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743: 217:. The bullet was American-made. 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 elite 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. 225:. 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 Dominique Kohl, a young subordinate he once failed to save when he sent her to arrest a suspect. She was killed, and he swears it won't happen this time. 29: 205:. The novel was published on 28 August 2014 in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland, and on 2 September 2014 in the United States and Canada. The plot of the book revolves around Reacher's pursuit of a sniper who has attempted to assassinate the President of France. This book is written in the first person. 240:
Kott, White and Green were criminals, but they were not threatening the G8. O'Day wanted to use Kott simply to become more powerful politically. He had sold Reacher to him in advance. Whether the winner would be Kott or Reacher, he could have pretended to have saved the world. Reacher leaves him
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A powerful General Tom O'Day sends him undercover to Paris to discover who's behind the assassination attempt, and to save the upcoming G8 meeting which is going to be held in London. Reacher finds out that a dangerous gang using snipers – among whom there's Kott, arguably – has actually got a base
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Reacher, together with Casey Nice, manages to approach the house where Kott is being quartered, a place owned by one of White's associates, a giant called Joseph (Little Joey) Green. On the way, Reacher confronts and kills Joey, then enters the house and kills Kott, too. He is then flown back to
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If anyone can stop Kott, it's the man who beat him before: retired Military Police investigator Jack Reacher. And though he'd rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with Casey Nice, a rookie analyst who keeps her cool with
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alone, and orders him not to say a word or he would raise a scandal and ruin him. He leaves a pistol on O'Day's desk. A short time later, after he leaves town, he reads that O'Day has killed himself.
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the States to meet O'Day, the general who proposed the mission to him, not to thank him, but to unmask him.
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Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in
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Lee Child
Jack Reacher
Thriller
Bantam Press
Delacorte Press
ISBN
978-0-5930-7382-7
OCLC
883748100
Never Go Back
Make Me
Jack Reacher
Lee Child
Paris
Zoloft
Chigwell
The New York Times Best Seller list
RBA Prize for Crime Writing
Personal
Amazon.com
"Personal"
"Personal by Lee Child review – suspense thrills with Jack Reacher"
The Guardian
"'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
"British author Lee Child receives the "prestigious" RBA Prize for Crime Writing"
"Philip Kerr wins €125,000 RBA Prize for Crime Writing"
The Guardian
PERSONAL: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child

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