Persuader: (Jack Reacher 7)

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I'm not sure. Anybody who knows my family. Anybody in the rug community, I guess. We're well known." As always, it is Reacher's all-consuming obsession with revenge, or at least with his personal interpretation of doling out justice, which pushes him far beyond the normal boundaries of physical endurance and acceptable risk. Another Reacher novel, “The Enemy”, won the Barry and the Nero awards for Best Novel. With all of these accolades one would think Lee Child was born to be an author. But as usually is the case, his success story has many twists and turns that lead him on the path to writing his best selling novels and to ultimately create this alluring character. Born Jim Grant on October 29, 1954 in Coventry England, Child and his family moved to Birmingham when he was four years old. Baldacci, David, ed. (2014). FaceOff. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781476762074 . Retrieved 31 December 2016. There was a big sprawling out-of-town shopping mall nestled south and west of the highway interchange. I could already see it in the distance. There were giant tan buildings with no windows and bright neon signs. There were giant parking lots about half-filled with cars. I pulled in and drove once around the whole place. It was as big as a town. There were people everywhere. They made me nervous. I came around again and headed in past a line of trash containers to the rear of a big department store.

Persuader by Lee Child: Summary and reviews - BookBrowse

A beautiful cop who runs Hope joins forces with Reacher to break open the secrets of Despair and expose their connection to the war that is killing Americans. There are numerous actors that would better fit Reacher’s dimensions… but I’m not sure any would have Tom’s presence. I’m not Tom’s biggest fan, for sure. But more often than not, he does what he does quite well. Reply

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The settings for many of the novels are found within the United States of America, in locales ranging from major metropolitan areas like New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., to small rural towns in the Midwestern United States and Southern United States. Reacher's travels outside the United States have taken him to rural England ( The Hard Way, Maybe They Have a Tradition), London ( Personal), Hamburg ( Night School) and Paris ( The Enemy, Personal). I'm going to let you out near the highway," I said. "You can hitch a ride or call a cab and then you can forget all about me." And Reacher came onto her radar when he started looking into the dead man he saw, who apparently has some connection to the drug dealers.

Persuader - Penguin Books UK

The evidence points to a soldier from a local military base who has someone powerful friends that could help to cover up something like this. Reacher meets with the local sheriff who is looking for justice in this case, but the two are uncertain if they can trust each other. As Reacher looks to uncover the truth, there are others trying to bury it forever. He’ll end up uncovering a conspiracy that threatens his faith in his mission and turns him into the scary man that readers know well. The book was an immediate success and the series has since sold more than 100 million copies. The novels have also been translated into 49 languages. Did Lee Child Retire? Even before Reacher does the what-we-thought-was-unthinkable, Child hooks the reader right with the opening lines:Echo Burning: Reacher is traveling across the scorching Texas desert when he ends up catching a rife from a woman. Her name is Carmen Greer and she has quite the story to tell him. The woman tells him that the only reason that she stopped is because of her problem: her husband. He is getting out of prison soon and she’s afraid of what will happen to her. She’s looking for someone to kill her husband and she thinks that man is Reacher. Umm ... no: aside from being a physical impossibility, surely a miss would just swing Reacher uncomfortably around.