Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #558 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 542 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Crime Time, Issue 31 2003
'Will grip readers from the first page and will further cement Lee Child's reputation as a world-class thriller writer'

Literary Review
'Very tense ... real urgency ... a scrupulously structured thriller ... a thrilling and reputable read.'

Customer Reviews

A great read
I'm a great Lee Child fan, but for some reason was late coming to this one. The way it's written in the first person offers insights into the classic Reacher character in ways that some of the other books don't. I found this really worked, and overall this was definitely the most gripping of the series so far.

Reacher at his best
Another brilliant Reacher story I cant get enough of this character and his exploits. If you like this type of genre read the Soft Target books by Conrad Jones they`re even better, and thats saying something !!

My fave Reacher story
The first Reacher book I read I was quite disappointed with, some months later I happened upon this in a second hand shop and decided to give it a go.....2 days later I'd finished it and have been a Reacher fan ever since. The plot moves at a cracking pace, the storyline itself is simply ace....I love it