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?
"One of the best writers in this genre ... His hero, Jack Reacher, is in top form ... Reacher has no doubts about his objective: to rid the world of the bad guys. And nobody does it better."
"With a huge body count, Persuader is ballsy, dynamic and not for the faint-hearted."
"Not only a great addition to the Jack Reacher novels but a superb book in its own right...dazzling... The blend of dialogue, atmosphere, action and plot will grip readers from the first page and further cement Lee Child’s reputation as a world-class thriller writer...This is everything a thriller should be."
"Very tense...real urgency... a scrupulously structured thriller...a thrilling and reputable read."
"The seventh novel in the best-selling Jack Reacher series. Persuader is another gripping thriller."
"Child is a consummate thriller writer: his prose is trim but descriptive, his plots believable, fresh and positively airtight, and here he shows himself a master of misdirection."
"Jack Reacher is a seriously tough but unbendingly moral loner, a taciturn modern-day Galahad who attracts violence like a magnet ... violent and exciting."
"Jack is Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Bruce Willis all rolled into one, a superman for our time ... gallops along with the pace of a bullet from the muzzle of a Colt Magnum."
"Jack Reacher, Lee Child's sublime, all action, sex on legs with a big gun, crime buster…
“Unputdownable” is a phrase too often used in book reviews, but Child’s irrepressible characters, all-absorbing plots and attention to criminological detail that is more meticulous than an FBI training manual make this a gripper from start to finish ... it’s ass-kicking crime writing at its most thrilling, uncompromising best."
"The question is not whether this is a book of any literary merit - it isn’t, nor was intended to be - but why is it so effective? ... People who should know better are reading him, secreted behind the dust cover of the new Don DeLillo ... A timely antidote to the type of Hornby/ Lott man who has dominated recent fiction in all their stuttering, feckless, list-making self-doubt. Reacher knows how to strip a gun and how to strip a lady."
"Child has a razor-sharp style and crafted seven perfect thrillers ... Good thing Reacher is well versed in firearms and strategy - just the guy to fight his way out of a 342 page read. Think Die Hard without the smirk."
"Another rip-roaring instalment in ex-military policeman Jack Reacher’s one-man war on corruption and crime … Great fun and highly recommended."
