Persuader, Lee Child
Persuader, Lee Child
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Persuader
A Jack Reacher Novel

Author: Lee Child

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 13 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2021

Synopsis

“Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.”—The Denver Post
 
Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs—and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion.
 
Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord’s waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence—and confront some unfinished business from his own past.

#7 in the Jack Reacher series
 

Praise for Persuader
 
“A page-turner . . . [Lee] Child’s tale drives hard and fast.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
 
“Wickedly addictive . . . so fast-paced it makes the eyeballs spin.”—Orlando Sentinel
 
“A story that will sweep you along as fast as some of the riptides Reacher survives.”—St. Petersburg Times

About Lee Child

English Author Jim Grant (Pen Name) “Lee Child”, was born in 1954 in Coventry, England UK. His most notable writings are the Jack Reacher series novels. Beginning with his first novel, Killing Floor, each of his work follows a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher who wanders throughout the United States.

Grant (Child) studied law at the University of Sheffield, but knew he had no intention of practicing law. After graduating, he worked in commercial television. He worked in that venue until 1995. A fun fact is that he chose Reacher for his main characters name, because he himself is tall and his wife once said, “If this “writing thing” does not work out, you could always be a Reacher in a supermarket.” Grant (Child) describes his books as revenge stories-“somebody does a very bad thing, and Reacher takes revenge.” In 2012, his novel “One Shot”, was adapted into a film called “Jack Reacher”, starring Tom Cruise.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on April 19, 2020

Jack Reacher is often found minding his own business when something happens right in front of him that propels him into another mission. In this case, he's walking down a street in Boston when he sees a dead man--or at least a man who is supposed to have been dead for ten years. And if anyone should......more

Goodreads review by Julie on December 03, 2013

I am totally loving this series. (Although I think it must be best NOT to read them back to back because then the formula wears through.) This is a good one -- tense, claustrophobic, and non-stop action. Two quibbles -- the romance between Reacher and Duffy seems...unmotivated. Like the author says......more

Goodreads review by Shirin on April 12, 2025

2025April This time was good... could have been worse... or better with more of my favorite couple... maybe! **** 2024Feb update: Yaay, my favorite book is going to be the next season!! Who the hell is going to be Paulie?? 2024Sep update: **** 2023March مثل همیشه معمایی، پرتشنج و خفن بود ولی اینبار چه توصی......more

Goodreads review by Suz on April 23, 2025

This is the first 3 star rating for all of Mr Reacher's titles thus far. This one I didn't love quite so much. I have listened to seven books in just under two months so I would be safe in saying they are keeping me company. Good, solid, comfortable, reliable and strong company at that. I probably o......more

Goodreads review by Karin on November 14, 2013

This is the book that put Lee Child on my must-always-read list. I hated Killing Floor because (1) obviously Lee had never been to Georgia when he wrote this and (2) I wasn't yet published when it came out, so I had to be a jealous hater. Both were remedied by the time I read Persuader, and I could l......more

Quotes

“Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.”—The Denver Post
 
“A page-turner . . . [Lee] Child’s tale drives hard and fast.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
 
“Wickedly addictive . . . so fast-paced it makes the eyeballs spin.”—Orlando Sentinel
 
“A story that will sweep you along as fast as some of the riptides Reacher survives.”—St. Petersburg Times

Praise for the Jack Reacher series

“The truth about Reacher gets better and better. . . . This series [is] utterly addictive.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears.”—Ken Follett

“Reacher is the stuff of myth. . . . One of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes.”—The Washington Post

“I’m a fan.”—James Patterson
  
“The Reacher novels are easily the best thriller series going.”—NPR

“Reacher is a man for whom the phrase moral compass was invented: His code determines his direction. . . . You need Jack Reacher.”—The Atlantic

“I pick up Jack Reacher when I’m in the mood for someone big to solve my problems.”—Patricia Cornwell
 
“[A] feverishly thrilling series . . . You can always count on furious action.”—Miami Herald

Awards

  • The Crime Writers Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
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