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.

I would have to rank this as one of my favourite Lee Child books, even if I thoughs the start was dubious. For the first chapter or two, I worried this might even be a Reacher novel of a standard to rival the disaster that was Nothing to Lose. Then, of course, we got a little farther into the book and I was able to reassure myself that no book could be as bad as Nothing to Lose. I think if Lee Child were to write another book as bad as Nothing to Lose, I'd have to give up on him. Anyway, Persuad More...

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 seems unduly l 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 series since th More...

If you've seen my reviews, you know I'm a Lee Child/Jack Reacher fanatic. This is my 2nd read through of the "Reacher canon", The Persuader is another gem in this series, of which I read 3 while vacationing during a delightful week in May. Persuader starts off with a bang and never stops. This outing has Jack ensconced more or less against his better judgement in an undercover role attempting to save a missing FBI undercover agent. Typically strong and diverse secondary characters and a slew of More...

Now that I am working my way chronologically through the JACK REACHER series I am surprised to rediscover this book and even more surprised by how well the story holds up. In this Suspense/Best-Selling Serialized Hero genre the stories can get a bit repetitive especially with familiar readers who know the back story and the writer's rythyms but this, the seventh of the JACK REACHER books, stands a bit outside the norm. In the poorly titled PERSUADER, Lee Child has crafted not just another entry More...

This book is written from the male POV without alienating the female reader. The storyline centers on gun, drugs, and essentially some violence - but it isn't "in your face" or glorified. No excessive swearing (though some, in context). Also: this is my first Lee Child novel and I had not read any of the previous Reacher stories. That being said, I still really enjoyed it.

I read this on my Kindle and found myself slipping it out of my purse and reading a few pages here and there throughout the d More...

I want to like Jack Reacher, but I just can't. He never admitted to himself that he loved Dominique and he's not allowing himself to love Duffy now. You want to think the best of him but if I count up the actual dead, as opposed to the supposedly dead, well as the English presenter said about A Good Day to Die Hard, "You have to believe they're bad people because otherwise he's just a bloody murderer." I wasn't a big Bond fan and this seems to be written for the fighting and sneaking around - so More...

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A Review Of The Persuader
Alex Stein
Could you live undercover with an arms dealer for several days while trying to uncover clues about a missing DEA agent? This is exactly what the main character in The Persuader must do. Lee Child’s, The Persuader, is a thrilling novel portraying the endeavours of ex-military cop, Jack Reacher. This bone-chiller grabbed my attention after the first paragraph. Child’s creative plot, descriptive language, and unique writing style kept my nose in this book until it More...

Author Lee Child clearly has a love-hate relationship with guns in his novel "Persuader". It's apparent that he does not like the ease with which anyone can buy or sell guns in this country, and he has disdain for gun dealers, legal or illegal, who sell guns without any care about who they are selling to. On the other hands, guns abound throughout the novel, described in loving detail and used quite frequently. His hero, Reacher is similarly contradictory: he does the right thing but not always More...

Seventh in the Jack Reacher suspense series revolving around a retired MP roaming the country and rescuing the threatened. What can I say? Reacher just hates "big smug people who think they can get away with things".


My Take
Reacher is hot for vengeance and talk about TENSION. Sneaky, too. A grand scheme to get Reacher inside the house so he can search for a missing agent. A plan with so many ways it could backfire…and it does in ways expected and not.

Duke's got some cheek, dissin' on Reacher just More...

In an effort to get my divorce squared away in my brain, I have a declaration to make. For the near future, I am taking a break from romance novels. Now for those of you who know me, this is a big deal. In the past when things got tough, I went to a romance novel. For Lisa Kleypas once said “Don’t we all sometimes need to be rescued and passionately loved?” or something like that. Well folks, I am putting my hopes of a rescue on hold for a while and I am going to let my kids take care of the lov More...

"Persuader" is the third Jack Reacher novel I've read by Lee Child. After reading "One Shot" and "The Hard Way," I went backwards a bit and read this earlier book. I really liked the bad guys in this novel, especially the behemoth Paulie. You knew his demise would come, and I liked how Child did it. I also liked how Child wove the back story of events from ten years previous into the present day happenings of Jack Reacher.

I was a little surprised when I started reading the book that it was in fi More...

I'm going to add the same review for all of the Reacher series, so if you've read this one, you've read 'em all. If you feel a certain affinity for the lone hero, a man of principle, of unwavering knowledge and assent as to his own actions, than Jack Reacher's your kinda guy.

Lee Child has created an unforgettable and unique character in his creation of Jack Reacher. Jack seems to implicitly understand that he is a unique animal/human running around on this planet and that in spite of social con More...

I borrowed this ebook from the library because I'd read Lee Child's short story The Second Son, really enjoyed it, wanted to try out a full-length book of Child's, and Reacher #7 was the only one available to borrow. I put a hold on the first Jack Reacher novel.

Like the short story, this book gripped me from the beginning. The writing is tight; the character Jack Reacher came to life right away; the suspense began from the first word and kept on going. There was a flashback after chapter one. I 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.

REVIEWER’S OPINION:
There is a great scene in the beginning with Reacher thwa 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.

For me, the biggest surprise, More...

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 the stor 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 accident, a cop. This gains him access to the f 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! Persuader starts off w 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 knows pretty much every way there is to subdue 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 form. His books are all ide 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-- mafia types, spies, perverts, and smack More...

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 rescue an undercover DEA agent wh More...

I had a really good time with Jack Reacher though I didn't have sex with him. This was quite a lively book in the series but be prepared to seriously suspend reality here- he did things, other people did things, hell, they all were doing things that cannot be done.

Jack Reacher fans know he was raised in a military family that was anything but cozy, he was in the military police for 13 years, and now he just wanders around without a driver's license (though he does a lot of driving and never get More...

Devotees of Jack Reacher know what to expect: improbable victory against overwhelming odds. Persuader ticks all the boxes. The pace is unrelenting, the violence is gruesome, the corpse count high (even by Reacher standards).

If it were believable, it would be repulsive. But this is a thriller that knows its audience and delivers. It begins with a chance encounter in a Boston street, develops -through a kidnap which may or may not be genuine - into the weird lifestyle of a Persian carpet salesman 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, perhaps Lee Child wanted to get it righ 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 one ten More...