Product Description

With six shots, five people were dead and one heartland city is thrown into terror. But within hours, the cops have it solved. It is a slam-dunk case, except for one thing - the accused man claims: "You got the wrong guy". After that, all he'll say is: "Get Reacher for me." Jack Reacher lives off the grid. He is a lone righter of wrongs and is irresistible to women. What could connect the ex-military cop to this obvious psychopath? Those who know, call Reacher 'the thinking reader's action hero'. This book is sharp, exciting, and addictive. "One Shot" is sure to get you hooked.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2597 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Lee Child's Jack Reacher thrillers always have remarkably inventive setups, and One Shot is true to form. A sniper, Barr, kills five people with six shots and leaves a clear trail of evidence; arrested, he asks for Reacher. When Reacher was a military policeman, politics stopped him pursuing Barr--he cannot understand why Barr would ask for him and Barr has been beaten in jail until he cannot remember himself. Yet, for Reacher, the loner who looks at things differently from civilians, the story does not add up--Barr should not have got himself caught, should not even have fired from where he did.

Child is a master of the perverse solution to the set of questions no-one ever asked in quite that way before, and the macho yet sensitive Reacher is one of the more interesting series characters in thrillers. One Shot is a smart set of puzzles which strings the reader along to false conclusions and a sense of real danger. It also, like its hero, has a heart. --Roz Kaveney

Evening Standard, April 11 2005
'fast-moving dialogue and gripping action sequences...the excitement lasts from the first to the final page'

Arena - Summer reads
'Reacher sees justice done while kicking commendable amounts of ass...Intricate plotting makes for an engrossing read.'

Customer Reviews

One Shot twists and turns ***1/2
'Friday, five o' clock in the afternoon. Maybe the hardest time to move unobserved through a city. Or, maybe the easiest. Because at five o' clock on a Friday afternoon nobody pays any attention to anything except the road ahead.'

As one of the other reviewers said there's nothing wrong with formulaic when it works as well as this. I don't know if I'll tire of Reacher but for now they are completely addictive. Yes, there are some problems with his invincibility but Child is very good at setting up twists and turns to demonstrate his mental agility as well as all that physical invincibility so that we're happy to suspend disbelief and go with the flow. Like yet one of the other reviewers I find myself very worried about jack's personal hygiene - why doesn't he wash out his clothes? He has a toothbrush but no deodorant and yet he is irresistible to women. Still, these aren't books to ponder over - it's more a matter of one finished...where's the next one?

One SHOT- Totally HOT!
Fantastic Fantastic Fantastic. From 1st page to the last Lee Child has you by the throat- a fabulous JACK REACHER adventure -thriller- Incredible!

" Reacher said nothing"

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Love Leo Tolstoy - but Lee Child is a new favourite
I picked up a copy of this book for free one day with a London newspaper. It sat on my shelf for weeks unread - probably partly because I had my own snobby preconceptions about Child. The adverts I'd seen for his books made them look like complete no-brainers all about muscle and guns. Then I read One Shot and it certainly will not be the last Lee Child I read.

He paces his books perfectly and Jack Reacher is one of the great crime-fighters - hard as nails but smart, sophisticated and very 21st century in his opinions and attitudes. Child takes you through Reacher's thoughts with the skill of a master. I loved One Shot, am now reading The Enemy, and already put Child up there with my two favourite crime/thriller writers: Ian Rankin and Ian Fleming.