Product Description

The latest Jack Reacher bestseller with the biggest campaign so far.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3044 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

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.

One read and you will be hooked
This book was real treat (especially as I got it as a freebee from the Evening standard). It is my first Jack Reacher book and won't be my last. This can be a stand-alone book, although I'm sure you will get more out of it if you have read the others.
What I liked about it is that the plot kept changing and evolving as it was told trough the eyes of Jack. A minor niggle - Every now and then I found Jack `a little too right or invincible all the time', but then if you accept that, then he is a believable character.
I'm not normally a sucker for freebee advertising, but I'm finding myself looking around for the rest of the series.

My first Child novel
One Shot is the first Lee Child novel I ever read. I'd gone into many stores before and picked up other titles The Enemy, Persuader, Tripwire & Die Trying. But, after reading back cover I would always think "nah, probably too much reading". Some months later I picked up a copy of One Shot in a book store and thought "maybe". The plot looked good so I went for it, and I was seriously impressed they way it was written. I loved the way Reacher just turns up in the town where the shootings happened, how he goes about dealing with people (the Russians, the girl & guys in the sports bar). And also how at the end after doing what he has to, Reacher just up's and leaves. No goodbyes or thanks for your help, he just takes off. bloody brilliant.