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(Jack Reacher 19)

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Personal

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding.

**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**

Jack Reacher walks alone.

Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president.

Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him.

This new heart-stopping, nail-biting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London.

The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.

Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, Personal is 19th in the series.

"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)

‘Jeff Harding’s [...] narration captures Reacher’s character perfectly [...] you have to savour every minute.’ The Sunday Times

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Critic Reviews

Consistently pulse-raising...an exhilarating ride...Personal wrests back the sheer gusto of earlier novels; it's the best Reacher adventure in some considerable time.
This is the 19th Jack Reacher novel. I've read all the others. If you haven't, start now. You can binge-read them all in three weeks. But then you will be sad. Because you'll have to wait for a year for the next one. They are blissfully pedantic whodunnits. And also seriously violent thrillers....[Child] is so good. He makes "literary" writing seem orotund...He generates relentless momentum...Child's dedication to suspense...approaches the Hitchcockian.
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.
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 [Lee Child's] native land.
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. And often tersely...It ends in crunching violence - but Reacher readers queueing up for their annual fix expect nothing less.
The best one yet
Reacher is the stuff of myth…One of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes…endless surprises and fierce suspense
All stars
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I enjoyed the book, it was the first one that I have listened to, all of the rest I have read. I had never pictured Jack Reacher as some kind of Dick Tracy to me he had always been the quiet polite type. Unfortunately Jeff Harding ruined it for me and I shall go back to reading the books instead.

Good book, shame about the narrator.

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A good departure from the usual stories, but not really.
Something about the story line didn't quite gel with me and I picked up on some points giving away half the ending. But still thrilling from start to finish

Classic Reacher

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Love all the plots playing out together in a story that twists your mind every which way

Intrigue!

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What did you like most about Personal?

The story was Reacher good

What did you like best about this story?

The final rub. I love it when it all comes together and I love it when I am on the money a long way out. That doesn't always happen but whether is does or doesn't it never disappoints.

What does Jeff Harding bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

I hear Jeff Harding's voice in my head - he is Reacher

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I just LOVE it - the written style - the story line - the adventure and the home truths and lessons learnt.

Any additional comments?

Lee Childs please don't stop telling Reacher stories.

Another really enjoyable Reacher tale - I LOVE IT

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Not the best one I have heard but was OK. Kept me interested through out

Good

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Just not feeling the same level of engagement with this book as I have with the past ones

Maybe I'm getting tired of Jack?

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Another great Reacher book. I’m working through the entire series in the order they were written. This time I wish to praise the narrator, Jeff Harding. Not particularly for this book but for all the narrations so far. I made the mistake of downloading a Reacher book with a different narrator. I couldn’t finish that book. I truly hope Jeff Harding reads all in the series otherwise I won’t be able to listen to all.

Jeff Harding makes Reacher come to life

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Good but bangs on about the small details over and over which gets annoying. Worth a listen but not amazing

Okay

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I never tire of listening to his Jack's ventures...I look forward to his next adventure

Reacher

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This is the third Jack Reacher series I have read, came close to The Enemy. Loved it.

One of the best

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