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Persuader
- Jack Reacher, Book 7
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Series: Jack Reacher, Book 7
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Persuader by Lee Child, read by Jeff Harding.
Never forgive, never forget. That's Jack Reacher's operating principle. And Quinn was one of the worst guys he ever had the misfortune to meet. He had done unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know Quinn was dead. Until the day he saw someone who looked an awful lot like him, alive and well, riding in a limousine outside Boston's Symphony Hall.
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- Maximuqq
- 27-02-19
Great Story, odd reading.
The story was great, the actual reading was like listening to someone reading 16hours worth of bullet points! very different reading to the other Jeff Harding performances! very odd.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-11-19
Couldn't listen for more than 10 minutes
Absolutely love Lee Child books and looked forward to picking up the series via audible as I can listen while working but the voice of the narrator was so annoying, I had to switch it off after only 10 minutes as it completely distracted me from the story. Such a shame - I will now need to wait until I have time to read the books to continue the series if this is the best audible can do.
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- Simon
- 01-09-19
It's Jack . . . Enough Said!
It's Jack, it's shotguns, it's a bunch of bad guys who have a real edge to them who get on his wrong side. Enough said. It's a very old and very bad enemy who has crossed Reacher in the past in the worst of ways. Enough said.
It's Lee Child's quick-fire and direct prose gloriously crunched into life by the gravel-throated Jeff Harding. Enough said.
This is a seriously good Reacher novel.
Enough said.
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- Mr. C. C. Lowe
- 12-07-19
A cracker of a tale.
Hugely enjoyable. I found it riveting with enough plot twists and turns to engage, thrill and excite. Highly recommended.
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- D. Sutherst
- 24-03-19
Don't listen to this if you're a bit squeamish
Narrated in his usual inimitable style Jeff Harding has taken over from R C Bray as my favourite narrator. Here Reacher shows no mercy and the kill toll keeps rising. Another great read and on to the next one . I'm hooked.
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- Glenys Jones .
- 28-04-18
excelent listen
I have listened to many of lee child Reacher books.
I very much enjoyed this one.
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- Marco Polo
- 26-05-19
This does not disappoint.
I’m on a Reacher binge: listening to them one after the other. So far, all read by Jeff Harding whose voice I’ve come to identify so strongly with Reacher that listening to a Reacher novel narrated by someone else would leave me with PTSD.
The story opens with Reacher rescuing a kid from an attempted kidnapping, but all is not what it seems. The Luddite Reacher is entrusted with a James Bond-like email device as he infiltrates a dangerous gang. Then Reacher meets his match: someone even bigger and stronger than he is! Though not as charming, and that’s an understatement.
Lots of realistic detail as usual. Lee Child does his homework. I give this 4 stars for story only because the romantic storyline didn’t convince me. An unrequited romance with the gangster’s “moll” would have been more interesting and believable. But the “moll” turns out to be another interesting and unexpected female character.
Trivium: after finishing this audio book, I listened to Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” (a marvelous narration by Jonathan Pryce) and it mentions a “persuader” - a weapon. More than 100 years before Lee Child’s book.
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- Mr Rupert Seymour
- 27-02-18
Reacher Going Over The Top With His Ego
There are many times when our hero presents an image of a man grossly in love with his vanities, his thuggishness, his virility, his guns and delighting in breaking peoples necks. Lee Child has overdeveloped this character to a point where we must question whether Child is producing bloodthirst, soft porn potboilers for the NRA. Reacher must be every feminist's bogeyman.
Reacher has become insufferable and Child isn't as good as he can be with this story. The saving grace is the top narrator Jeff Harding, without his voice acting the story would be very poor indeed. I have just re-heard this story again and winced at the bloody sadism that accompanies almost all the actions of our 6'5" hero. There is more than a touch of 'know it all', narcissistic cruelty about him. It's good to hear that his creator will be passing the responsibility to another in his family...maybe Lee Child has had enough of his creature.
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- Phil Seymour
- 08-07-18
Great story bad Narrating
great story but the Narrating was as bad as I've ever heard. very wooden ad almost ruined the book. I'd struggle to recommend this book because of this alone!
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- Squeeze1964
- 18-04-20
I said nothing !
Very long winded , the “ I said nothing “ lost count how many times this is said it’s very annoying .. story is ok but too much padding
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- Sleepless In...
- 05-01-18
narrator's reading cadence ruins whole book
after less than a minute I felt like giving up on the book... the reading sounds as if he's reading a shopping list, ending all sentences as if they're not part of a story. seriously annoying. and sadly I have more books narrated by this person.
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- Mark Brazil
- 25-02-21
The most boring delivery I’ve ever listened to.
I’ve enjoyed so many Jack Reacher books, but not this one. The reader has no variation and no emotion in his pattern of reading. He sounds bored— and now so am I. I gave up part way in to Chapter 1. I wish I could get my credit back for another book instead.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-01-21
Good listen
Best one in the series so far, really enjoyed it. It didn't take long to build up, and then kept the pace up.
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- Johan Stenshorne
- 29-08-20
Extremely monotonous performance
I love the book (i.e. the story). For me, it's one of the best Reacher books. But oh, my god. Jeff Hardings monotonous voice almost drove me mental after five minutes. He ends every single sentence the same way. The dialogue is better, but when he is Reacher as narrator, every sentence sounds identical. Dick Hill is immensely better. I wish he would record all the Lee Child books so I could avoid this absolute clown.
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- Karl
- 14-03-18
A great and a very addictive story
I have read or listened to all the Jack Reacher stories and I put this book all the way at the top. Very tense and a good build up to the final climax. A good story all in all. I especially liked the switch between the story ten years back and present.
One thing though, which in a small way was annoying, was the constantly repeating sentence “I said nothing”. I didn’t count but it must be in the 100. That being mentioned I highly recommend this book. It’s great novel and very good narration! Thanks
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- Michael A
- 15-01-18
dragged on too much
thought it would never end, narrator good. story line good but repetitive, drowning scene dragged out.