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Date of Release: February 2003 |
Publisher: Random House |
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Reacher, the taciturn ex-MP whose adventures in Lee Child's six previous solidly plotted, expertly paced thrillers have won a devoted fan base, returns in this explosive tale of an undercover operation set up by the FBI to rescue an agent investigating Zachary Beck, a reclusive tycoon believed to be a kingpin in the drug trade.
The novel begins with a bang as Reacher rescues Beck's son from a staged kidnapping in order to get close to his father - and trace the connection between Beck and Quinn, a former army intelligence officer who tried to sell blueprints of a secret weapon to Iraq but was murdered before he could pull it off.
Or was he?
Reacher thinks so, until he spots Quinn in the crowd at a concert in Boston...
Now this chance encounter gives Reacher one last shot. Vengeance? Redemption? Reacher calls it justice.
As usual, Child ratchets up the tension and keeps the reader in suspense until the last page, although his enigmatic hero hardly ever seems to break a sweat. In the tough guy tradition, Reacher and his creator are overdue for a breakout, and this muscular, well-written mystery should be the one.
