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Title: Persuader (Jack Reacher 07)
Author: Lee Childs
Read By: Dick Hill
Copyright: 2003
Website: http://www.leechild.com/
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Abridged: Unabridged
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Book Description
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Never forgive, never forget. That's Jack Reacher's standard operating
procedure. And Francis Xavier Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met.
He had done truly unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know he
was dead. Until the day he saw him, alive and well, riding in a limousine
outside Boston's Symphony Hall.
Never apologize. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a brutal attempt
to kidnap a terrified young student on a New England campus, he takes
the law into his own hands. That's his way, after all. Only this time,
a cop dies, and Reacher doesn't stick around to explain. Has he lost
his sense of right and wrong? Just because this time, it's personal?
So begins Lee Child's seventh novel. Another heartstopping page-turner,
it brings back Child's much-loved hero, Jack Reacher, at his pragmatic
and uncompromising best.
From Publishers Weekly
The promo copy on the ARC of Child's new thriller proclaims, "We dare
to make this claim: Lee Child is the best thriller writer you're probably
not reading-yet." Hopefully the "six-figure" marketing campaign promised
by Child's new publisher will make that statement obsolete, because
readers will be hard-pressed to find a more engaging thriller this spring
season. Child is a master of storytelling skills, not least the plot
twist, and the opening chapter of this novel spins a doozy, as a high-octane,
extremely violent action sequence sees Child hero Jack Reacher rescue
a young man, 20-year-old Richard Beck, from an attempted kidnapping
before the rug is pulled out from under the reader with the chapter's
last line. The rest of the novel centers on the Beck family's isolated,
heavily guarded estate on the Maine coast where Reacher takes Richard.
Richard's father is suspected by Feds of being a major drug dealer and
the kidnapper of another Fed, and also seems to have ties to a fiend
who killed Reacher's lady 10 years before, someone Reacher thought he'd
killed in turn, in a vengeance slaying. Tension runs high, then extremely
high, as Reacher, ingratiating himself with the dealer and hired on
as a bodyguard, pokes around the estate, looking for the kidnapped Fed
and evading and/or disposing of in-house bad guys as they begin to suspect
he's not who he seems. But then little in Child's novels is as it at
first seems, and numerous further plot twists spark the story line.
What makes the novel really zing, though, is Reacher's narration-a unique
mix of the brainy and the brutal, of strategic thinking and explosive
action, moral rumination and ruthless force, marking him as one of the
most memorable heroes in contemporary thrillerdom. Any thriller fan
who has yet to read Lee Child should start now. Copyright 2003 Reed
Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* The word thriller is too often used as a kind of catchall,
encompassing a wildly diverse group of novels that aren't mysteries
exactly but that do generate suspense. Rather than this kitchen-sink
approach, why not limit the term to those rare novels that, in fact,
deliver thrills, books fueled by a propulsive narrative that compels
the reader forward, all systems on overdrive from beginning to end?
Stephen Hunter's Bob the Nailer novels are the perfect example of this
special breed, but Child's Jake Reacher series can match Bob stride
for stride. Child has a new publisher committed to bringing the Reacher
series, now in its seventh installment, the crossover success it has
long deserved, and fortunately, the book they've picked to do it with
is a corker. Beginning with a stunning set-piece involving the apparent
kidnapping of a college student, the novel offers the brooding Reacher,
a former military policeman, the chance to settle a score with an old
nemesis, renegade army intelligence officer Quinn, whom Reacher believed
was dead until a chance encounter on a Boston street. Using his old
sources to verify Quinn's identity, Reacher finds himself in the middle
of an FBI investigation of shady tycoon Zachary Beck. The best thrillers
run on high-octane narrative fuel, but they are not plot driven. To
generate real thrills, an author must put real people behind the wheel,
and Child does exactly that. Reacher may grow from type--the tough-guy
loner, wounded and trying unsuccessfully to disengage--but he brings
his own sinewy presence to the role. Bones crunch, wounds bleed, and
hearts break in this galvanizing tale, but they never do so generically,
and the mayhem, both physical and emotional, never feels gratuitous.
Bill Ott
Book Description
Jack Reacher.
The ultimate loner.
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.
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