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Jack Reacher, Book 19

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By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Dick Hill
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! 

“The best one yet.”—Stephen King
 
Someone has tried to kill the French president. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? John Kott—a U.S. Army marksman gone bad—is one of them. After fifteen years in prison, he’s out . . . and there’s a G8 summit coming up, packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.

If anyone can stop Kott, it’s the man who beat him before: Jack Reacher. And though he’d rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with rookie analyst Casey Nice. They’re facing a rough road, full of local thugs, double-crosses, and no backup if things go wrong. Reacher never gets too close. But this time it’s personal.
 
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Critic reviews

“Reacher is the stuff of myth, a great male fantasy. . . . One of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes . . . [Lee] Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense.”—The Washington Post

“Yet another satisfying page-turner.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Reacher is always up for a good fight, most entertainingly when he goes mano a mano with a seven-foot, 300-pound monster of a mobster named Little Joey. But it’s Reacher the Teacher who wows here.”—Marilyn Stasio, 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’s just one of fiction’s great mysterious strangers.”—Maxim

“If you like fast-moving thrillers, you’ll want to take a look at this one.”—John Sandford

“Fans won’t be disappointed by this suspense-filled, riveting thriller.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Child is the alpha dog of thriller writers, each new book zooming to the top of best-seller lists with the velocity of a Reacher head butt.”—Booklist

“Every Reacher novel delivers a jolt to the nervous system.”—Kirkus Reviews

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
Complex Plot • Surprise Ending • Masterful Narration • International Settings • Cerebral Approach

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What did you love best about Personal?

Just about everything!

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Absolutely, especially when you realize even the smallest comment from Reacher has a big meaning.

What about Dick Hill’s performance did you like?

He is a wonderful narrator who makes Reacher the character he is.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Watch your back, then watch it again.

Any additional comments?

Nope, except read the book or listin to it.

Man, Can it get any better?

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As fans of the Reacher books know, Lee Child's style is to frequently take a minor point or situation and milk it over and over from every irrelevant angle possible, leaving the main story for long stretches at a time, with the seeming intent of making the book longer and cementing his "unique style" (e.g. taking a distance in miles and repeating it in kilometers and feet and inches and millimeters, etc., with no obvious forwarding of the plot. Or time. Or even roadway signs, repeated exit after exit, or how you enter a password on a computer, and so on.)
This was okay in earlier books with enough action and excitement to make you forgive and forget, but in this one (as in some other recents), my wife and I found ourselves begging him out loud to "get on with it". The end has a decent enough twist, but it doesn't compensate adequately for the struggle to get there.
Finally, Dick Hill as the narrator. I know he is "much beloved" by many Audible fans but I find that his universally whiny-sounding female characters (I now believe that's how he thinks he has to sound to make them seem "female") are grating to the extreme. And some characters voices are so contrived and exaggerated ("Little Joey" Green, for example) that we simply couldn't understand what he was saying! I sadly may have to take a break from Reacher, and Dick Hill, for awhile. . .

Feels like Lee Child just mailed this one in. . .

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as far as Jack Reacher books go, this one was not in my top 5 maybe not in my top 10. you have a hulking Behemoth of a bad guy that they set up from early on that you know Reacher is going to fight sooner or later and of course I waited with great anticipation that scene.

taking down the main bad guy was anti-climatic even though there was a little action after that. it wasn't necessarily a bad book, but at the same time like I said not one of my favorite Reacher books.

it was ok

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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I love Lee Child books and Jack Reacher. This book was very slow and dragged on for too long. The heroin was weak and not up to caliber as other past characters and JR was not as quick as he usually is in other books. This is the first time I was ever disappointed with a L. Child novel. Hope the next one is much better!!

Very Disappointing!!

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Good Jack Reacher book with the usual strong read by Dick Hill.
But it seemed like Lee Child had a goal for so many words and ran out of fresh ones.
It is his style to repeat points and that works very well usually.
But this time he seemed to go on and on with repetitions of the same thing like his descriptions of the size dimensions within the bad guy's house. I found myself zoning out during those times.

Good Reacher book but wordy

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