I just wanted a decent, normal, uncomplicated guy.' I didn't want him to have shot a kid, or his partner, or whatever. In that regard, I didn't want another drunk, alcoholic, miserable, traumatized hero. And you get to react to what has been done before. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City.'Creating a fictional character is a real luxury, because you get to choose everything. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. All have been optioned for major motion pictures-including Jack Reacher (based on One Shot) and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Petersburg Times About The Author Lee Child is the author of twenty-one New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, twelve of which have reached the #1 position.

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. Childs tale drives hard and fast.-Los Angeles Times Book Review Wickedly addictive. Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.-The Denver Post A page-turner. Petersburg Times Review Quotes Gripping and suspenseful. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence-and confront some unfinished business from his own past. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lords waterfront fortress. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. 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. And with a burning desire to right wrongs-and rewrite his own agonizing past. Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.-The Denver Post Jack Reacher lives for the moment. About the Book Includes an excerpt from: Gone tomorrow.

Persuader by Lee Child