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Title: Persuader by LEE CHILD ISBN: 0-440-24100-6 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (50 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: We know he's a killer, but he's OUR killer.
Comment: Jack Reacher is the prototype guy whose military career taught him that it's okay to kill people and hasn't been able to get over it. In real life, we try to throw such psychos in jail. Reacher's saving grace is that he kills only bad guys. Lee Child writes engrossing novels about Reacher, but they're a guilty pleasure because of their premise that it's okay to use a homicidal vigilante to straighten out your problems or misjudgments. This idea is not unique to Lee Child's books, but Reacher seems singularly unaffected by slaughter. In the hands of a less skilled writer, Reacher's amorality would just be a joke. In the current book, Reacher demonstrates his versatility by dispatching a houseful of thugs, using firearms, rocks, neck holds, and chisels. Despite the fatalities, I'm sure that I'll pick up the next Reacher novel, however.
Rating: 4
Summary: Jack Reacher -- great leading man in great thriller!
Comment: It was tough not to like Jack Reacher when we tried our first Lee Child novel, "Killing Floor". Back in "Persuader", the seventh in the series, our amazing hero Reacher is his usual one-man army in tracking down relentlessly a man he thought he killed ten years ago as a military MP.
The book opens fast as Reacher gets involved in what looks like a kidnapping, kills a couple of bad guys, and then by accident, a cop. This gains him access to the fort-like New England estate of the kid he saved; and we all figure out pretty soon that the Beck family is crooked. That the Becks don't seem to be calling the punches though implies some higher level villains are involved. Our hero goes on to figure it all out, kill off a bunch of the banditos single-handedly, while rescuing a DEA agent whose undercover op has gone bad. The DEA boss, Susan Duffy, helps Reacher with weapons, intelligence, and a little lovin' for good measure! Some clever flashbacks to the story of ten years ago almost gave us two mysteries in one near the end of the book.
We have come to expect hard-nosed thrills and chills from Child, and this book is no exception. While Reacher is an immensely likable, talented, and clever man, he is also a ruthless killer who breaks necks and assassinates his foes with hardly a backward look. That he's always on the side of truth and justice probably lets us let him get away with it, but there are many moments in the story not for readers with weak "fortitudes". That we can hardly turn the pages fast enough is its own recommendation, as is our desire to seek out his latest novel of suspense as well as the earlier ones we've missed. You shouldn't need much more persuadin' than that!
Rating: 5
Summary: One of "Jack Reacher"'s better books
Comment: Although Lee Child is a very good author, this is one of his better books. A page turner from start to finish, Jack Reacher fans will thoroughly enjoy this one.
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Title: Without Fail by Lee Child ISBN: 0515135283 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Tripwire by Lee Child ISBN: 0515128635 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Running Blind by Lee Child ISBN: 0515130974 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Echo Burning by Lee Child ISBN: 0515133310 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Killing Floor by Lee Child ISBN: 0515123447 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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