Book info

• Title Persuader
• Author Lee Child
• Year 2003
• Genre Thriller

Never forgive, never forget. Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs - and rewrite his own agonizing past. Never apologize. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a brutal kidnap attempt, he takes the law into his own hands. But a cop dies. Has Reacher lost his sense of right and wrong?

Thoughts

The next book in the Reacher series and this time we switched to the first person narrative which was slightly weird and took a minute to adapt to. I sort of feel like it’s better to make your own decisions about what this hero/anti-hero is up to, rather than getting that deeper insight into his motives. But anyway, it made for a good revenge story, and we dipped back into the past a bit more to understand what drives Reacher to do what he does.

I love how he’s always several steps ahead, planning things based on what he would do, and generally being right. But it doesn’t always go his way, the sequence where he nearly drowned was so well written, it was brutal. In the end, we had a happy ending though - well, as happy as it gets for this wandering lost soul.

Rating: 4 / 5