Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

Sep 2014 · Jack Reacher Book 19 · Sold by Delacorte Press

About this ebook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jack Reacher returns in another fast-moving, action-packed, suspenseful book from Lee Child.
 
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.
 
Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott—an American marksman gone bad—is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he’s out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.
 
If anyone can stop Kott, it’s the man who beat him before: Reacher. And though he’d rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with Casey Nice, a rookie analyst who keeps her cool with Zoloft. But they’re facing a rough road, full of ruthless mobsters, Serbian thugs, close calls, double-crosses—and no backup if they’re caught. All the while Reacher can’t stop thinking about the woman he once failed to save. But he won’t let that that happen again. Not this time. Not Nice.
 
Reacher never gets too close. But now a killer is making it personal.

Praise for Personal
 
“The best one yet.”—Stephen King
 
“Reacher is the stuff of myth, a great male fantasy. . . . One of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes . . . 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

Ratings and reviews

After reading what I think is by far Reacher's best read, "Worth Dying For", this book was frankly, boring. I never thought I would ever say that about a Reacher novel, but I struggled through this book because it spent the first 300+ pages setting up a weak premise. Most of the time I can't put the book down. This one took me weeks to finish because it didn't hold my attention.

I love the entire Reacher series but this was just awful. I didn't even finish it. I didn't care what happened, there was no plot and too many tangential characters who were never developed. It sounds like he sold out to the loser Tom Cruise because this seemed to be written for his vapid style. I'm sure we'll see this as a movie soon.

This is the first Reacher story I recall he didn't get involved with the girl. And there were two gorgeous babes! I was hoping the younger one would swoon for him, but no sex, no nothing kept it realistic...and adds to the mystique for his next book. Easy to follow with great characters and well-described scenes. Surprise ending that was smugly satisfying. Another great book by Lee Child. Next adventure I hope he has some fun!

About the author

Lee Child is the author of nineteen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, ten of which have reached the #1 position. All have been optioned for major motion pictures; the first, Jack Reacher, was based on One Shot. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in almost a hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City.