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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005WM78XS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mass Paperback (December 19, 2009)
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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. He is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.

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DaveP

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Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2018

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I am a Reacher fan. If this had been the first Reacher book I read, I would never have read another. In fact, I would not have made it to the end of this, and that would have been a blessing, because the ending of this book is the stupidest thing I have ever read in Crime Fiction, and that is saying a lot. I have learned from this, however, to avoid any future Reacher books that are written in the first person. That's the easiest prose to write, and apparently it signals that Lee Childs is taking this book off, just churning it out, not wasting any time actually thinking about it. If you're determined to read all of the series, save this one for last.

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Randy Smith

mixed feelings but still a good read

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019

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I find that since I started reading Jack Reacher, my emails are inundated with tons of other thrillers about ex-soldier doing people right.....they have found to be much more fast paced but I love the cerebral aspect of Lee's writing....while I still enjoy reading them, I've broaden my wish list.....now, about THIS book.....it's fast paced and Jack takes little time in getting his revenge, but my problem with THIS book was the "book within the book".....he was after an old nemesis any way but lee kept going back to 10 year old flashbacks to set the stage of just how bad this old nemesis was, problem being, it seemed to take half the book...jack reacher doesn't need a half book or so to "set the stage", heck, just say what he did wrong and we'd believe the mission.....but every water wave and every tree and new room he enters gets 10-15 pages of in depth description so you can imagine just how long this "other book" was.....just too much for me....it just felt this was done in effort to write yet another 500 page book--which so far all of them have proven to be....think i'll shelve jack reacher for a while and go back to the more thrilling and come back to jack later...

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Dave G.

Not one of my favorites in this series.

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2017

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The first 5 books in this series are amazing, and I couldn't put them down. After Echo Burning, they begin to get formulaic and dull... Without Fail, and Persuader were snoozers in comparison. One thing I didn't like about this one, is that Lee changes to a "first person" format for some reason, I for some reason, i'm just not "feeling" it. "Make me", which I read out of sequence, was amazing. When Lee Child is inspired, he's great... I hope I come across some inspired writing soon.

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Danger is his business!

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2018

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In the seventh installment in the Reacher saga we find our wandering hero again working for the feds (he might as well just get hired on full time at this rate). This time he’s on a sketchy off the books operation infiltrating the compound of a criminal honcho in a dangerous undercover role.

Well, finally after seven books Lee Child has figured out that Glock pistols don’t have an external safety and even goes into some detail about their two part trigger mechanism. I still don’t think he really understands these types of double action only pistols; he’s got Reacher carrying one in his pocket with a round in the chamber. Without a doubt one of the surest ways of getting a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a pro like JR would never do this especially given how sensitive a trigger pull they have.

There’s a backstory about tank rounds and in particular the Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot (APDS) munition. Supposedly there’s some big secret plan about this technology and enemy attempts to steal them. This book is set around 2003 and all I can say is we had APDS rounds when I served in the Army as a tanker in the mid-70’s and there wasn’t anything classified about them. Other minor things like his describing a female NCO in a Reacher flashback having removed her uniform blouse and having a t-shirt on with name/US Army tapes on it- nobody’s got tapes on their t-shirts. On the side of realism later when the same NCO hints at maybe the two of them start dating he nixes it for the right reasons. Reacher explains it’s unprofessional and that their fraternization will only hurt her career. As his subordinate any future achievements she makes will always have an asterisk next to them because the assumption will be they happened because of his influence and not her talent. Absolutely true!

“Persuader” (named after the Mossberg 12 gauge shotgun) is a classic Reacher tale; a taught, page turner with plenty of suspense, action and violence that fans have come to expect. Lee Child has a gift for telling a story and I’ve already started reading the next in the series.

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Is Reacher going to die this way?

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2016

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I have had little experience with Lee Child's Jack Reacher character but after reading Mr. Child's expansive explanation of Reacher, how he was conceived, what expectations he hope to fulfil with a character like this, well.... I think I'm hooked. Although I'm not sure I will ever read all of the Reacher books, the fact that Child has told us that Reacher will win is not a disappointment When I look back at some of my favorite TV series that were based on a hero or heroine, it was comforting that we knew, no matter the odds, that our hero was going to win. That said, Child put's a story togethet that is complex, fast paced, and is full of surprises. In fact, in the Persuader, there are more than one situations that Reacher finds himself in that you wonder....Is Child really going to let him die this way? This book is a great read...cover to cover. It will not disappoint..

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Lynsey Moffat

Reacher goes dark...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2015

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It's really hard to review a book without spoiling the plot! I will try my best.

Reacher witnesses an attempt to kidnap a college kid from campus, in the melee, a cop gets shot. You spend a lot of time wondering if Reacher's moral compass has broken. He doesn't seem worried about the innocent cop who got killed.
Reacher manages to get the young lad to safety and back to his family. The boy's father, a "rug" importer, is extremely grateful and also security conscious, so offers Reacher a job with his security team, and a room in the family's remote mansion. Again, you're left wondering if Reacher has crossed to the dark side.
However, Reacher does spend at lot of time protecting the wife and boy & himself from the other "bouncers"', whilst also trying to find out a bit more about who would want to kidnap the lad and why. The main question is what is his father REALLY importing?
The plot keeps you guessing right up until the end. Child introduces new characters and obstacles along the way to keep the story interesting and flowing. His characters are written with consistency, and Child's description of pretty much every person and place is so rich you can imagine them as clear as day.

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P. Hendry

Great of course

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2020

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Well I’m three quarters of the way through and as usual Lee Child has done it again really good read I’ve had to slow down because once I’ve read it I’ve got to find another book. The trouble with Jack Reacher is that when you’ve read it that’s it for a while, I have to admit I have read some again and if you wait a few months you find things you haven’t remembered never a dull read.

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Lee Child as created a great character in Jack Reacher

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2017

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Lee Child as created a great character in Jack Reacher, sometimes the novels are a bit far fetched which spoils it slightly but always an easy read.
I tend to read a few other books between reading Jack Reacher books or I would start to find them a bit the same.
Steve Whitcombe
The Persuader is a good read but starts to get a bit to far fetched for me, although I am sure I will continue reading Jack Reacher books, once you are into the books its hard to watch the films with a very small Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher.
Steve Whitcombe.

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Mme Lorraine Mckie

Good read as usual for Reacher books.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2019

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Wasn’t as easy to get into the story as the previous six books, but once I did it was very good. I like the fact that Reacher always deals out his justice when he feels it is deserved. What I didn’t like was too many pages describing how he feels about the girl. All you really need to know is that she is attractive and he’s going to go to bed with her. You can use your own imagination.
I would recommend this book as a good read.

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Vanda Denton

I couldn't wait for the fight.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2016

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As always, I thoroughly enjoyed a Lee Child action thriller, even on this a second reading. I particularly appreciated the scene, often remembered and teasingly built up in anticipation, of the fight between Reacher and Paulie. I can happily ecommend the book to anyone who has not yet read it for this alone.

This time Reacher is undercover, investigating a drug dealer, and more importantly, an old enemy. There is of course, an intelligent love interest too. There is unusual gadgetry and there are gun battles as well as fist fights. This is another cracking good read.

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