Personal - (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child (Paperback)

About the Book

You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA when someone shots at the president of France, from sniper range, using an American bullet.

Book Synopsis

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"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.

Review Quotes

"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

About the Author

Lee Child is the author of more than two dozen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with most having reached the #1 position, and the #1 bestselling complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City and Wyoming.