Book : Persuader (jack Reacher) - Child, Lee

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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES THAT INSPIRED TWO MAJOR MOTION PICTURES AND THE STREAMING SERIES REACHER “Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.”-The Denver Post Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs-and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord’s waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence-and confront some unfinished business from his own past. Review “Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.”-The Denver Post “A page-turner . . . [Lee] Child’s tale drives hard and fast.”-Los Angeles Times Book Review “Wickedly addictive . . . so fast-paced it makes the eyeballs spin.”-Orlando Sentinel “A story that will sweep you along as fast as some of the riptides Reacher survives.”-St. Petersburg Times 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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One The cop climbed out of his car exactly four minutes before he got shot. He moved like he knew his fate in advance. He pushed the door against the resistance of a stiff hinge and swiveled slowly on the worn vinyl seat and planted both feet flat on the road. Then he grasped the door frame with both hands and heaved himself up and out. He stood in the cold clear air for a second and then turned and pushed the door shut again behind him. Held still for a second longer. Then he stepped forward and leaned against the side of the hood up near the headlight. The car was a seven-year-old Chevy Caprice. It was black and had no police markings. But it had three radio antennas and plain chrome hubs. Most cops you talk to swear the Caprice is the best police vehicle ever built. This guy looked like he agreed with them. He looked like a veteran plain-clothes detective with the whole of the motor pool at his disposal. Like he drove the ancient Chevy because he wanted to. Like he wasn’t interested in the new Fords. I could see that kind of stubborn old-timer personality in the way he held himself. He was wide and bulky in a plain dark suit made from some kind of heavy wool. He was tall but stooped. An old man. He turned his head and looked north and south along the road and then craned his thick neck to glance back over his shoulder at the college gate. He was thirt