Persuader: A Jack Reacher Thriller
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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 unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business.
Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it…justice.
Lee Child
Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world, and have sold over one hundred million copies. Two blockbusting Jack Reacher movies have been made so far. www.LeeChild.com
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Reviews for Persuader
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another really good Jack Reacher book. I was afraid it might be too disturbing, but it wasn't bad. The suspense built up quite nicely. The characters were believable and complex. Lee Child always delivers.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Taciturn Jack Reacher of dubious and mysterious credentials and vague resume, gets caught up in a vendetta and assists authorities in a clandestine take-down of bad guys, who seemingly, are not all bad, all the time. there is enough meat here to make it worthwhile along with some suspense and twists. I will read another book by this author.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the very best of Reacher.Ironically - this sentence a wee spoiler - started out somewhat differently and I wasn't sure - he wasn't an accidental good Samaritan but working with a government agency.Then apart from the intro there's not any violence until late in the book. However, what there is is a god plot, full but not complex, full of rich detail and rationale, and a superb Recheer ending we're all proud of!If you like Jack you'll love this one and yup, this would be one hell of a movie!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Reacher is back doing Reacher stuff, but working with (for?) the government. Not the best stuff in the series.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It's the first novel I've read of Jack Reacher series in the First Person narrative. Although the style is bearable, it was a bit long winded on some soliloquies. One instance is on the drowning sequence.
The main character is good, but sometimes too good, able to get the women one way or another. I promise myself if this next novel (THE ENEMY) which is another First Person Narrative, goes the same way, I am abandoning the series.
The only driving point to reading them, for myself, is that he spent time in the Philippines, and interjects his memories of this from time to time. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I continue to be impressed with the Jack Reacher stories. Child does a great job of getting Reacher to figure out things based on observation, experience, and intuition rather than the more typical tech-savvy route.Were I to describe the opener, I'd give away a pretty cool plot twist, so just know that Reacher infiltrates a drug ring in part to finish off someone he thought he'd killed 10 years earlier.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I have been working my way through Child's Reacher novels, reading them in order. This is the poorest one - plodding
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It moved along had to listen at every chance. Very good
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cold-blooded combat analytics and good guys wins! Captivated book! Lee Child is a master!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best Lee Child has written so far.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Persuader is the seventh book in the Jack Reacher series. Each book has new characters except for "Reacher". The plot worked it's way through 13 hours; could have been shorter. But, there were several twists and turns that worked well. until the end. I didn't care for the frequent flashbacks and the story did not need them. There was a better way to end it and the author did not use it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Terrific!
Best one of the series, so far. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I seem to have a recurring problem with the Reacher series. It takes me forever to get into them and to read the first half, but then I'll stay up all night to finish the second half! This story was a bit convoluted and the flashbacks became pretty damn annoying toward the end, but overall a good read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Perhaps the introductory Reacher novel. Doesn't present him as the itinerant of the contemporary novels. It involves Reachers search for vengeance. In the middle of that he gets involved in investigation of a smuggling operation.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great gripping read
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5There is something very compelling about Child's recurring Jack Reacher character. I didn't quite like this as much as the others but… a not perfect Jack Reacher is still better than most. 10 years ago, Reacher was involved in a capture of a very bad guy that ended badly. He now has a chance to make it right.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good story the narrator used way to much drama in some of the passages...wanted to skip thru it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jack Reacher accepts a black box assignment with a team of DEA agents. Ludicrous premise; however, it is another great Reacher escapade.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I think this has to be my favorite Reacher story simply because it takes place, for the most part, outside of Portland, Maine. The ocean is always present so right away you can bet Reacher has to tangle with it at some point in the story. Of course he does. But, back to the plot. Reacher gets sucked into a compromising position, this time by his own accord. Ten years ago, a critical investigation went sideways and someone under Reacher's military command was horrifically murder. Up until present day Reacher had thought the killer was dead by his own hand. He witnessed a demise he thought no one could survive..and yet ten years later here is proof the nemesis not only survived, but is thriving. Revenge is Jack's motive. Of course, Reacher wouldn't be Reacher without an eye-roll inducing romance. This time it's with a federal agent and I agree with other reviewers when they say it feels like Child threw in the relationship with Duffy because it is simply part of the formula for Reacher's modus operandi. It was short lived and kind of silly.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The opening of this book is a little different in that it start off quite rapidly with Reacher gunning people down, only for us to find out shortly thereafter that this is all staged in order to insert him into a criminal organisation. He's being inserted as days before he had asked an military buddy to run a number plate of a man he spotted and it turns out said number plate is flagged in the system and ask per the format of this series, such a flagging brings him into the orbit of a female law enforcement agent who needs his help. Whilst the format is similar to the usual, it does unfold in a marginally different way, enough to keep it interesting but not so much that feeling of familiarity is removed.I don't quite feel it was up to the level of Running Blind and Echo Burning but it wasn't awful either.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This 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. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I was a Reacher fan until the NRA comment. Please leave politics out of this. I listen to these books to get away from the everyday BS.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The author has Reacher respond with “I said nothing” about 15 times each chapter. Combined sentences like “he said nothing” and “she said nothing” - is I enough to drive you mad after a few chapters. All the things I like about these stories are there (excitement, thriller/spy) but the writing is pretty bad. Gave an extra star for the use of the word “treacle” which is one of my favs, haha.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Horrible recording. Skips around and doesn’t have the last chapter included in the recording.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Audible. 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 story. In both ladies he beds and also "mentors" or supports. And tries to save, sometimes succesful sometimes not, that helps propels the story. Failure to save the damsel. Why do I read to the end. I'm propelled by a plot. And also just interested in how folks write novels that make them rich and popular. The violence here just wasn't balanced by something in terms of social or psychology that some novels aspire too. Don't think I'll read that many more Childs. But I did listen to the whole thing. . . . . .
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Consistent with the other entries in the series and still ennjoyable, only this time he tells two stories at once. He is just overflowing with them!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Shit, This Thing Is Selling Millions: "Persuader" by Lee Child Published 2004.
I’m taking two risks here by writing this review. The first risk sounds repetitive. I have the distinct impression that I’ve written about this in several of my previous texts. The second risk might be because you might incur a waste of my (and your) time by reading this diatribe. After reading one more Reacher book, I just had to write (again) about this.
Imagine the following dialogue with the author of this text: “Shit, this thing is selling millions. Anyone of us could have written it. I don’t believe we can put Lee Child on the same shelf along with some of Mervyn Peake's books, sadly being eaten away by moths.”
I agree that Peake's prose is much more enticing than Child’s or Meyer’s. Peake's reflections have much more inner depth. This would tempt us to say that Peake “has” more inherent quality than Child or Stephanie Meyer.
The rest of this diatribe can be found elsewhere. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Did all kinds of chores around the house today, including taking an old toothbrush to the space between the tiles in my bathroom. I'm not very fond of housecleaning, but once in a while I get a fixation on a certain specific task and get it done as if it was an Olympic event. I also did lots of stuff around the kitchen which involved hours of pureeing foods and washing dishes. Anyhow, all that gave me ample time to finish listening to my latest serving of Lee Child, Persuader, which is the 7th book in the Jack Reacher series. I've come to expect lots of gripping, violent action and unputdownable thrills-a-minute from this series, along with more flirting an sex than any Sex and the City episode used to offer up, but somehow I found this one quite boring. Here, Reacher goes undercover within what is already an undercover 'off the books' government agency operation, presumably to rescue a female agent gone missing, but also to avenge the brutal murder of one of his former work colleagues (who happened to be a very attractive young woman and would-be lover) by killing a sadistic ex-military official gone rogue. Lots of gun descriptions, which were a yawn-fest for me, though obviously essential to the story since arms dealers played a large role, and somehow not all that much action, save for two major scenes which I guess made the price of admission worth the expense. I should make the effort to count how many times Child mentions 'he/she said nothing' in any one of his books. But I guess the music is in the space between the notes, or at least, that's what I remember reading somewhere. All the same, it took me just two days to finish this 14+ hour listen, and it did get me to do a lot more chores than I normally do in a six-month period, so it couldn't be all that bad, or at least, it won't keep me from moving on to the next book in the series, to which we get a free 20-minute preview presenting the next case in which a two star General is found dead from a massive heart attack with an empty condom still stuck to his appendage in a two-bit motel a few steps away from a sleazy girlie bar. Just right for when this old maid needs her next dose of testosterone-driven action. My rating (2.75 stars) is based on my rating system in which three stars means 'enjoyed it (good)' and two stars mean 'it was just ok'.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I have been working my way through Child's Reacher novels, reading them in order. This is the poorest one - plodding
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5With a past including events like the ones Reacher recalls in this book, I can see why he is homeless by choice and hitchhiking aimlessly. Another brutal page-turner.