Back on the bus, first to San Francisco for a couple of days, and then to Portland, Oregon, for three more, and then onward to Seattle. So after forty-eight hours in LA she went one way and I went the other.

I was six thousand miles away, in California, with a girl I met on a bus. They started looking two days after some guy took a shot at the president of France. You can leave the army, but the army doesn’t leave you. Long slow periods of nothing much, with occasional bursts of something. And often tersely.It ends in crunching violence - but Reacher readers queueing up for their annual fix expect nothing less.Eight days ago my life was an up and down affair. He's a dangerous man to know but every year I am desperate to renew my acquaintance with the one and only Jack Reacher.Child brings it all together brilliantly. Told in characteristic Child style - fast prose, smart dialogue, extraordinary detail - and with the hero in full revenge mode,it throbs with energy from the start.a pleasure to welcome him back to native land. Packed with arcane and fascinating detail.Child's almost trademarked and seriously addictive clipped prose and dialogue keeps Personal clipping along at breakneck pace with the tension ratcheting up satisfactorily to the inevitably bloody conclusion. He makes 'literary' writing seem orotund.He generates relentless momentum.Child's dedication to suspense.approaches the Hitchcockian. Because you'll have to wait for a year for the next one. You can binge-read them all in three weeks. Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd ISBN: 9780857502667 Number of pages: 480 Weight: 325 g Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 30 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĬonsistently pulse-raising.an exhilarating ride.Personal wrests back the sheer gusto of earlier novels it's the best Reacher adventure in some considerable time. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.Īlthough the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Personal is 19th in the series.Īnd be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.27, No Plan B! ***OUT NOW***

This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London. And Reacher is the one man who can find him.

Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. 'Consistently pulse-raising.an exhilarating ride.Personal wrests back the sheer gusto of the earlier novels it's the best Reacher adventure in some considerable time.' ( Independent)

Personal by Lee Child