Personal (novel)

Personal

Kindle edition cover
Author Lee Child
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Jack Reacher
Genre Thriller novel
Publisher Bantam Press (UK), Delacorte Press (US)
Publication date
 28 August 2014 (UK, Ireland, NZ, Aus)
September 2, 2014 (US)
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback), Audio, eBook
Pages 416
ISBN 978-0-5930-7382-7
OCLC 883748100
Preceded by Never Go Back
Followed by Make Me

Personal is the nineteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. The novel was published on 28 August 2014 in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland, and on September 2, 2014 in the United States[1] and Canada.[2] The plot of the book revolves around Reacher's pursuit of a sniper who has attempted to assassinate the President of France.[3] This book is written in the first person.

Synopsis

Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott—an American marksman gone bad—is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he’s out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.  If anyone can stop Kott, it’s the man who beat him before: Reacher. And though he’d rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with Casey Nice, a rookie analyst who keeps her cool with Zoloft. But they’re facing a rough road, full of ruthless mobsters, Serbian thugs, close calls, double-crosses—and no backup if they’re caught. All the while Reacher can’t stop thinking about Elizabeth Deveraux, the woman he once failed to save and swears it won't happen this time. General Tom O'Day sends him undercover to Paris to discover who's behind the murder attempt; in order to find the culprit and, above all, to save the oncoming G8 meeting which is going to be held in London. Reacher finds out that the dangerous gang using snipers - among whom there's Kott, arguably - has actually got a base in London, namely in Chigwill, where Charlie White, an old man helped by a notorious gang called the *Romford Boys*, runs a bunch of gangsters who make business with serbians and now are threatening to aim higher at the G8. Reacher, together with Casey Nice, manages to approach White's general quarters, where a giant who goes by the name of Jospeh (Little Joey) Green, defends the castle. But Reacher confronts and kills Joey, enters the house and kills Kott, too; then he comes back to the States to meet O'Day, the general who proposed the mission to him; but not to thank him, but to frame him. Kott, White and Green were criminals, but they were not threatening the G8; O'Day wanted Kott simply to become more powerful politically; and he had sold Reacher to him in advance; whether the winner would be Kott or Reacher, he might have pretended to have saved the world. Reacher leaves him alone, but orders him not to say a word or he would raise a scandal and waste him; and a short time after the story he reads that O'Day has killed himself; but Reacher has already left town.


Reception

Personal topped the New York Times Best Sellers list of combined print and e-book fiction books for the week of September 21, 2014.[4]

It won the 2014 RBA International Prize for Crime Writing,[5] a Spanish literary award said to be the world's most lucrative crime fiction prize at €125,000.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Personal. Amazon.com.
  2. ↑ "Personal". Leechild.com
  3. ↑ Stephen Poole (6 September 2014). "Personal by Lee Child review – suspense thrills with Jack Reacher". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ Somosot, Janice. "'Personal' By Lee Child Tops The New York Times Best Sellers List Of Combined Print And E-Book Fiction For The Week Of Sept. 21, 2014". ibtimes.com. Retrieved 2014-10-12.
  5. ↑ "British author Lee Child receives the "prestigious" RBA Award for Crime Writing". Catalan News Agency. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Giles Tremlett (3 September 2009). "Philip Kerr wins €125,000 RBA crime writing prize". The Guardian. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
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