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"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)

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 heartstopping, nailbiting 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.

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

And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.26, Better off Dead! ***OUT NOW***

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Jack Reacher, the popular drop-out renegade crusader for justice, returns in a brand-new thriller in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Praise for #1 bestselling author Lee Child and his Jack Reacher series

"Welcome to the relentless world of Jack Reacher and his impressive tendency to be in the wrong place at the right time. . . . Child has created an iconic character that other thriller writers try to emulate but don't come close to matching."--Associated Press

"The Reacher novels are easily the best thriller series going."--NPR
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"Child is a superb craftsman of suspense.""--Entertainment Weekly"
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"The truth about Reacher gets better and better."--Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"

"If you're a thriller fan and you're not reading the Reacher series, you're not a thriller fan."--"Chicago Tribune"
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"[A] feverishly thrilling series . . . with Child, you can always count on furious action.""--The Miami Herald"

"Irresistible Reacher remains just about the best butt-kicker in thriller-lit."--"Kirkus Reviews"

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"The best one yet."--Stephen King
Praise for #1 bestselling author Lee Child and his Jack Reacher series
"Welcome to the relentless world of Jack Reacher and his impressive tendency to be in the wrong place at the right time. . . . Child has created an iconic character that other thriller writers try to emulate but don't come close to matching."--Associated Press
"The Reacher novels are easily the best thriller series going."--NPR
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"Child is a superb craftsman of suspense.""--Entertainment Weekly"
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"The truth about Reacher gets better and better."--Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"
"If you're a thriller fan and you're not reading the Reacher series, you're not a thriller fan."--"Chicago Tribune"
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"[A] feverishly thrilling series . . . with Child, you can always count on furious action.""--The Miami Herald"
"Irresistible Reacher remains just about the best butt-kicker in thriller-lit."--"Kirkus Reviews"

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"The best one yet."--Stephen King
"Reacher is the stuff of myth, a great male fantasy. . . . One of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes . . . [Lee] Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense.""--The Washington Post"
"Yet another satisfying page-turner.""--Entertainment Weekly"
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"Reacher is always up for a good fight, most entertainingly when he goes "mano a mano" with a seven-foot, 300-pound monster of a mobster named Little Joey. But it's Reacher the Teacher who wows here."--Marilyn Stasio, "The New York Times"
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"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's just one of fiction's great mysterious strangers."--"Maxim"
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"If you like fast-moving thrillers, you'll want to take a look at this one."--John Sandford
"Fans won't be disappointed by this suspense-filled, riveting thriller."--"Library Journal "(starred review)
"Child is the alpha dog of thriller writers, each new book zooming to the top of best-seller lists with the velocity of a Reacher head butt."--"Booklist"
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"Every Reacher novel delivers a jolt to the nervous system."--"Kirkus Reviews"

The best one yet. Stephen King
Reacher is the stuff of myth, a great male fantasy. . . . One of this century s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes . . . [Lee] Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense. " The Washington Post"
Yet another satisfying page-turner. " Entertainment Weekly"
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Reacher is always up for a good fight, most entertainingly when he goes "mano a mano" with a seven-foot, 300-pound monster of a mobster named Little Joey. But it s Reacher the Teacher who wows here. Marilyn Stasio, "The New York Times"
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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 s just one of fiction s great mysterious strangers. "Maxim"
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If you like fast-moving thrillers, you ll want to take a look at this one. John Sandford
Fans won t be disappointed by this suspense-filled, riveting thriller. "Library Journal "(starred review)
Child is the alpha dog of thriller writers, each new book zooming to the top of best-seller lists with the velocity of a Reacher head butt. "Booklist"
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Every Reacher novel delivers a jolt to the nervous system. "Kirkus Reviews""

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Transworld Digital; 1st edition (28 August 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 369 pages

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Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Two blockbusting Jack Reacher movies have been made so far. He is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.

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L.P.

Fast things slow \ slow things slow

Reviewed in Australia on 23 December 2019

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I absolutely love fights in Jack Reached books. The language is perfect, the explanations fascinating, the action like a brutal ballet a la John Wick. Some descriptions go on too long in this one while his description of a certain part of London is funny - a touch odd considering Child is English. Still, I keep reading these and the payoff in this one is better than some of the others. Another plus is that this time Reacher keeps the romantic interludes on the backburner.

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Interstater

like all of the Reacher books

Reviewed in Australia on 21 September 2014

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I am a fan of Lee Child's, so I have a tendency to be a tad bias towards him. That said, I am a bigger fan of the Jack Reacher character and a dedicated follower, like all of the Reacher books, it is fast and full of things you need to look out for if you are one of those that, like me, (I would never make a policeman BUT I was a soldier) to also try and solve the mysteries, sadly like a lot of authors, clues are kept from you, the reader. This book is very good, and one I had a little trouble putting down. Not everything in the book was automatically believable and some of the issues were....well, a little off the mark you might say, so I gave it a 5 stars because it was better than just a "I like it" book. Rod.

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Helen Turner-Heaton

Great books, have to pace myself, not to read too quickly

Reviewed in Australia on 21 November 2021

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I have a few Jack Reacher books to go yet, but pacing myself. Haven't read a bad one yet. Only one criticism wished I could get Tome Cruise out of my mind for this character, no way!

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JB

PERSONAL: Jack Reacher 19

Reviewed in Australia on 12 October 2015

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Personal: (Jack Reacher 19). Lee Child always seems to be able to create very interesting stories that are hard to put down. I found Personal to be challenging as I tried to anticipate what would happen and really entertaining because quite often I was wrong. The twists and turns were simply captivating and the prose was so good that I could see the story, not just read it.

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Old man of the sea

Reacher, almost at home in the UK.

Reviewed in Australia on 19 September 2014

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Expecting Jack Reacher to like a fish out of water in the UK, he fits like a hand in a fitted glove, hardly missing a beat, although he may have looked the wrong way at the kerb before crossing the street, he manages the same sort of miscreants as he is used to in the US. The British secret service is probably more discreet than the DHS or FBI, and he manages to get them on side effortlessly.
Another ripping yarn, and it must have given Lee Chlld a warm fuzzy feeling researching this one in familiar territory.

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VAL TUFREY

I loved the setting for this book

Reviewed in Australia on 21 November 2014

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I loved the setting for this book , since it was in the suburb of London that I lived as a child. I really enjoy any book about London. Although to be brutally honest, I think the Jack Reacher stories where he drifts around the US have been more enjoyable to me, than 'Personal', but I do hope he writes more from this setting...

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John Benett

personally..its a little better

Reviewed in Australia on 24 October 2014

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Just finished Personal. After reading every Reacher book, this gave me the impression that Lee Child is fully aware that Jack is getting older and this tale has more reflections on his past than many others. It's a good tale with a good ending but not as exciting as Jack was back "in the day". More build up...long tales of his history mixed with the same elbow fighting tactics he always uses. One really mysterious observation is the Little Joey character whose is 7 feet tall and 60 pounds bigger than Jack. If this book is ever made into a movie I hope they actually find some one meeting the actual size, but based on Tom Cruise playing Jack, I guess a six foot ordinary size actor will play a seven foot giant.

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JoBrAnSa Tasmania Australia

Not sure what it was but Personal didn't have the ...

Reviewed in Australia on 29 September 2014

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Not sure what it was but Personal didn't have the 'pulling power' that other Reacher novels had. Maybe there was a bit too much detail, which detracts from his 'simple' lifestyle.

No doubt there will be another, which I will read, regardless. I just hope it follow doesn't digress further from the 'norm' that we expect from Lee Child.

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Mark Dyer

Adequate as entertainment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2020

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I wasn't much impressed with this one as there was an accumulation of apparently small points that eventually added up to an overall feeling of inaccuracy. From the start, the means by which The Authorities got in touch with JR in the first place didn't quite ring true but I don't know much about the resources such places have so perhaps I'm wrong.

I was greatly amused by the middle third of the book, how a British author described events, places and so on within Greater London as if he were a foreigner (in this case American), over-explaining some things and making some mild mistakes; for example, I've never heard that Place of Learning being referred to as The University of Cambrige - it's always been Cambridge University to me although I have since seen it called that and perhaps I wasn't brung up proper.

It was nice. To see that. The narrative. Went through a phase. Where sentances were longer. Than Mr Child often writes. I noticed one sentance that went on for more than 25 words so all credit to him.

The fact that I noticed those descriptions and writing style indicates that I was not gripped by the story: as usual there was a significant amount of travelling around, beatings up, and so on. In that regard the book was like an episode of the original Star Trek; we knew where we were, where we were going to be and how it would end. After all, that's why we buy the books. The ending was all a bit sudden, leaving me with the impression of having consumed fast food and not haute cuisine.

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Squeaky Joe

The plot fizzes along at a heady pace

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2022

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On a bus heading for Seattle, Jack Reacher picks up a copy of the Army Times. In the personals column he finds a message aimed at one particular person – Jack Reacher. Having already read about someone taking a shot at the French president, and knowing he owes someone a favour from way back, Reacher knows he’ll have to respond.

This is book 19 in the Reacher series and as usual it features a fair bit of violence. When Reacher is sent off to Paris to hunt down a sniper, he meets up with representatives from other countries, including Russia. Unfortunately, not all of them survive the visit and Reacher is re-routed to England where a G8 summit is planned. Working out who the target will be and finding the killer before he pulls the trigger, is Reacher’s task. But can he find the man before times runs out? Along the way, he meets a gang leader even taller than himself, and a bunch of criminals who drive around in posh cars and who seemingly have information they really shouldn’t have access to.

Though there isn’t a massive amount of action in this one (as with the earlier books), the plot fizzes along at a heady pace and kept my interest from start to finish.

L. R.

Jack is BACK!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2015

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Oh, what a relief. Having read all of the Reacher books - some more than once - it is so good to have our Jack back again with 'Personal'.

The last 'decent' Reacher book was, IMO, Worth Dying For (no. 15). The others since then have left me feeling disappointed, and more than a little bereft. I missed my favourite action hero. But here he is, back again, large as life (pun intended).

I won't summarise the plot because other reviewers have done that. What I will say is that if you like your Reacher to be involved in fist fights, gun fights, and outwitting people with that oh-so-logical mind of his, then look no further.

I liked the location being moved (briefly to Paris, and then to London/Essex). I think the last time Reacher was in the UK was for The Hard Way, but that was a rural set-up, and it was good to see him in London (with some amusing, tongue-in-cheek observations about British peculiarities along the way). I know that the Reacher we know and love is the one doing his Littlest Hobo routine, moving from one US state to another, and those stories are still my favourites, but I don't think a change does any harm once in a while.

Living oop North, I don't know how realistic the Romford Boys are but really, does it matter? They made for a satisfying gang of baddies, especially 'Little' Joey who, at 6'11", is Reacher's largest adversary since (I think) the huge guy in Persuader. As someone who's never had any training in unarmed combat, nor often finds myself in situations I need to fight my way out of (thankfully), I always find the fight scenes fascinating. Lee Child is the only author I know who goes into such lengthy descriptions of a fight which only lasts for a couple of minutes maximum.

As regards the character of Casey Nice, I liked her. She was well fleshed-out and intriguing. She demonstrated that even CIA agents are human. Lee Child did a good job of keeping their relationship purely platonic/professional (the bit where Reacher has a right old perv at her arse notwithstanding). Nice is in her twenties, Reacher is in his fifties. A sexual relationship between them would have been gratuitous and inappropriate.

The reveal at the ending was a good'un - I didn't see it coming - and things were tied up nicely. All in all, a really satisfactory read. If you've not read a Reacher book before, you won't be disappointed. If you're a Reacher fan who feels he's gone off the boil of late, then take heart from him being back.

All we need now is for the next book to be Jack, on foot, righting wrongs in some dusty, sparsely-populated US state, smashing faces with his elbows and drinking gallons of coffee, for him to be right back on track. Yay!

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Don P

The final twist beat me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2021

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Written as all these books are, full of details and twists in the story. As always it is necessary to read the detail but even then I didn't foresee the final twist. Just a couple of gripes. Lee Child, the author, clearly completes a lot of research in all his stories, however as a Londoner two points clearly strand out as being wrong. The District Line on the London Underground is described as a 'Tube' train together with it's restrictions however it is one of three lines that are 'Subway' type trains. The other point being from the end of the book, Reacher is taken 70 miles to RAF Honington whose runway is non operational to get an RAF plane. The obvious destination would have been RAF Northolt near to Heathrow where the VIP transports are based. Other than that another enjoyable book.

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John Robson

Back on form

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2015

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I almost gave up on the Jack Reacher series of books around the time of "The Affair" and "A Wanted Man". I read both books and felt that Jim Grant (or Lee Child to use his pen name) was just going through the motions. "Never Go Back" was marginally better, but only just. Being at a loose end, with nothing on offer from any of my other usual authors, I took a punt on "Personal" and was delighted to see the author back on form.

This story gripped me from beginning to end and I hope this book marks a return to form for this series of novels. I don't understand why some people found it so different in feel or tone from the earlier books in the series - to me it was a return to the style of those early books. Yes, there are some implausible things going on (one of the main critiques of this book that I've seen) - but that has always been the case with Jack Reacher - at the climax of "Tripwire" (the 3rd book in the series, published all the way back in 1999) he survives an almost point-blank shot to the chest... so to criticise the implausibility of the plot devices in the newer novels seems odd to me. It's escapist fiction, and as such there will always be things which wouldn't be feasible in "the real world".

As for Reacher shunning his "lone drifter" status to work for the government, why is that getting so much flak? The character has done this on plenty of occasions before - "The Visitor" and "Without Fail" spring to mind. In short, I think most of the criticisms leveled at this book are unfair, and I enjoyed it immensely. It's not "great" literature, but it doesn't pretend to be - it's just a good escapist adventure yarn which will keep you entertained.

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