LEE CHILD
Jack gets personal with rogue sniper

Myles McWeeney on the latest Reacher novel from Lee Child, already lined up for a Tom Cruise movie

Personal is the latest story in the highly successful series of adventures penned by British-born author Lee Child about Jack Reacher, a former hard man in the US Military Police who, by his own choice, became a rootless drifter roaming America righting wrongs and dispensing his own frequently lethal form of justice. 

In this story he is in Seattle when the army reaches out to him. An expert sniper has a shot at the French president and the army brass suspects the shooter could be a former American Special Operations operative called John Kott. Reacher and Kott have history, because 16 years ago Reacher had tracked him down and put him in prison after he had committed a rather messy murder. The army wants him to do that all over again.

Reacher is sent across the Atlantic in the company of a young female CIA operative called Casey Nice, first to France to assess the scene of the unsuccessful assassination attempt, and then to London, where a G8 Summit is due to be held which will be attended by the President of the United States.

The US military are convinced Kott is targeting a head of state at the G8 Summit, but Reacher has come to realise that Kott is actually seeking revenge for the 15 years he has spent in prison and that he himself is the real target. Reacher discovers that Kott is in the employ of Little Joey, a vicious London crime lord, and to flush him out into the open he must penetrate the crime boss's secure base.

Packed with arcane and fascinating detail about the mechanics of sniping and a whole range of other subjects, 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

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