfulness to Child's approach, capturing the bittersweet tinge of tenderness that lies in the heart of every tough guy, and serving up some terse prose that, in a couple of action sequences, will make a fan of the genre laugh with delight.
Here's one: "I caught him with a wild left in the throat. It was a solid punch, and ...more
Here's one: "I caught him with a wild left in the throat. It was a solid punch, and ...more
We just discovered Lee Child and have started reading his Jack Reacher novels. My husband loves them becuase Reacher is the ultimate tough guy. He is big, strong, ex-military police. He doesn't have any ties to anywhere, he lives off the grid, he is what every male mega hero should be. I agree with my mom, we want to be able to identify with the main charachter in a book. I have a bit of a hard time with Reacher - he's a bit too hardened for me to really love the books. These are full of action ...more
I picked this one up randomly from gods know what sale. Probably got it for free. I've never read this series before and I can say with total confidence that it didn't matter a bit. I was reminded of the Travis McGee series, but this was a lot harder, like the Parker novel I read recently, The Hunter. Overall I liked it a lot. My only real critique is that the end dragged a bit for me, but I like avalanche endings. A good thriller seems to play it out longer. I think the reason I noticed ...more
Jack Reacher as a character is intriquing and believable. His superman type exploits especially in this novel are just not believable.Jack stealthily and swiftly kills three men in 30 minutes while trying to rescue the secret agent in distress. Of course he then enters a room full of crowded people, all armed, and goes after the head honcho to get revenge for another damsel who was not so lucky as the afore-mentioned agent. The motivation rings true the miracle outcome does not.
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Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation ...more
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